RELATED TERMS: Afrofuturism; Afro-Pessimism; Critical Race Theory; Identity Politics; Whiteness Studies Beginning in the 1970s and continuing through the 1980s, critical legal scholars, such as Richard Delgado, Patricia Williams, Mari Matsuda and Alan Freeman, began publishing work that developed the discourse around race, power and law. Together, they advanced the idea that the law, ratherContinue reading “Intersectionality”
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Cyborg Anthropology
RELATED TERMS: Anthropology; Actor-Network Theory; Ethnomethodology; Avatar A cyborg anthropologist looks at how humans and non human objects interact with each other, and how that changes culture. Another aspect of cyborg anthropology concerns how the self can be extended, doubled or multiplied, online, through identification with an avatar. This, in turn, opens to the studyContinue reading “Cyborg Anthropology”
Avatar
RELATED TERMS: The word avatar has a number of definitions, for example, it may mean the incarnation of a Hindu deity, especially Vishnu, in human or animal form; an incarnate divine teacher; an embodiment or manifestation, as of a quality or concept; a temporary manifestation or aspect of a continuing entity; or an icon, graphicContinue reading “Avatar”
Design: Dramatisation and Narrativisation
RELATED TERMS: Theatre; Epic Theatre; Tragic Theatre – Aristotle; Theatre of Cruelty “The tension between the endless desire that is the source of human motivations and the hopeless demands that fail to appease it is the very heart of the human tragedy, according to Lacan.” Mansfield, 2000: 46) In as far as designs intervene inContinue reading “Design: Dramatisation and Narrativisation”
Afrofuturism
RELATED TERMS: Afro-Pessimism; Black Studies; Critical Race Theory; Intersectionality; Identity Politics Afrofuturism has been defined as a cultural aesthetic that combines science-fiction, history and fantasy. It aims to connect those from the black diaspora with their forgotten African ancestry (Tate, No Date). ‘The Comet,’ a short story by W. E. B. DuBois that represents DuBois’ forayContinue reading “Afrofuturism”
Design: Incomplete Conjectures
RELATED TERMS: Finnegans Wake (and Design); Methodology and Method First … Design as a professional, social practice has historically been divided according to its material outputs, its concrete products, using categories that have become conventional. For example, jewellery design produces items of jewellery, fashion design produces items of clothing and architectural design produces buildings andContinue reading “Design: Incomplete Conjectures”
Incompletion
RELATED TERMS: Collage, Montage, Assemblage and Bricolage; Sabi and Wabi-Sabi USE FOR: Incompleteness “Abstraction and perfection transport us into the world of ideas, whereas matter, weathering and decay strengthen the experience of time, causality and reality.” (Pallasmaa, 2000: 79) As noted in the About page, the approach to design taken in this website is guided byContinue reading “Incompletion”
Hypomnesis, Hypermnesis and Anamnesis
RELATED TERMS: Remembering: Mnemotechne, Mnemonics and Memory; [Of] Grammatography; Exosomatisation Design practices and designed artefacts may be understood in the context of the discussion of hypomnesis, the weakening of memory, and hypermnesis, the strengthening of memory or the making of an unusually poignant and accurate memory of the past. In Platonic language the relation betweenContinue reading “Hypomnesis, Hypermnesis and Anamnesis”
Black Mountain College
RELATED TERMS: Bauhaus; Hochschule fur Gestaltung Black Mountain College was an experimental liberal arts college in Black Mountain, near Asheville, North Carolina. It was founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice and Theodore Dreier and other former faculty members of Rollins College in Florida. It was “the site of a crucial transatlantic dialogue between EuropeanContinue reading “Black Mountain College”
Khora or Chora
RELATED TERMS: Place, Space, Placiality, Spatiality In philosophy, the term khôra or chora is associated with four main authors: Plato, Heidegger, Derrida and Kristeva. In the context of developing an understanding of design as practice, discipline and material public discourse, that is, as professional, academic and socio-cultural practice at once, khôra or chora is takenContinue reading “Khora or Chora”
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