RELATED TERMS: Narratology The question underlying this post is the issue of what an adequate narratology would be for the practice of the design of narrative environments, an approach to designing that emphasises the (necessary) inter-relationships among people, narratives and environments. In this context, the potential value of econarratology can be seen in three respects. Firstly,Continue reading “Econarratology”
Category Archives: Design and Environment
Sloterdijk and the Design of Narrative Environments [Essays]
RELATED TERMS: Design of Narrative Environments; Narrative Environments; Narrative Environments – Environmental Psychology in Architecture 1. Envelopes Bruno Latour points out that when it is said that ‘Dasein is thrown into the world’ [1], as does Heidegger, the significance of the preposition ‘into’ is often overlooked. Peter Sloterdijk, however, Latour notes, does not overlook it and indeedContinue reading “Sloterdijk and the Design of Narrative Environments [Essays]”
Terraforming
RELATED TERMS: World-building The name of the architectural practice, Terreform, was derived from the combination of “terre”, meaning earth or soil, and “reform”, meaning to rebuild, reconstruct or recreate. The founders sought to differentiate their practice from that of “terraforming”. In planetary engineering, terraforming is a process of transforming an alien atmosphere to create a habitableContinue reading “Terraforming”
Situationist International
RELATED TERMS: Dérive; Détournement; Spectacle – Society of the Spectacle; Walking; Of particular interest to design practices, in the context of the relations among art practices, aesthetic practices and everyday action, is the Situationist International and its forerunner, the Lettriste International. Bonnet (1992: 76) considers that the most determined challenge to the categories of artContinue reading “Situationist International”
Place, Space, Placiality, Spatiality
RELATED TERMS: Body; Khora or Chora; Phenomenology; Time Place Places are events; they ‘take place’ over extended periods of time. Places are sensible, perceivable by the senses, and intelligible, existing in thought, in the imagination and in the memory. They also constitute a third order, khôra or chora, an interval between the sensible and theContinue reading “Place, Space, Placiality, Spatiality”
Object-Oriented Ontology
RELATED TERMS: Actor-Network Theory; New Materialism; Ontological Designing; Postanthropocentrism; Posthuman; Posthumanism; Speculative Realism; As an inheritor of the line of thinking developed by actor-network theory, on the one hand, and phenomenology, on the other hand, object-oriented ontology (OOO) may be of interest to design practices in as far as it concerns the relationship between theContinue reading “Object-Oriented Ontology”
Niche
RELATED TERMS: Ecology and Economy; Environment; Habitat Two ecological terms which may be of particular signficance for design practices are habitat and niche. Odum distinguishes the two terms in the following way: “The ecological niche of an organism depends not only on where it lives but also on what it does. By analogy, it may beContinue reading “Niche”
Interaction Design
RELATED TERMS: Actant; Actantiality; Performance and Performativity; “If it is understood that all use is interaction, then all design is inter-active design”. (Taylor, 2013: 370) Interaction, a mutual and progressive exchange between two or more entities, human or otherwise, is a key feature of designed environments. The overall pattern of this interaction may be calledContinue reading “Interaction Design”
Human Ecosystem
RELATED TERMS: Anthropocene – Capitalocene – Chthulucene; Plantationocene; Ecology and Economy Systems as small as a household or as large as a nation state may be discussed as a human ecosystem. Human ecosystems interact in a complex web of human and ecological relationships, connecting human ecosystems to the biosphere. Human ecosystems have so thoroughly pervadedContinue reading “Human Ecosystem”
Environment
RELATED TERMS: Habitat; Niche; World Environment is the name given to the outcome of the active processes of environing, which create an immunological sphere, in Sloterdijk’s terms, and which thereby create a meaningful context for the actants who are engaged in creating, sustaining and changing it. Environment, in this sense, is close to the notions of habitatContinue reading “Environment”
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