RELATED TERMS: Narratology “as Arendt puts it, ‘real stories, in distinction from those we invent, have no author.’ ” (Batuman, 2008) 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,Continue reading “Econarratology”
Category Archives: Design and Narrative
Narrative Environments
RELATED TERMS: Design of Narrative Environments; Narrative Environments – Celia Pearce; Narrative Environments – Environmental Psychology in Architecture “Every story is a travel story – a spatial practice.” (De Certeau, 1984:115) A narrative environment is a many-dimensional, orientational interface. In one direction, it makes the world comprehensible and navigable. In another direction, it opens upContinue reading “Narrative Environments”
Fiction
RELATED TERMS: (Of) Grammatography NOVELS Pervert the masses. Less immoral in serial form than when published in hardback. Only historical novels ought to be allowed, because they teach history. The Three Musketeers for instance. Some novels are written with the tip of a scalpel (Madame Bovary, for example). Some are built on the point ofContinue reading “Fiction”
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”
Story (fabula) and Plot (sjuzet)
RELATED TERMS: In medias res; Genre; Tragic theatre – Aristotle; Defamiliarisation, Ostranenie or making strange; Narratology; Montage, Collage, Assemblage and Bricolage Design practices, it is argued, would do well to consider the notions of story, plot, chronology, de-chronologisation and teleology (end, goal or purpose), in the contexts of the narrative unfolding (intelligibility) and environmental navigationContinue reading “Story (fabula) and Plot (sjuzet)”
Enaction Paradigm – Cognitive Science
RELATED TERMS: Body; Exosomatisation; Ontological Metalepsis; Sensorimotor System; Somatosensory System; World-building Enaction, as a programme for understanding cognition, was initially articulated in 1991 by Varela, Thompson and Rosch (2016). This programme breaks with the formalisms of the information-processing and symbolic representation approaches previously prevalent in cognitive science. Instead, cognition is taken to be grounded inContinue reading “Enaction Paradigm – Cognitive Science”
Semiotic Square
RELATED TERMS: Actantial Model – Greimas; In Medias Res “How can one apply the semiotic square to the analysis of a non-Western and/or noncontemporary text, if the framework of meaning in which this text is usually read, for instance native American cosmologies, systematically disregards that principle of dialectic opposition on which the semiotic square is essentiallyContinue reading “Semiotic Square”
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