RELATED TERMS: Design of Narrative Environments; Narrative Environments; Narrative Environments – Environmental Psychology in Architecture 1 Arendt’s phenomenological method Hannah Arendt seldom referred to herself as a phenomenologist and she is not usually included in textbook treatments of the subject (Moran, 2000: 287). She had no particular interest in the phenomenological method and did not explicitlyContinue reading “Arendt, Phenomenology and the Design of Narrative Environments [Essays]”
Category Archives: Design and Philosophy
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]”
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”
Realism
RELATED TERMS: Actant; Audience; Defamiliarisation; Dau Project; Humanism; Posthumanism; “The essence of realism … is the distance taken with regard to stories, to their temporal schemes and their sequences of causes and effects. Realism opposes situations that endure to stories that link together and pass from one to the next.” (Ranciere, 2013: 7) “Stories demandContinue reading “Realism”
Philosophy
RELATED TERMS: Design and Philosophy; Design practice and Functionalism; Phenomenology; Genealogy – Nietzsche; Heidegger; Human Actantiality; Dasein; Epistemology; Ontology; Poeisis; Nihilism “Where to begin in philosophy has always – rightly – been regarded as a very delicate problem, for beginning means eliminating all presuppositions.” (Gilles Deleuze, 1994: 129) “The point is not to gain someContinue reading “Philosophy”
Methodology and Method
RELATED TERMS: Affordances; Avant-garde movements; Critical Theory; Critical thinking; Cultural Studies; Dissensus – Ranciere; Ethnomethodology; Feminism and Materialism; Historical materialism – Marxism; Multimodal research; Ontology; Performance and Performativity; Postmodernism; Poststructuralism; Psychogeography; Research Methodologies; Storyworld; Theoretical Practice; Wicked Problems – Wicked Challenges “philosophers and literary theorists frequently refer to theories as stories (in this story we have to acceptContinue reading “Methodology and Method”
Design, Entwurf, Entwerfen
RELATED TERMS: Dasein; Technology, Writing, Design; Libidinal Economy – Part 1; Before-After-Thought In James Joyce’s terms, thrownness, or living in the wake, is expressed as, “from the night we are and feel and fade with to the yesterselves we tread to turnupon” (FW473. I0-11, quoted by Heath,1984). Design Projection In relation to the potential of designContinue reading “Design, Entwurf, Entwerfen”
Design and Philosophy
RELATED TERMS: Artifactuality and Actuvirtuality; Philosophy “Our thoughts install us in a real fiction.” (Dubreuil, 2015: 75) “Teaching philosophy in art school means devoting oneself to a method of a particular kind, given that the students’ main activity is not to practice philosophy but rather art or design.” (Dautrey, 2020) Through the gradual complexification ofContinue reading “Design and Philosophy”
[Of] Grammatography
RELATED TERMS: Exosomatisation; Remembering: Mnemotechne, Mnemonics and Memory; Hypomnesis, Hypermnesis and Anamnesis; Design, Entwurf, Entwerpen; Fiction “…the pharmakon of writing is good for hypomnesis (re-memoration, recollection, consignation) and not for mneme (living, knowing memory) that Thamus, in the Phaedrus, condemns … as being of little worth.” Derrida, J. (1981). Dissemination. London, UK: Athlone Press, p.91 According to Christopher Johnson (2013), Bernard Stiegler reformulatesContinue reading “[Of] Grammatography”
Phenomenology
RELATED TERMS: Affordances; Arendt; Feminism and Materialism; Heidegger; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Ontology; Philosophy; Place, Space, Placiality, Spatiality; Present-at-hand (Vorhanden) and Ready-to-hand (Zuhanden); If it is accepted that the human is one of the main constituents or domains of actantiality in the realisation of a design, then the relevance of phenomenology becomes apparent, asContinue reading “Phenomenology”
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