Category Archives: Design and Philosophy

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”

Global Challenges

Related Terms: Wicked Problems – Wicked Challenges; World-Building  “We are confronted in the twenty-first century with an array of serious problems but among them two immense challenges stand out: on the one hand, those problems presented by carbon technologies, and, on the other hand, those posed by silicon technologies.” (Daniel Ross, 2019) In the philosophyContinue reading “Global Challenges”