Design as Academic Discipline

Finnegans Wake (and Design)

RELATED TERMS: Design: Incomplete Conjectures “The Wake, fin negans, begets only beginnings but invalidates all origins…” (Rabaté, 1984: 79) In the understanding of design being constructed in the Incomplete … website, design can be grasped in four main modalities: as a set of professional practices, sub-divided by (industrial era and digital era) designed outputs; as academicContinue reading “Finnegans Wake (and Design) “

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”

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”

Hochschule für Gestaltung

RELATED TERMS: Bauhaus; Black Mountain College; Deutscher Werkbund The Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm (Ulm Institute of Design) was founded in 1953. It closed in 1968 amid the cultural and political upheaval of the period. What made Ulm special was the idea that design should be understood and practiced as a socially relevant and ultimatelyContinue reading “Hochschule für Gestaltung”

Global Challenges – Learning

RELATED TERMS: Global Challenges; Wicked Problems – Wicked Challenges According to Nicholas Maxwell (2021), humanity is confronted by two great challenges of learning: learning about the universe; and about ourselves and other living things as a part of the universe; and learning how to create civilisation. The first challenge, Maxwell contends, has been addressed by modernContinue reading “Global Challenges – Learning”

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”