RELATED TERMS: Design History; Iconic Designs, Critical Designs “Kenya Hara is a design icon.” (Design Intaba, 2004) Design is often spoken of in terms of ‘iconic’ designs[1] and ‘iconic’ designers. ‘Iconic’ designs are discussed frequently in terms of individual entities – ‘things’. ‘Iconic’ designers are individual, named designers – ‘persons’. ‘Iconic’ designs are most often productContinue reading “Iconic Designs and Iconic Designers”
Category Archives: Design as Material Public Discourse
Technology, Writing, Design
RELATED TERMS: Design, Entwurf, Entwerfen One area to be explored and developed in understanding design practices in the 21st century are the relationships among the notions of writing, technology and design. To what extent is the understanding of designing and designs aided by considering them as practices of writing and as bodies of writing, onContinue reading “Technology, Writing, Design”
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”
Theoretical Practice
RELATED TERMS: Actor Network Theory; Avant-Garde Movements; Cinema and Film Theory; Creative Thinking; Critical Theory; Critical Thinking; Design and Theory: Total Design; Design History; Design Practice and Functionalism; Heidegger; Interaction Design; Methodology and Method; Open Systems Theory; Postmodernism; Poststructuralism; Practice; Sculpture; Sloterdijk; World-Building It could be argued that a design, in bringing theory together withContinue reading “Theoretical Practice”
Ontological Designing
RELATED TERMS: Design History; Design Practice and Functionalism; Genealogy – Nietzsche; Latour; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Object-Oriented Ontology; Ontological Turn; Ontology In The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, Martin Heidegger writes that, “The point is not to gain some knowledge about philosophy but to be able to philosophise.” If, to paraphrase Heidegger, the point is notContinue reading “Ontological Designing”
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”
Things
RELATED TERMS: Collecting; Defamiliarisation; Events; Material Culture; New Materialism; Representation; Tangled Hierarchy and Strange Loop “the thing really names less an object than a particular subject-object relation.” (Brown, 2001: 4) “Thing theory is at its best … when it focuses on this sense of failure, or partial failure, to name or to classify. Thing theoryContinue reading “Things”
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