Design as Professional Practice

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”

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”