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”
Category Archives: Design Contexts
Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Control
RELATED TERMS: Affordances; Apparatus – Dispositif; Biopolitics and Biopower; Body; Burnout Society; Fordism and Post-Fordism; Libidinal Economy Environmental design outputs, such as narrative environments, could be said to form domains or territories with their own characteristic habits, rules, regulations and laws, a kind of ‘world’ or ‘universe’. In order to develop a sense of howContinue reading “Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Control”
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”
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”
Anthropocene – Capitalocene – Chthulucene; Plantationocene
RELATED TERMS: Anthropo-Scenes; Human Ecosystem; Postanthropocentrism; Posthuman; Posthumanism; Symbiocene; World; World-as-Milieu; World-Building “the Earth … is leaving the relatively stable and benign state that is known as the Holocene, the geological period of the last 11,700 or so years which is now retrospectively perceived as a rather unique period, the rare ‘long summer’ (Fagan 2004,Continue reading “Anthropocene – Capitalocene – Chthulucene; Plantationocene”
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