RELATED TERMS: Deutscher Werkbund; Distribution of the Sensible – Ranciere; Worldlessness #2: Worldlessness and Design In the context of design practice, design theory and design history, the essay, ‘The Surface of Design’, by Jacques Ranciere is highly relevant. What interests Ranciere when he speaks of design is the way in which one sense of theContinue reading “The Surface of Design – Ranciere [Footnotes] “
Category Archives: Design Theory
Worldlessness #2: Worldlessness and Design
The text discusses the significance of contemporary design practices, particularly focusing on world-building as a vital approach for shaping societal values and ideologies. It explores the interplay between design, modernity, and worldlessness, proposing a shift from traditional world-making to envisioning worldlessness without apocalyptic implications, challenging designers to rethink their creative responsibilities.
The Everyday and Design
RELATED TERMS: Alltäglichkeit; Dasein; De Certeau; Feminism and Materialism; Heidegger; Lefebvre; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt; Modernism; Sabi and Wabi-Sabi; Situationist International Use for: le quotidien “Ordinary life, [Barry Cryer] used to say, is badly written, so he infused it with jokes.” (Andrew Martin, 2023) “Design and the everyday are inextricably intertwined. Because it plays such aContinue reading “The Everyday 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”
Philosophy
RELATED TERMS: Design and Philosophy; Design practice and Functionalism; Phenomenology; Genealogy – Nietzsche; Heidegger; Human Actantiality; Dasein; Epistemology; Ontology; Poeisis; Nihilism “Where to begin in philosophy has always – rightly – been regarded as a very delicate problem, for beginning means eliminating all presuppositions.” (Gilles Deleuze, 1994: 129) “The point is not to gain someContinue reading “Philosophy”
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”
Design History
RELATED TERMS: Design and Theory: Total Design, Total Theory; Design History and Racialism [Footnote]; Design Practice and Functionalism; Iconic Designs and Iconic Designers; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Modernism; Modernity; Ontological Designing; Theoretical Practice; “Every age has its own distinctive building type. For the 19th century it was the railway station, for the 20th centuryContinue reading “Design History”
Design Thinking
RELATED TERMS: Design thinking is a human-centric approach to assist businesses to improve their existing products and generate new ideas about possible products and services. It is a creative approach to problem solving. Although not invented by IDEO, it has come to be closely associated with the five-step method developed by that design practice. AnContinue reading “Design Thinking”
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