RELATED TERMS: Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Control The question underlying this post is whether design practices are carried along by the shift proposed by Byung-Chul Han (2015), the impetus coming from elsewhere, or are they highly active proponents and drivers of the change, providing the materials for depressive evaluations of oneself, compulsive inattentiveness orContinue reading “Burnout Society”
Category Archives: Environmental Perception
Narrative Environments – Lynchian Set Design
RELATED TERMS: Actant; Defamiliarisation; Liminality; Design, the Buddhisms, Geo-Politics and Geo-Economics According to Edwin Heathcote (2025), the interiors in David Lynch’s films suggest that, “our environment is somehow theatrical, temporary, a dream – an expression of the subconscious.” Lynch, while working with production designers, “conceived of these rooms as spaces with every bit as muchContinue reading “Narrative Environments – Lynchian Set Design”
Situationist International
RELATED TERMS: Dérive; Détournement; Spectacle – Society of the Spectacle; Walking; Of particular interest to design practices, in the context of the relations among art practices, aesthetic practices and everyday action, is the Situationist International and its forerunner, the Lettriste International. Bonnet (1992: 76) considers that the most determined challenge to the categories of artContinue reading “Situationist International”
Object-Oriented Ontology
RELATED TERMS: Actor-Network Theory; New Materialism; Ontological Designing; Postanthropocentrism; Posthuman; Posthumanism; Speculative Realism; As an inheritor of the line of thinking developed by actor-network theory, on the one hand, and phenomenology, on the other hand, object-oriented ontology (OOO) may be of interest to design practices in as far as it concerns the relationship between theContinue reading “Object-Oriented Ontology”
Human Ecosystem
RELATED TERMS: Anthropocene – Capitalocene – Chthulucene; Plantationocene; Ecology and Economy Systems as small as a household or as large as a nation state may be discussed as a human ecosystem. Human ecosystems interact in a complex web of human and ecological relationships, connecting human ecosystems to the biosphere. Human ecosystems have so thoroughly pervadedContinue reading “Human Ecosystem”
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”
Affordances
RELATED TERMS: Actantiality; Disciplinary societies and Societies of control; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Methodology and Method; New Materialism; Phenomenology; The notion of affordance is important for design practices as it emphasises the active nature of perception; the importance of the moving body in perception; the co-constitution of the human, the environmental, the ecological and the economic;Continue reading “Affordances”
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