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: Everyday
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”
Sabi and Wabi-Sabi
RELATED TERMS: Avant-Garde Movements; The Everyday and Design; Mono No Aware and Ma; Incompletion “Thirty spokes are joined together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that allows the wheel to function. We mold clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that makes the vessel useful. We fashion wood forContinue reading “Sabi and Wabi-Sabi”
Realism
RELATED TERMS: Actant; Audience; Defamiliarisation; Dau Project; Humanism; Posthumanism; “The essence of realism … is the distance taken with regard to stories, to their temporal schemes and their sequences of causes and effects. Realism opposes situations that endure to stories that link together and pass from one to the next.” (Ranciere, 2013: 7) “Stories demandContinue reading “Realism”
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