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”
Category Archives: Lifeworld
Ontological Metalepsis
RELATED TERMS: Avant-garde movements; Deixis and Deictic Acts; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Metalepsis; Storyworld; Tangled Hierarchy and Strange Loop The notion of ontological metalepsis is particularly important for design practices as it emphasises that meaning is generated through the engagement of the sensorimotor, experiential, existential, moving body with the designed objects, services and environments. Metalepsis,Continue reading “Ontological Metalepsis”
Lifeworld – Lebenswelt
RELATED TERMS: Affordances; Arendt; Dasein; Design History; Diégèse and Diegesis; The Everyday and Design; Metalepsis; Ontological Designing; Ontological Metalepsis; Phenomenology; Storyworld; World; World-Building “Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” Chief Seattle Designs, particularly within the approach of theContinue reading “Lifeworld – Lebenswelt”
The Commodity
RELATED TERMS: Alienation; Reification; Historical materialism – Marxism “A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.” Marx (1976: 163) “The belief systems of consumption and commodity have been exposed as empty.” (Brody, 2010)Continue reading “The Commodity”
Ecology and Economy
RELATED TERMS: Human Ecosystem; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Systems Theory “The economist Kate Raworth believes she has a solution. It is possible, she argues, to design an economy that allows humans and the environment to thrive.” (O’Brien, 2023) The Greek word oikos, meaning whole house or household, lies at the root of both the notionsContinue reading “Ecology and Economy”
World
RELATED TERMS: Dau Project; Diegese and Diegesis; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Storyworld; “these three types of world — the world, my world and a contained world-like domain — are often difficult to distinguish.” (Gaston, 2013: x) “Every human lives in a world”. (Reed, 2021) “the word ‘world’ constantly shifts between its cosmological, ontological, theological,Continue reading “World”
World-Building
RELATED TERMS: Arendt; Design of Narrative Environments; Global Challenges; Heidegger; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Ontology; Sloterdijk; Terraforming; Theoretical Practice; World; World-as-Milieu Use for: World-forming, World-making, Worlding, World-shaping, Welt-Bilden “the last man will save from the rubble a stool or a tree stump on which to rest from his labours …” (Cliff and De Chabaneix,Continue reading “World-Building”
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