RELATED TERMS: Hypomnesis, Hypermnesis and Anamnesis; Methodology and Method; Practice Dan Wang (2025: 71) distinguishes among three meanings of technology. The first is technologies as tools, for example, the pots, pans, knives, ovens and so on required to prepare a meal. Second, technologies can operate as explicit means of instruction, for example, the recipes, blueprintsContinue reading “Technology, Process Knowledge, Temporality and Design”
Category Archives: Methodology
Snippet Methodology [Snippets 8]
RELATED TERMS: Collage, Montage, Assemblage and Bricolage; Large Language Models Roger Berkowitz (2024) sets out a warning of the limitations of snippets if taken as a sole, self-contained method without a framing methodology. He says in an interview, “if I wanna cite a quote about freedom I can just say “Google, find me a quoteContinue reading “Snippet Methodology [Snippets 8]”
Snippet Methodology: Authoring-Curating [Snippets 4]
RELATED TERMS: Collage, Montage, Assemblage and Bricolage Thrownness, Givenness, Foundness In his book Reality Hunger (2010), part of David Shields’ argument is that non-fiction is better adapted than fiction to address the realities of the modern world (Morrison, 2019). In the book, he defended his habit of quoting authors without attribution as a principled standContinue reading “Snippet Methodology: Authoring-Curating [Snippets 4]”
Deconstruction – Derrida
RELATED TERMS: Heidegger; “Deconstruction is inventive or it is nothing at all; it does not settle for methodical procedures, it opens up a passageway, it marches ahead and marks a trail; its writing is not only performative, it produces rules — other conventions — for new performativities and never installs itself in the theoretical assuranceContinue reading “Deconstruction – Derrida”
Collage, Montage, Assemblage and Bricolage
RELATED TERMS: Narrative Architecture; Incompletion “Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s [novel] The Pledge (1958) … is about the inability of an ‘expert system’ (the police) to solve the ‘problem’, that is, a mysterious crime. Dürrenmatt’s work is all about the demise of rationality and the triumph of chaos. Acknowledging this tragic fact, my book [What Design Can’t Do]Continue reading “Collage, Montage, Assemblage and Bricolage”
Narratology
RELATED TERMS: Actantial model – Greimas; Architecture; Reception Theory and Reader-Response Criticism; Story (fabula) and Plot (sjuzet or sjuzhet); Structuralism; Telos and Teleology “The study of narrative has become so popular that the French have honored it with a term – la narratologie. … Modern narratology combines two powerful intellectual trends: the Anglo-American inheritance ofContinue reading “Narratology”
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 of Narrative Environments
RELATED TERMS: Design Practice and Functionalism; Human Actantiality; Latour; Methodology and Method; Modernity; Narrative Environments; Narrative Environments – Celia Pearce; Narrative Environments – Environmental Psychology in Architecture; Ontological Designing; World-Building The design of narrative environments, as a field of practice, is an example of research-led or research-informed designing. It may also be a means ofContinue reading “Design of Narrative Environments”
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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