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RELATED TERMS: Realism; World, World of the Story and World of the Narrative Environment An interesting question for the narrative environment designer is: to what extent was the Dau project, enacted in 2009-2011, and reiterated in 2019, a narrative environment? It also raises, obliquely, the question of the boundaries between (voluntary) ‘participation’ and (involuntary) ‘subjection’ particularly, asContinue reading “Dau Project”

RELATED TERMS: Design, Entwurf, Entwerfen; Storyworld; Everyday; Present-at-hand (Vorhanden) and Ready-to-hand (Zuhanden); Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Modernism; Philosophy; Sloterdijk; Heidegger; Nietzsche “There is a Dasein whose thrownness consists precisely in the overcoming of its thrownness.” Herbert Marcuse (2005, 1928: 32). As one particular understanding or interpretation of ‘lifeworld’ or ‘being-in-the-world’ or, indeed, the everyday,Continue reading “Dasein”

USE for: Taoism RELATED TERMS: The notion of dao (tao), in as far as it indicates a path, a way or a set of principles, may have importance for considering the kind of pathway or passage that occurs in a narrative environment. Also, reference to the dao is important in highlighting that a narrative environment is always, to someContinue reading “Daoism”

RELATED TERMS: Feminism and Materialism; Historical Materialism – Marxism; Methodology and Method; Modernity and Coloniality; Postmodernism For narrative environment design, cultural studies is an important area of research because, like narrative environments, it is inherently interdisciplinary, or perhaps transdisciplinary, and because of its emphasis upon social practices, including spatial practices. There is therefore a lotContinue reading “Cultural Studies”

USE for: Human geography, Social geography RELATED TERMS: Geography; Scape metaphors; Anthropo-Scenes Those parts of the discipline of geography which are of most value to narrative environment design and analysis are cultural geography, human geography or social geography. According to Merle Patchett (2010), three eras of cultural geography can be identified: the traditional; the new;Continue reading “Cultural Geography”

RELATED TERMS: Avant-garde movements; Feminism – Material feminism While themes derived from avant-garde art practice may be of relevance to design practices, of potentially more interest may be those practices of the feminist avant-garde. In confronting an oppressive and conformist patriarchal system prevalent in the in the immediate post-World War Two years, feminist artists developedContinue reading “Feminist Avant-Garde Art Practices”

RELATED TERMS: Arendt; Creative Thinking; Critical Theory; Design Practice and Functionalism; Feminism and Materialism; Genealogy – Nietzsche; Historical Materialism – Marxism; Methodology and Method; Modernism and Avant-Garde Art Practice; Modernity; Postmodernism; Theoretical Practice; Critical thinking in the West can be traced back back to the Socratic-Platonic tradition, with Plato formalising the Socratic critique of receivedContinue reading “Critical Thinking”

RELATED TERMS: Avant-Garde Movements; Critical Thinking; Methodology and Method; Situationist International; Theoretical Practice; Design requires critical thinking and creative thinking, but does it need critical theory, in the more narrow sense? Bohman (2005) explains that critical theory in the narrow sense designates several generations of German philosophers and social theorists in the Western European MarxistContinue reading “Critical Theory”

RELATED TERMS: Critical Thinking; Design of Narrative Environments; Design Practice and Functionalism; Theoretical Practice “Above all, and very familiar by now, is the view that critical and creative writing have become one and are indistinguishable.” (Brooke-Rose, 1991: 19) While a design may serve a critical purpose, it does so creatively, so to speak. Designing, therefore,Continue reading “Creative Thinking”

RELATED TERMS: Rodgers, Inella and Bremner (2017) discuss seven paradoxes of design practice, which they characterise as follows: Design is very undisciplined as a discipline The easier it becomes to design, the harder it is to design Design has become impoverished by the claim that good design equals good business The originality claimed by designContinue reading “Design Paradoxes”