Have just been dipping into Lawson’s ‘What Designers Know’ and thinking about my research topic with respect to how he discusses the role and practice of brief writing. For my job talk at Parsons I presented my research interests as essentially framed by a brief—with consideration for the objective, audience etc. Revisiting this it seems [...]
I spoke with Cameron earlier in the week — hoping that a conversation with a philosopher might help shed some light on how this Ontological Designing business relates to my topic. I am not going to pretend to understand the point he was making about how Heidegger was concerned with revelation instead of representation (something [...]
Following on from an earlier post I wanted to continue reflecting upon what it means for my visualisation practice to be understood as ‘designed to design.’ In Ontological Designing Willis refers to this concept by referencing Heidegger’s Building Dwelling Thinking. Willis accounts for how designing can be seen as an ontological feature of buildings—observing that [...]
Have been reading Ontological Designing by Anne-Marie Willis (the co-editor of Design Philosophy Papers) and given my near allergic reaction to philosophical theory I was surprised to find it making some sense to me. Of course I didn’t really get my head around the ‘thinging’ and ‘worlding’ language, but the basic notion of a hermeneutic [...]