Design Fictions Week 3

MEDIATING THINGS

Remember to use:

Writing / Editing Guidelines

posted on the Design Fictions blog:

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Design understood as set of capacities

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URRICULUM YEAR 1

Those to do with organizing/planning:Programming SchematicsScenarios

Those to do with mediating and attuning our relationships:Negotiation Resonance

Those to do with moving from existing to preferred situations:Translation(Re-)Configuration

Those involved in bringing something new into the world:PropositionsAesthetic Discovery

Real Presences, George Steiner• In short, I am construing a society, a politics of the

primary; of immediacies in respect of texts, works of art, and musical compositions. (6)

• Interpretive response under pressure of enactment I shall, using a dated word, call answerability. The authentic experience of understanding, when we are spoken to by another human being or by a poem [or an object], is one of responding responsibility. (8)

{mediation}

• … where [artists/designers/writers] incorporate, quote, distort, fragment or transmute motifs, passages, representational and formal configurations from another [source]..these are vitalizing responsions which our citizens of the immediate will look for.

• (Steiner, 17)

What Things DoPeter-Paul Verbeek

• KEY IDEAS:• agency• intentionality• aesthetics• product semantics• mediation • multi-stability of objects• co-creation

• TOWARD a theory of the moral agency of things

How Fiction Works, James Wood“thisness”

• By thisness, I mean any detail that draws abstraction toward itself and seems to kill that abstraction with a puff of palpability, any detail that centers our attention with its concretion. (67)

• “There is a part of everything which is unexplored, because we are accustomed to using our eyes only in association with the memory of what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at . Even the smallest thing has something in it which is unknown.” (Letter from Gustave Flaubert to Guy de Maupassant, 1870)

• From How Fiction Works, 73.

Why do I exist?What’s different about me?

Abelardo Morell, b. 1948-