CCDN 231 2011 Lecture 11

what do you see, think, feel, smell, hear, experience or understand?

to understand something is not to be able to define it or describe it. instead, taking something that we think we already know and making it unknown thrills us with its reality and deepens our understanding of it.

kenya hara

everything has potential

meaning

everyday acts

To be modern is to live a life of paradox and contradiction. The essential thing is to look

for beauty where it is not supposed to be found.

To be modern is to live a life of paradox and contradiction. The essential thing is to look

for beauty where it is not supposed to be found.

To be modern is to live a life of paradox and contradiction. The essential thing is to look for beauty

where it is not supposed to be

found.

design research

what is research ?

what is research ? a systematic enquiry, the goal of which is knowledge’design research society

what is enquiry ? an enquiry is the transformation of the indeterminate situation (or problematic) into a unified situation - working with the parts and relations that consititute that situation …richard buchanan

what is research ? an enquiry in the search knowledge and understandingrichard buchanan

what is research ? an enquiry in the search knowledge and understandingrichard buchanan

Research for Design

Research about Design

Research through Design

Research for Design

chemistry research on new plastics

arduino research to further reduce its sizeand increase its programmability.

Research for Designchemistry research on new plasticsarduino research to further reduce its sizeand increase its programmability.

Research about Designarticle describing and contextualizingthe work of Bill Viola

Research for Designchemistry research on new plasticsarduino research to further reduce its sizeand increase its programmability.

Research about Designarticle describing and contextualizingthe work of Bill Viola

Research about Designin the act of designing

Stelarc

knowledge + research+ other dichotomous notions

what is knowledge?

what is knowledge ? a state of knowing …

what is knowledge? derived from early questions such as:

why are we here?what is the meaning in our lives?what is the structure of the world what we live in?

what is knowledge?

…. justified true beliefor truth?

It has been said that Socrates considered a number of theories as to what knowledge is, the last being that knowledge is true belief

whose meaning explained or defined in some way = justified

Thus for knowledge / design knowledge to be justified true belief:one must also have a good reason for doing so – in other words, it is justified.

what is knowledge ? a state of knowing ….how do we know ?

knowledge can be classified into a priori knowledge, which is obtained without needing to observe the world, and a posteriori or empirical knowledge, which is only obtained after observing the world or interacting with it in some way.

"a priori" and "a posteriori" are used in philosophy to distinguish two different types of knowledge, justification, or argument: a priori knowledge is known independently of experience, and a posteriori knowledge is proven through experience.

the phrases "a priori" and "a posteriori" are Latin for "from what comes before" and "from what comes later" (or, less literally, "before experience" and "after experience").

•I have hands …•my middle finger is longer than my ring finger, and it is longer than my little finger …•the tomato I'm holding is red all over …

.. reasons for thinking each of these claims is true, but the reasons do not appear to derive from experience but one can apprehend the truth of these claims just by reflecting on their content.

Immanuel Kant said that a priori knowledge is “knowledge that is absolutely independent of all experience” (Kant 1787).

what is knowledge ? how do we know anything ?

what is knowledge ? how do we know anything ?

we read itwe are told itwe observe itwe just feel it - intuition? perception ?we just know it- instinct ? a hunch ? we know it … tacit knowledge

what is knowledge ? how do we know anything ?

we experiment + we experience .

It is our analytical interpretation and our understanding of experiments and/or experience from designing that leads to knowledge.

Knowledge emerges from critical inquiry.

why is knowledge so important?

where do we find knowledge today?

Troy Hurtubise

constructivists.

constructivism is a view of philosophy that knowledge can only be created / constructed in our minds, and thus only exist in our minds.

the world, environment and objects have information, but that information doesn’t become qualifiable knowledge until it is processed by the mind.

what is design knowledge ?

231 is a creative process through a systematic progression of research to reveal something to you that you do not already know and that is perhaps not known at all, so it becomesunique knowledge… new in the absolute sense

231 is to uncover and discover something new, to explore the unknown and to take ownership of your process and what your findings.

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AFFIRMATIVE DESIGN

CRITICAL DESIGN

Massive ChangeBruce Mau

S,M, L, XLrem koolhaas

FEEL

THINK it

HEAR

THINK it

SMELL

THINK it

EXPERIENCE itphysically

EXPERIENCE itvisually in time

THINK it

WRITEabout it

REFLECT upon it

CONCLUDE it

QUESTION