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designerly ways of knowing
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designers know :
(how to or have)
propose additions to + changes to the artificial world (constructed contexts)
knowledge of + about the artificial world
contribute to the creation + maintenance of it
knowledge inherent in the act of designing
inherent in the artefacts of the constructed contexts
inherent in the processes of making (material or immaterial)
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creative
intuitive
engaged+engaging
through reflective practice
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Pergamon, Pergamum or Pérgamo
ancient greek
281–133 BCThe Altar which was taken away from Pergamon in 1871 and carried to Germany by the German engineer Carl
Humann, is exhibited at the Museum of Pergamum in Berlin, in a manner conforming to its original
and roman cultural centre
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memphis
http://www.nathaliedupasquier.com/artworks_design.htm
memphisfounder
collective
philosophy
consensus + individuality
audience
1981-88
Today everything one does is consumed. It is dedicated to life, not to eternity.
Ettore Sottsass.
http://www.designmuseum.org/media/item/610/0/Memphis_ResourcePack.pdf
sottsassstudio alchymia
1.Putting behind the myth of the “unity’ of a project and concentrating on a free discontinuity of
parts with respect to the whole.
2.The search for a new linguistic “expressive” quality as a possible solution to the enigma of
design and as a new possible meaning.
3.Recycling all possible idioms now in circulation within the experience of our lives.
4.Recuperating decoration and colour as signs of freedom and nobility of creative invention.
5.Going beyond ergonomic limits and concentrating on an affective relationship between man
and his things.
Richard Horn. Memphis. 1895. Objects, Furniture, and Patterns. Philadephia: Running Press. p.17.
sottsassarch izoom
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manifesto
manifestoscollectives+collaborations
movements
1. a. A public declaration or proclamation, written or spoken; esp. a printed declaration, explanation, or justification of policy issued by a head of state, government, or political party or candidate, or any other
individual or body of individuals of public relevance, as a school or movement in the Arts.
b. In extended use: a book or other work by a private individual supporting a cause, propounding a theory or argument, or promoting a certain lifestyle.
Italian, denunciation, manifest, from manifestare to manifest, from Latin, from manifestus
Date:1620: a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer
art
politics
technology
The October Manifesto Октябрьский Манифест, Манифест 17 октября) was issued on October 17, 1905.
The official name of the document is
The Manifesto on the Improvement of the State Order
(Манифест об усовершенствовании государственного порядка).
The Manifesto addressed the unrest in Russia and pledged to grant civil liberties to the people: including
personal immunity, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedeom of association; a
broad participation in the Duma; and a decree that no law should come into force without the consent of the state
Duma. The manifesto was a precursor of the first ever Russian constitution.
C O N S T R U C T
constructivism
factura: the particular material properties of
the object
tektonika: its spatial presence
is a combination of
1921
first constructivist exhibition
first used in reference to rodchenko
bymalevich
ale
ksan
dr
roch
en
cko
rochencko
The focus is on Rodchenko's Spatial Constructions, created around 1920, in which he explored the art potential of the plane surface and the transition from planarity to spatiality. As radical visions of space formation and architecture, they count among his most outstanding and lasting achievements.
el lissitzky
el li
ssit
zky
Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий
tatlin toweror
The Monument to the Third International
Tatlin’sTower1917 -1920
Tatlin’s Tower would have dwarfed the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The tower was to be built from industrial materials: iron, glassand steel. It was envisioned as a towering symbol of modernity. The tower’s main form was a twin helix which spiralled upto 400 m/1312ft in height, where visitors would be transported around with the aid of various mechanical devices.Interesting Fact: At the base of the structure was a rotating cube which was designed as a venue for lectures, conferencesand legislative meetings. The cube would complete a rotation in the span of one year. Above that cube would be a smallerpyramid housing executive activities and completing a rotation once a month.
El Lissitzky Proun 99 1924
the station where one changes from painting to architecture
G5
. 19
26
malevich
Variation Tortion IIBronze with WireNaum Gabo
Antoine Pevsner
Naum Gabo and his brother, Anton Pevsner, worked in the Constructivist style of abstract art. They left Russia after the 1917 Revolution when art became doctrinaire and tied to communist philosophy. They continued to develop their ideas and spread them through the Western World.
zuev workers club, moscow 1926-27
shukhov radiotower
gustav klutsis. axonometric art. 1920 moholy-nagy six sheets. 1922-23
futurism100 years
later
futurism
100 years
02. 2009
Futurist Movement Manifesto
1. That all forms of imitation should be held in contempt and that all forms of originality should be glorified.
2. That we should rebel against the tyranny of the words harmony and good taste. With these expressions, which are too
elastic, it would be an easy matter to demolish the works of Rembrandt, Goya, and Rodin.
3. That art criticisms are either useless or detrimental.
4. That a clean-sweep should be made of all stale and threadbare subject-matter in order to express the vortex of modern life--a
life of steel, fever, pride and headlong speed.
5. That the accusation "madmen", which has been employed to gag innovators, should be considered a noble and honourable
title.
6. That complementarism in painting is an absolute necessity like free verse in poetry and polyphony in music.
7. That universal dynamism must be rendered in painting as a dynamic sensation.
8. That sincerity and virginity, more than any other qualities, are necessary to the interpretation of nature.
9. That motion and light destroy the materiality of bodies.'
dada
modernistsarchitecture
▪ an adoption of the principle that the materials and functional requirements determine the result
▪ an adoption of the machine aesthetic
▪ a rejection of ornament
▪ a simplification of form and elimination of "unnecessary detail”
▪ an adoption of expressed structure
▪ form follows function
What is Modern Design?
Twelve precepts of modern design.
1. Modern design should fulfill the practical needs of modern life.
2. Modern design should express the spirit of our times.
3. Modern design should benefit by contemporary advances in the fine arts and pure sciences.
4. Modern design should take advantage of new materials and techniques and develop familiar ones.
5. Modern design should develop the forms, textures and colours that spring from the direct fulfillment of requirements in appropriate materials and
techniques.
6. Modern design should express the purpose of an object, never making it seem to be what it is not.
7. Modern design should express the qualities and beauties of the materials used, never making the materials seem to be what they are not.
8. Modern design should express the methods used to make an object, not disguising mass production as handicraft or simulating a technique not
used.
9. Modern design should blend expression of utility, material and process into a visually satisfactory whole.
10. Modern design should be simple, it structure evident in its appearance, avoiding extraneous enrichment.
11. Modern design should master the machine for the service of man.
12. Modern design should serve as wide a public as possible, considering modest needs and limited costs no less challenging than the requirements
of pomp and luxury.
Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar. What is Modern Design. The Museum of Modern Art. New York. 1950
Director of Industrial Design, MOMA 1950-55
modernism
consumerism
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80,000 flights a day
22 million children go hungry each day
suburban sprawl is ugly
role of design …
Philip Beesley
http://www.hylozoicground.com/
HYLOZOIC GROUNDhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v86B9Nz_LVU
next week notions of being merlin
