I'd probably frame it slightly differently but yes. I'd frame it that
objects participate in discourse, which I hold, which is also a
fundamental assumption of actor-network theory. As such everyone,
and all objects within a culture, participate in various discourses.
As to the objectified level, that would depend on the culture, but it
seems pretty true in capitalist cultures, which reify all processes
into objects in some way or another. So the idea from my position is
less that designers do anything necessarily different to objects in
terms of discourse, engineers, artists, social scientists, indeed i'd
say all modern persons use 'objects' to 'verify, change, or transform
existing solutions into better ones', indeed many animals other than
humans do the same sort of thing.
On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Jurgen Faust wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I would like to know whether there is anybody who would support a
> statement that
> designers also maintain discourses on an object level? That means
> that designers generate
> objects; solutions to verify, change or transform existing solutions
> in better once?
> I am currently exploring the idea that textual matters in design
> comprehend also design
> solutions as objects. I am using the current transformation of the
> existing i-phone we see,
> when we look at all the proposed changes in competitive products.
>
>
> Jurgen Faust
>
> Prof. DIGITAL MEDIA
> MHMK MUENCHEN
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