Hi Jeremy,
interesting position and thanks for the hint regarding actor network theory.
I also agree with you that designers don't do anything different then
others, but many are involved in designing, therefore they don't do anything
different to objects. But your thoughts are very helpful within my research!
Thanks,...
Jurgen
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:15:16 -0400, jeremy hunsinger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>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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