Dear Katja,
Have you read "Blink" by Malcom Gladwell?
Apparently "intuition" (the realm of unexplainable decisions) is a result of
dense cultural experience. The fact is that our minds work much more than
our rationality our even our consciousness.
The questions that puzzle me about your post is how to connect an approach
that seems to understand critic as in the Adorno's Critic Theory, especially
when you write: "What could be a form of resistance in design? Is design a
catalyst between art and capital and therefore always subjected to its role
of functioning? Does design need a kind of external experimental space?"
with the blind spot that you mention.
I would say that if you will train designers as engineers (at least as they
are educated in my country) you would have "subjection to its role of
functioning". If you imagine a designer cultivated enough to act as filter
between false needs and true needs you could imagine someone that is always
building an "external experimental space" not as a technological cul de sac
but as place for social speculation. Still, the link to the blind spot is
hard to establish.
You could use an historical perspective and ask yourself how engaged
constructivists and supermatists were? And how much of their theoretical
approaches relied in blind spots.
Interesting enough, nevertheless,
Cheers,
Eduardo
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From: "Katja Gretzinger" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 10:52 PM
Subject: Criticality In Design / The Blind Spot
> Dear List,
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> thanks for all the great posts on this list!
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> Now I would have a question on my own. I am graphic designer and working
> on a design research at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL, a
> post-academic institute for research and production in art, design and
> theory. At the Jan van Eyck the idea of design research is implemented in
> a more practical approach.
>
> My research focuses on different questions around criticality in design
> (with a focus on graphic design). What could be a criticality in design?
> What could be a form of resistance in design? Is design a catalyst
> between art and capital and therefore always subjected to its role of
> functioning? Does design need a kind of external experimental space?
>
> A part of this research is an investigation about the notion of the blind
> spot. The blind spot "visualizes" the idea that no communication can ever
> be complete - and that in our perception there is always a lacking
> perspective about which we don`t know which perspective it is. It hints
> towards a way of thinking which stays dynamic and open. If you always
> head towards the point from which you were not able to look before, the
> potential of new ideas and perspectives grows bigger.
>
> I know that it is very broad but I would be very happy to hear any sort
> of ideas, references or remarks - positive and negative - to this ideas
> and questions! Thank you!!!!
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>
> Kind regards,
> Katja Gretzinger
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