Design, Philosophy and Making Things Happen

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Drawing from the work of Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger, this book aims to relate a series of philosophic insights to the practice of engaging in design research for change. These insights are explored and presented as a set of potential strategies for grounding transformative design research within an intellectual context which both embraces and celebrates experience, process and uncertainty. Chapter by chapter, through theory, practical examples and case studies, an accessible narrative opens up around the coupled themes of existence and experience, language and meaning and knowing and truth. The outcome is a rich and detailed perspective on the ways in which philosophy may afford design research for change a means to both explain, as well as understand, not only what it is and what it does, but also what it could be. The book will be of interest to scholars working in design studies, design theory and design research. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Prologue: The Entwining of Design and Dynamic Knowledge Production Philosophy, Epistemology and Developing an Epistemological Narrative for Design Research Involving Practice? This is a ‘Pragmatist’ Book Yes, but Really, Why Just Focus on Dewey-Wittgenstein- Heidegger? Two Additional Points on Privilege, the Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger Baseline and Myself as Author Introduction: Design Research, Philosophy and Some Radical Philosophers A Brief Sketch of Design in the Present A Brief Sketch of Design Research in the Past and the Present A Brief Sketch of the History of Western Philosophy (and Epistemology) A Brief Note on the Concept of the Radical in Philosophy Where do Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger fit into Philosophy? How are They Radical? The Present Relationship between Design and Philosophy The Philosophy of Design Polanyi, Schön and Ingold: Theory at the Edge of Philosophy The Design-Philosophy Nexus as a Whole Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger: Their Backgrounds and Some Quick Intersections Why Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger Over Anyone Else? Pathway 0.1 An Historical Pathway: The Marxist Influence The Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger Baseline as a Means of Carrying Things Forwards The Structure of this Book 1 Positioning: Working with Context in Experience Motivations in Design Research Objectivity in Research: The Position of the Researcher and the Designer-Researcher Moblising Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger Dewey’s Interlinking of Experience-Existence Wittgenstein’s Forms of Life and Ways of ‘Seeing’ Heidegger’s Dasein, Care and b/Being Pathway 1.1 Two Established Pathways: Heidegger on Things and Technology Positioning via Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger: Design Research and Organism-Environment Relations; Being-in-World; and Forms of Life Pathway 1.2 A Pathway to Consider: A Marxist Positioning on Creativity Pathway 1.3 Pathways Which Have Opened up a Series of Key Horizons: Quick Notes on the Decolonial; Feminism; the Ecological; and Buddhism Design Research Projects 1.1 Transition Design Design Research Projects 1.2 Decolonising Design 2 Processing: Making a World Together through Meaningful Inquiry The Intersecting of the Design (Research) Process and the Methodological Processing and Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger: Linking Action and Meaning in Coming to Know, See and Discover Dewey’s Theories of Inquiry and Communication Pathway 2.1 An Established Pathway: Semiotics Design Research Projects 2.1 Design Tools: A Means of Meaning Making Wittgenstein’s Language Games Design Research Projects 2.2 The Women’s Design + Research Unit Heidegger’s Discovery and Poetic Thinking Pathway 2.2 A Potential Pathway in Formation: Design and Buddhism Ways of Processing via Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger: Knowing, Understanding, Discovering Pathway 2.3 Some Additional Potential Linguistic Pathways: Austin, Foucault and Butler 3 Producing: Knowing Value Designing and Knowing in the Contemporary Field: Designerly Endpoints and Outcomes Producing and Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger Dewey’s Escape from Knowledge and Belief: Warranted Assertability Wittgenstein’s Grounding of Knowledge, Certainty, Judgement and Doubt Heidegger’s Unconcealment: Truth as Discoveredness Design Research Projects 3.1 The ‘Reorientation’ of the Designing Quality in Interaction Group at TU Delft Producing and Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger: Asserting, Defending, Unconcealing Pathway 3.1 An Establishing Pathway: Latourian Actor Network Theory and Design via Latour Pathway 3.2 A Pathway in Formation: Postphenomenology Conclusion – Understanding the Boundaries, A Justificatory Narrative and What Next? Positioning, Processing and Producing in the Round: The Baseline and Design Research Involving Practice A Brief Note on the Pathways Mapping the Baseline Philosophers and Some Pathways: A First ‘Sketch’ An Early Epistemological Justificatory Narrative for Design Research Involving Practice via the Baseline Pathway C.1 A Pathway to be Considered Further: A Quick Outline of the Potential of Critical Theory’s Commitment to Transformation Pathway C.2 A Pathway that is Appealing but Challenging: A Quick Note on the Potential of Deleuze-Guattari for the Development of an Epistemology of Design Research Involving Practice Pathway C.3 A Final Pathway, not yet Fully Formed but Needing to be Explored: Process Philosophy, Whitehead and the Potential for a Metaphysics for Design Design Research Projects C.1 Philosophy in Action at the Everyday Design Studio, at Simon Fraser University Design Research Projects C.2 Antidisciplinarity Why Does This Matter? How Might Philosophy Benefit from a Designerly Perspective? Or, Towards a Designer-Philosopher Index