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- Title
Design Discourse Blank Meaning as Design Affordance. Memory and Fictions (a dialogue between Anna Calvera and Fátima Pombo).
- Authors
Calvera, Anna; Pombo, Fátima
- Abstract
We are interested to contribute to an aesthetics of everyday things, by arguing the theme through the phenomenological context of the 'designed' things from the side of the user, namely as manifestation of self-creation (autopoiesis) and perception of time. Our paper focuses mainly on use as an act of giving meaning to everyday life. Some principles: design deals with memory and present time, tradition and innovation, permanent and ephemeral. Being the individual a perceptive being and being perception given on a horizon that cannot be only defined by efficiency, a product (artifact, thing) is open to diversity of interpretations. This statement will be enlightened with the concept of blank meaning (concept that we created and will be explained along the full paper). The background of our discourse is placed beyond the customization of everyday things: things still live and perform after being acquired. Therefore, we focus on the microdimension of the universe of fictions that allows people to be surrounded by things that have meaning even though they no longer have a function. The conclusion of our paper focus both into designer users and design practice as an act of giving meaning to everyday life. Therefore, arriving to that point, we intend to clarify the concept of meaning in order to contribute towards an Aesthetics of beauty in use.
- Subjects
DESIGN; AUTOPOIESIS; INDUSTRIAL design; EVERYDAY life; SOCIAL systems
- Publication
Kepes, 2011, Vol 8, Issue 7, p43
- ISSN
1794-7111
- Publication type
Article