Phd Candidate in Design
richard mc keon, student of John Dewey, from University of Chicago, created a map of philosophy and pointed out the fundamentals of philosophy with the article; philosophic semantics and philosophic inquiry. i got the chance to read this article last year, and still it protects its liveliness in my path as a doctorate student. he [...]
design processscenario, enactment, conceptualization, idea generation, brainstorming, project proposal. shape grammar, motion grammar.pattern (design) artefactshow do we define them?how do we name products?visual language, textual language, action languagelanguage: speaking, talking, writing, expressingspeaking, talking: voice of the product: ethos. talking: interacting with other artefacts,peoplewriting: sentence, form, and matterexpressing: emotional, poetic, dialectic. language: arbitrary and conventional symbols. [...]
Kenneth Burke in Nonsymbolic motion/symbolic action essay put action in a symbolic perspective. For Burke, action is symbolic, and action differentiated from motion when we name it. so it becomes and exists with the language (that is conventional and arbitrary.) if action is symbolic, then what is a symbol? lets take the webster definition here: [...]
william james in his ‘experience as activity’ essay generally talks about action and agency issues. After having a distinction between bare activitiy and complete activity, he asserts that the complete activites like creation and done by intention, and has a goal. he then talks about 3 principles which have been used by philosophers in order [...]