Design, gestaltung, formativita : : philosophies of making / / Patricia Ribault (editor).

• TeilnehmendeR: Ribault, Patricia,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : Birkhäuser,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 pages)

Was haben die Schaffensprozesse eines Neurochirurgen und einer Malerin gemeinsam? Mithilfe der Definitionen von „Design“, „Gestaltung“ und „Formatività“ wirft dieses Buch ein neues Licht auf die Entstehungs- und Entwicklungsprozesse der materiellen Welt.TheoretikerInnen aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen hinterfragen die etablierten Prozesse der Formgebung, während KünstlerInnen, DesignerInnen, IngenieurInnen und WissenschaftlerInnen ihre kreativen Prozesse vorstellen. Die Leserschaft erhält einen Überblick über das Spektrum an „Philosophien des Gestaltens“ und ist eingeladen über das eigene Schaffen, dessen Möglichkeiten und die damit verbundene Verantwortung der Umwelt gegenüber nachzudenken und ins Handeln zu kommen – nie war es dringlicher, eine neue Beziehung zwischen Materie und Form herzustellen. • Diskussion und Erweiterung der Definitionen von „Design“, „Gestaltung“ und „Formatività“• Führende internationale TheoretikerInnen äußern sich zum Verhältnis von Materie und Form• Sammlung von neuen sowie erstmals ins Englische übersetzte Schlüsseltexte zum Thema

What do the work processes of a neurosurgeon and a painter have in common? Applying the notions of “Design”, “Gestaltung”, and “Formatività”, this book sheds new light on processes of formation and transformation in the material world we live in.Scholars from the fields of history, philosophy, psychology, media, and cultural studies question established processes of giving form, while artists, designers, engineers, and scientists describe their creative processes. This book provides its readers with an overview of the spectrum of “philosophies of making” and invites them to reflect on their own creative process, its possibilities, and associated responsibilities to the environment, and ultimately to express these in action. There has never been a more urgent need to develop a new relationship between matter and form. • Discussing and expanding the definitions of “Design”, “Gestaltung”, and “Formatività”• Leading international theorists write about the relationship between matter and form• A collection of new texts and first English translation of key texts

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Design, Gestaltung, Formatività. An Introduction -- Giving Form -- Estetica. Teoria della formatività. Preface to the 1988 edition, followed by "The Specification of Art" -- Formativity: A Philosophy of Making -- Gestaltung: A Process of Transformation of Forms as the Dynamic of Creativity -- Form in the Sphere of Design -- First There Is Form. Some Critical Remarks About the Belief That Form Follows Function -- No Deviation, No Life. Fine Arts and Symmetry -- Bricology: An Anthropology of Making Art -- The Threshold of Invention. Design Processes in Light of Some Methods of Projection -- From Gestalt to Gestaltung. A Conversation with Giovanni Anceschi -- From Invisible Design to Post-Optimal Objects. Interface Design and Discourses of Dematerialization since circa 1960 -- The Will to Engineer. Synthetic Biology and the Escalation of Zoëpolitics -- Buckminster Fuller: In Praise of the Imperfect -- The Design Turn 2.0 -- Form Given -- From the Invention of Manufacturing Processes to the Discovery of Matter -- Toward an Archaeology of Hanro's Design Processes of Underwear Production in the 1930s -- The Discreet Charm of Typography -- Acting Things. Choreographing the Everyday -- In Formation &amp -- amp -- Information in Living Material -- Rethinking the Materials Paradigm. Toward an Active Understanding of Gestaltung -- The Bark Project. Combining Science and Design to Elaborate New Models of Production for the Design Industry -- In the Flow. Incorporating the Formative Forces of Fluid Matter -- Designing Openness. An Approach to Integrate Active Material Behavior into Digital Design Practice -- To Build a Fish. Structuring Space and Material in Skeletons -- The Role of Mechanics in the Growth and Modeling of Biological Materials -- Expansions and Imperfections. Experiments on a Self-Morphing Lattice.

Attempts at Explementation. Combining Material and Symbolic Operations in Art and Design Research -- Afterword -- Biographies -- Image Credits -- Acknowledgments.