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 Diszipl...

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
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• 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.