Following the Elephant-Nosed Fish: Making Things More Complicated as a Form of Resistance

NERD – New Experimental Research in Design Pub Date : 2018-11-05 DOI:10.1515/9783035617429-006

Shintaro Miyazaki, Susanna Hertrich

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Compared to the more common design practices research in design or design research as a child of the post-war 1960s has always already been linked to more processual aspects of design influenced by cybernetics, system dynamics, and system think:ing. Since then a continuous vanishing and diminution of the material aspects in design are noticeable. Certain aspects of design became increasingly ungraspable, invisible and unperceivable as Lucius Burcl

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