Design, Gestaltung, Formatività Philosophies of Making

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, psych...

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Main Author Ribault, Patricia
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Birkhäuser 2022
De Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Edition1
Subjects
creative process
DESIGN / General
design process
Design Prozess
design theory
Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration
Designtheorie
Drawing, decorative and minor arts
Fashion and textile design
Formativita
Formgebung
Gestaltung
Gilles Tiberghien
History of art
Individual designers or design groups
Luigi Pareyson
philosophies of making
Pierre-Damien Huyghe
Product design
The Arts
The Arts: treatments and subjects
Typography and lettering
philosophies of making
creative process
Pierre-Damien Huyghe
Gilles Tiberghien
design process
Luigi Pareyson
design theory
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ISBN3035622442
9783035622447
3035622434
9783035622430
DOI10.1515/9783035622447

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