Makeshift: Some Reflections on Japanese Design Sensibility
By constructing a series of prologues on preconditions of making across cultural and industrial traditions, Sarah Chaplin describes the embedded condition of uncertainty that lies within the very human act of making. ‘Makeshift’ recognises the impermanent and the imperfect, the ritualistic and the i...
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Published in | Architectural design Vol. 75; no. 4; pp. 78 - 85 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Chichester, UK
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
01.07.2005
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Summary: | By constructing a series of prologues on preconditions of making across cultural and industrial traditions, Sarah Chaplin describes the embedded condition of uncertainty that lies within the very human act of making. ‘Makeshift’ recognises the impermanent and the imperfect, the ritualistic and the indeterminate. From a question of meaning, this text argues that in Japanese culture at least, ‘things are never fully designed, but are always in a state of being designed’. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Bibliography: | ArticleID:AD107 ark:/67375/WNG-6HRJ4K99-4 istex:2CD6CAFCE57C179F0DEDF175716473BB30AE60F1 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-2 ObjectType-Feature-1 |
ISSN: | 0003-8504 1554-2769 |
DOI: | 10.1002/ad.107 |