Design, Gestaltung, Formatività: Philosophies of Making

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Design, Gestaltung, Formatività

Philosophies of Making

Edited by: Patricia Ribault

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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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

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Patricia Ribault, Professor of Performative Design Research at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	4
Design, Gestaltung, Formatività. An Introduction Patricia Ribault Open Access Download PDF	7
Giving Form
Estetica. Teoria della formatività. Preface to the 1988 edition, followed by “The Specification of Art” Luigi Pareyson Open Access Download PDF	23
Formativity: A Philosophy of Making Gilles A. Tiberghien Open Access Download PDF	41
Gestaltung: A Process of Transformation of Forms as the Dynamic of Creativity Gaëlle Le Page Open Access Download PDF	55
Form in the Sphere of Design Pierre-Damien Huyghe Open Access Download PDF	69
First There Is Form. Some Critical Remarks About the Belief That Form Follows Function Jörg Petruschat Open Access Download PDF	79
No Deviation, No Life. Fine Arts and Symmetry Horst Bredekamp Open Access Download PDF	91
Bricology: An Anthropology of Making Art Thomas Golsenne Open Access Download PDF	109
The Threshold of Invention. Design Processes in Light of Some Methods of Projection Tiago da Costa e Silva Open Access Download PDF	121
From Gestalt to Gestaltung. A Conversation with Giovanni Anceschi Emanuele Quinz Open Access Download PDF	133
From Invisible Design to Post-Optimal Objects. Interface Design and Discourses of Dematerialization since circa 1960 Claudia Mareis Open Access Download PDF	147
The Will to Engineer. Synthetic Biology and the Escalation of Zoëpolitics Martin Müller Open Access Download PDF	159
Buckminster Fuller: In Praise of the Imperfect Didier Semin Open Access Download PDF	169
The Design Turn 2.0 Wolfgang Schäffner Open Access Download PDF	183
Form Given
From the Invention of Manufacturing Processes to the Discovery of Matter Emile De Visscher Open Access Download PDF	197
Toward an Archaeology of Hanro’s Design Processes of Underwear Production in the 1930s Leonie Häsler Open Access Download PDF	211
The Discreet Charm of Typography Thomas Huot-Marchand Open Access Download PDF	221
Acting Things. Choreographing the Everyday Judith Seng Open Access Download PDF	237
In Formation & Information in Living Material Dominique Peysson Open Access Download PDF	251
Rethinking the Materials Paradigm. Toward an Active Understanding of Gestaltung Khashayar Razghandi Open Access Download PDF	263
The Bark Project. Combining Science and Design to Elaborate New Models of Production for the Design Industry Charlett Wenig Open Access Download PDF	273
In the Flow. Incorporating the Formative Forces of Fluid Matter Barbara Schmidt Open Access Download PDF	285
Designing Openness. An Approach to Integrate Active Material Behavior into Digital Design Practice Ianis Lallemand Open Access Download PDF	303
To Build a Fish. Structuring Space and Material in Skeletons Mason Dean, Júlia Chaumel and Ronald Seidel Open Access Download PDF	315
The Role of Mechanics in the Growth and Modeling of Biological Materials Cécile Bidan Open Access Download PDF	329
Expansions and Imperfections. Experiments on a Self-Morphing Lattice Lorenzo Guiducci and Selma Lepart Open Access Download PDF	343
Attempts at Explementation. Combining Material and Symbolic Operations in Art and Design Research Samuel Bianchini Open Access Download PDF	355
Afterword Claudia Mareis, Wolfgang Schäffner, Peter Fratzl and Horst Bredekamp Open Access Download PDF	369
Biographies Open Access Download PDF	374
Image Credits Open Access Download PDF	378
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	380

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eBook published on:

September 6, 2022

eBook ISBN:

9783035622447

Paperback published on:

September 6, 2022

Paperback ISBN:

9783035622430

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368

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220

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035622447

eBook ISBN: 9783035622447

Paperback ISBN: 9783035622430

Keywords for this book

philosophies of making; design process; creative process; design theory; Luigi Pareyson; Gilles Tiberghien; Pierre-Damien Huyghe

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Designers/creators of different disciplines from research and practice, artists, interested laypersons

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