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Metaphors result in Technology (?)

Metaphors result in Technology (?). Kees Doevendans Darmstadt, 22-03-02. USO-Built. Multi-disciplinary network α-, β- and γ-sciences inter- or trans-disciplinary approach intentional, structural and functional dimension. USO-Built as δ.

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Metaphors result in Technology (?)

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  1. Metaphors result in Technology (?) Kees Doevendans Darmstadt, 22-03-02

  2. USO-Built • Multi-disciplinary network • α-, β- and γ-sciences • inter- or trans-disciplinary approach • intentional, structural and functional dimension

  3. USO-Built as δ • δ-science: to interweave α-, β- and γ-sciences and dimensions by design and research or even: • Research by Design? • We are a δ of different scientific cultures • Next step: α + β + γ + δ = Σ-science ?

  4. Science • Modernity: strong tendency to natural science • Technology: applied science • Idealization of natural science: generalization, rejection of case studies

  5. Counter tendency • phenomenology vs natural science • ideographic vs nomothetical • intuition, instinct vs empirical • Verstehen vs Erklären • Imagination vs description • Phronetic science

  6. Phronetic science • Reflexive Modernity (Ulrich Beck): • Hermeneutic and aesthetic reflexivity (Scott Lash) • Phronesis: H-G. Gadamer

  7. Phronesis • Episteme:Scientific knowledge. Universal, invariable, context-independent. Based on general analytical rationality. • Techne:Craft/art. Pragmatic, variable, context-dependent. Oriented toward production. Based on practical instrumental rationality governed by a conscious goal. • Phronesis:Ethics. Deliberation about values with reference to praxis. Pragmatic, variable, context-dependent. Oriented toward action. Based on practical value-rationality.

  8. Scientific development • β: let us make a new measurement versus: • α: let us find a new metaphor or: • natural sciences also based on metaphors?

  9. Narrative science John Milbank (1990): • All science is narrative science, even natural science, so: • distinction between Verstehen and Erklaren is a mistake

  10. Language • If science is narrative science, we have to do with language • Problem of modernity: to link speech and reality, speech and phenomenon • Metaphor is instrument to bridge the gap • Metaphor is kind of pre-scientific concept

  11. O.M. Ungers as example Morphologie - City Metaphors (1982) 1 Phenomenon 2 Metaphor 3 Naming of the phenomenon based on the metaphor

  12. ‘Naming’ • If you cannot name it, it does not exist • ‘Naming and Necessity’ (Saul Kripke); possibilism versus actualism • Research by Design seen as creation of possible worlds, versus: • Phronetic science as actualism?

  13. Vidler as example: root metaphors • 1st typology: nature - city as garden, urban designer as gardener - mimesis • 2nd typology: city is a machine, the root metaphor for functionalism • 3th typology: city is history - ontology, morphology • 4th typology: ?

  14. Burgess (1) • ‘The Growth of a City’ • Natural science was key metaphor • City is a living organism, a human body, a plant community

  15. Burgess (2) • Rhetoric power to link the city to natural science • Metaphor was general concept for cities • Metaphor structured approach: form and process

  16. Ontology of difference • Nietzsche: scientific concept is worn-out metaphor > • Crisis of (scientific) re-presentation > • Withdraw from, deconstruct the metaphor, see the between the phenomenon and the scientific object made of it > • Find new metaphors

  17. Metaphor &Technology I ‘Root metaphor’ • The Heavenly Jerusalem: bleuprint planning, man took God’s place (modernism) • Babel: disturbed culture (postmodernism)

  18. Metaphor & Technology II • Technology is applied natural science • Natural science is based on metaphors

  19. Metaphor &Technology IIIa Paradigms • 20th Century Paradigm: • City as a living organism, city as machine were the key metaphors of 20th century urbanism: organic modernism • Grounded on this metaphors the functionalist paradigm was developed

  20. Metaphor &Technology IIIb • This paradigm became a technology in its post-paradigmatic period (finalized science) • Finalized science, based on a worn-out metaphor; accepted technology has lost its meaning; postmodern technology?

  21. Metaphor & Technology IV • Technology = Design • Design = design philosophy based on metaphors Deleuze / Guattari / Sap: New metaphors, new ontology, new design philosophy: Smooth - Striated Space, The Fold, Territory, Event, Plane, Rhizome, State … etc.

  22. Paradigm shift: New Metaphors • City as history: the city as artifact • The city as text, palimpsest (narrative science!) • The city is a landscape • The city is a body without organs • The city is not a tree, but a rhizome

  23. User-Orientation Combination of modes, dimensions • IRU 1: Intentional - Structural • IRU 2: Structural - Functional • IRU 3: Functional - Intentional

  24. User-Orientation IRU 1 Intentional mode: Design of the User by Metaphors? • The User = The Other (the Flaneur, the Dandy, the Vagabond, the Citizen, the Cyborg, the Nomad, the Tourist….) Structural mode: Phronetic Science? • The Other in Context - the Post-Industrial Landscape

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