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Process & Language for Design. Kouichi Kishida SRA-KTL Tokyo, Japan. Ways of Worldmaking. Countless worlds are made by using symbols!? The many stuffs – matter, energy, waves, phenomena – that worlds are made of are made along with the worlds.
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Process & Languagefor Design Kouichi Kishida SRA-KTL Tokyo, Japan
Ways of Worldmaking • Countless worlds are made by using symbols!? • The many stuffs – matter, energy, waves, phenomena – that worlds are made of are made along with the worlds. • Not from nothing, after all, but from other worlds. • World-making as we know it always starts from worlds already on hands; the making is remaking. - Nelson Goodman
Neurath’s Boat We are like sailors, who on the open sea, must reconstruct their boat,but are never able to start afresh from the bottom - Otto Neurath
Analysis of Design(Paul Klee in Bauhaus Lecture) • Analysis in Natural Science: What are the characteristics of “Components” ? • Analysis in Art: How was the “Process” of creation?
Process Steps in Worldmaking 1. Composition & Decomposition 2. Weighting 3. Ordering 4. Deletion & Supplementation 5. Deformation These are logical steps, do not represent chronological sequence
LanguageOur Tool for Worldmaking Dimensions of Language - Nakamoto Tominaga • Personal Preference • Historical Time • Linguistic patterns Be careful about these dimensions in any representation of world model (design)
Linguistic Patterns • Extension • Inclination • Afloat • Limitation • Irony These patterns are not only rhetoric, they are the driving force for change.
Add-on Principle To demonstrate the authenticity of your world design, you always take a journey in time to trace back older than others, but you can not escape from the trap of time you are living in.
Question How much are our thinking bound to the times?
Reference • 1. Nelson Goodman • “Ways of Worldmaking” • Hacket Publishing, 1978. • 2. Tetsuo Najita • “Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The • Kaitokudo Merchant Academy of Osaka” • University of Hawaii Press, 1998