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  • When Objects Fail: Unconcealing Things in Design Writing and Criticism

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    Hall, Peter
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    Hall, Peter A.
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    Drawing terms from the philosophers Bruno Latour, Michel Serres, and Martin Heidegger, this essay argues that one way to put thing theory to use in design criticism is by analyzing objects that failed. Instead of starting the critical journey with pictures of successful objects on pedestals, this investigation begins with recognized failures, or with failures that the object supposedly fixes. When something fails, we want to know why - a question that immediately moves design criticism past its obsession with style, form, movements, and biographies and into a mode of explication.Drawing terms from the philosophers Bruno Latour, Michel Serres, and Martin Heidegger, this essay argues that one way to put thing theory to use in design criticism is by analyzing objects that failed. Instead of starting the critical journey with pictures of successful objects on pedestals, this investigation begins with recognized failures, or with failures that the object supposedly fixes. When something fails, we want to know why - a question that immediately moves design criticism past its obsession with style, form, movements, and biographies and into a mode of explication.
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    Journal Title
    Design and Culture
    Volume
    6
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.2752/175470814X14031924627022
    Copyright Statement
    © 2014 Bloomsbury Publishing. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/63809
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