{"id":882,"date":"2008-09-17T11:26:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T10:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=882"},"modified":"2008-09-23T14:42:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T13:42:42","slug":"has-design-replaced-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/texts\/has-design-replaced-revolution","title":{"rendered":"Has re-design replaced revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ant.gif\" alt=\"latour network\" title=\"ant\" width=\"237\" height=\"180\" class=\"float\"\/>Philosopher of science, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruno-latour.fr\">Bruno Latour<\/a>, opened the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networksofdesign.co.uk\">Networks of Design conference<\/a> with a keynote address: <em>A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design<\/em>. In his lecture, Latour linked the growing importance of design with his idea that &#8220;<em>matters of fact<\/em>&#8221; have become &#8220;<em>matters of concern<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nProvocatively presenting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petersloterdijk.net\/\">Peter Sloterdijk<\/a> as philosopher of design, he states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The great importance of Sloterdijk\u2019s philosophy (and I think the major interest of a designer\u2019s way of looking at things) is that it offers another idiom. The idiom of matters of concern reclaims matter, matters and materiality and renders them into something that can and must be carefully redesigned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In his conclusion, Latour challenges designers &#8220;<em>to draw things together<\/em>&#8220;, shifting the meaning of design from <em>re-looking<\/em> to a practice which gathers scientist, technicians etc. around the table:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is needed instead are tools that capture what have always been the hidden practices of modernist innovations: objects have always been projects; matters of fact have always been matters of concern. The tools we need to grasp these hidden practices will teach us just as much as the old aesthetics of matters of fact \u2014and then again much more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download the paper here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruno-latour.fr\/articles\/article\/112-DESIGN-CORNWALL.pdf\">http:\/\/www.bruno-latour.fr\/articles\/article\/112-DESIGN-CORNWALL.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosopher of science, Bruno Latour, opened the recent Networks of Design conference with a keynote address: A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design. In his lecture, Latour linked the growing importance of design with his idea that &#8220;matters of fact&#8221; have become &#8220;matters of concern&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[116,70,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}