THEORY AS PRACTICE 2 - THEORY LECTURE
Inter-Disciplinarily, Trans-Disciplinarily, Multiplicity & Puralism
Core Concepts
- Pluralism (Perspective): Both multiplicity and pluralism are concerned with the relationship between the one and the many, between layers of difference and identity in a social context.
- Multiplicity (Principle): In the early 20th century there is a growing sense that self-evident definition of truth, beauty, and good could no longer provide a secure, meaningful orientation in the world. For others the 20th century stands as a vertiginous unmooring of existence.
Multiplicity Brings A Pluralistic Vision of Truths, Goods & Beauties
- These Include...
- Atheism
- Anomalies In Scientific Measure
- Conceptions of Social Self
- Contingency
- Relationship of Dewey's Position To Postmodernism
- Political Action
Application (General)
- Inter-Diciplinarity (Collaborative): This is the coming together of areas of expertise/multiple ways of knowing. Experts often work on their own aspects of the problem, it is the project that is inter-disciplinary.
- Trans-Disciplinarily: This is more radically constructivist, as it attempts to cultivate new ways of knowing new ways of working through the intersection of disciplines. There are no hard and fast boundaries between disciplines intact the same individual/team operates across boundaries.
Application (Specific)
- Design For Politics: Merging form and content in aesthetically compelling and functionally appropriate ways support means of governance. Examples of this would be signage/manuals or get out and vote campaigns.
- Political Design (Design For The Political): This is design for the dimension of antagonism inherent in human relations. The political is an ongoing contest between forces and ideas.
