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Category Archives: body
Designing Utopia – Designers as Catalysts for Transformation
by Tom Bieling It is said that if 3.5% of the population, across all classes, are prepared to change substantial aspects of their way of life, this will set in motion a profound change in society. 3.5 %, that doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in activism, architecture, awareness, body, design research, exhibition, gender, posthumanism, Protest, social design, sustainability and social innovation
Tagged Critical Care, design research, Designtheorie, NDU, New Design University, Political, Social, St. Pölten, tom bieling, Transformation Design, Transformationsdesign, vienna, wien
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Zwischen Materialität und Medialität: „Die Sprachen des Materials“ (#BookReview)
Die in den letzten Jahren auch in den designtheoretischen Diskursen zunehmende Auseinandersetzung mit dem Begriff „Agency“ – der in diesem Zusammenhang im Deutschen wohl am ehesten mit „Handlungsmacht“ übersetzt werden kann – hat nicht nur die Wirkungskraft von Subjekten, sondern … Continue reading
Posted in body, design research, designwissenschaft, embodiment, german/deutsch, interaction, philosophie
Tagged buch, design, Designforschung, Designwissenschaft, Digital Materialism, Harald Weltzien, Julia Wolf, kulturwissenschaft, Martin Scholz, Material, material turn, Materialforschung, New Materialism, Patrick Rupert-Kruse, rezension, Stefan Wölwer, tom bieling
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Beauty and the Norm: Debating Standarization in bodily Appearance
Beauty and the Norm: Debating Standarization in bodily Appearance The past decades have seen a global boom in the body aesthetics services with profound effects on people’s bodies worldwide. The global beauty and fashion industries disseminate mass-mediated images of men … Continue reading
Posted in body, Conference, Diversity, gender
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Skintimacy
Skintimacy is an interface that allows for the manipulation of electronic-based processes through touch. Depending on whom you touch, the way your bodies make contact influences the control of both analog instruments and digital setups. Alexander Müller-Rakow and his team … Continue reading
Posted in body, interaction
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Touching new ways of commincation for 2012 and beyond….
Dear friends Liebe Freunde Caras amigos A healthy, successful and happy 2012 to all of you (especially those we haven’t met this year)! Euch allen (insbesondere denen, die wir in diesem Jahr leider nicht treffen konnten) sowie einen sicheren Rutsch … Continue reading
Anthropomorphe – Different views on the human body
“Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.” (Quote from the anthropomorphe blog) Anthropomorphe features an extensive collection of stunning imagery that challenges our notions of … Continue reading
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