Design with or without politics  

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Between the alternative to put a nail into a wall with
a hammer or the symbolic value of a hammer, the choice is clear. The
material base of products with their visual, tactile and auditive conformation
provides the firm base for the designer?s work.
With concern, one can observe the growth of a generation of designers
that obsessively focuses on symbolic aspects of products and their
equivalents in the market
"branding and self branding" and that
doesn?t know anymore how to classify joints. The search for a balance
between the instrumental/operational aspects of technical objects and
their semantic aspects constitutes the core of the designer?s work,
without privileging one or the other domain. As the historian Raimonda
Riccini writes: »The polarity between the instrumental and symbolic
dimension, between internal structure and external structure is a typical
property of artifacts, insofar as they are tools and simultaneously carriers
of values and meanings. Designers face the task to mediate between
these two polarities, by designing the form of products as result of an
interaction with the sociotechnical process.«
It is revealing that Riccini does not speak of the form of products and
their interaction with functions, that is the affordances, but that she
alludes to sociotechnical development. In this way she avoids the outdated
debate about form and function. The once secure foundations for
arriving at the configuration of products have been dissolved today ?if
ever they existed. It would be naive to presuppose the existence of a
canon of deterministic rules. He who defends such a canon, commits
the error of essentializing Platonic forms. At the same time it would be
equally naive to claim an limitless fickleness of forms that would arise
from demiurgic actions of a handful of creatively inspired designers. We
face here a paradox. To design means to deal with paradoxes and contradictions.
In a society plagued by contradictions design too is affected
them. It might be convenient to remember the dictum of Walter
Benjamin that there is no document of civilization that is not at the
same time a document of barbarism.
About Giu Bonsiepe: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearbeiten_von_Gui_Bonsiepe
In Spanish: http://www.contraindicaciones.net/2009/02/diseno-y-democracia-gui-bonsie...
In German: http://www.guibonsiepe.com/pdffiles/Demokratie_und_Gestaltung.pdf
In English:
http://www.guibonsiepe.com/pdffiles/Democracy_and_Design.pdf

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