http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1112 Publications of Auteurs John Wood fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2402 ln seeking to address a practical concern about the design of clocks, this paper also frames questions about western notions of temporality. In particular, it looks for opportunities to help designers reduce the clock's negative impact on Nature and society. The paper asks why modern clocks still use an internally referenced mechanism for defining time, noting that this inspires single-dimensional, mechanistic beliefs and processes, rather than a more organic mode of temporality. This observation is used to guide a discussion about the role of awareness and synergy, and how they might become helpful parameters for the function of clocks. The paper draws upon arguments from a range of thinkers. Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:45:14 +0200 Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:45:22 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2402 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2368 Synergy can be seen as energy liberation by systems integration, as seen in waves sharing a common 'carrier wave'. This paper studies the synergy in co-authorship, i.e. when authors experience new insights that transcend their individual understanding. Synergy couples four perspectives, each with its own 'language' of description : l) the individual viewpoint, 2) the inter-authors relationship, 3) their inner-inter-action dynamics, and 4) new meaning in the joint context. Synergising is an art. The outcomes are the unpredictable consequences of personal involvement in the process. Process integrity determines the quality of the result. It is maintained by the authors managing their feelings to regulate their input in line with what is felt to be the common intent. Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:39:08 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:48:07 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2368 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1105 This paper raises some provocative issues about the ethics of global consumerism, and the environmental damage that it causes. In calling for a deeper understanding, it takes as its starting point the consumer's experience of motion, reminding us that technological consumerism itself is now 'designed' as a system of flow, with hopes and desires becoming regularized as an anticipation for product innovation. This routine tends to impede the way we notice and appreciate what we already have. In this respect, designers, producers, and consumers can therefore be understood collectively as an anticipatory system. Many responsible designers welcome the advent of a ' post-industrial' society in which we focus on services, rather than upon material products. However, the paper suggests that this approach may be counterproductive. In taking a phenomenological perspective, it reminds us that the consumer's anticipation is manipulated to induce faster economic growth. Unfortunately, virtual products are almost always used to promote products that are more material. In addressing these issues, the paper argues that our culture assumes that 'ends' justify the 'means' and reminds us that the teleological mindset of classical science helped to deliver both the beneficial, and the damaging consequences of the technological society. In seeking to address these issues, the paper recommends that design practitioners challenge the strongly instrumentalist, teleological, and therefore anticipatory understanding of design itself. It therefore explores contradictions in the way we understand temporality, especially in discrepancies between categorical logic, and the heuristics of flow. Several alternative suggestions are offered as a way to reframe these problems. Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:32:50 +0200 Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:32:59 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1105