{"title":"Le Corbusier's Postcard Collection: Poetical Assemblage as a “Porous” Classification System","authors":"Luis Burriel Bielza","doi":"10.14434/artifact.v4i1.13130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/artifact.v4i1.13130","url":null,"abstract":"Le Corbusier collected about 2,300 postcards throughout all of his life but he always kept them secretly stored in his apartment. They are nowadays held in the archives of the Fondation Le Corbusier, filed by geographic origin. However, this system is not suited to unravel its signification. Through a new associative layout, this article strives to highlight its proper value and aspires to place them fully connected to his other creative tools. Accompanied by his paintings, sketches, writings, and architecture, they will all reveal Le Corbusier’s capacity to synthesize subjects and concepts regardless of time and space. Stability and transition are the guiding keys to jump from image to image, at the same time charged with the power of evoking the tradition and building the present. The concept of “poetical assemblage” will prove that three main goals are intermingled in growing degrees: inspiration, education and verification.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129458741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Generalized Image: Imagery Beyond Representation in Early Avant-Garde Film","authors":"Ulrik Schmidt","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V4I1.13371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V4I1.13371","url":null,"abstract":"How could we think of images that are neither figurative nor abstract, or perhaps are both at the same time? How could we think of images that are not either signifying and representational or non-signifying and non-representational but rather a-signifying and a-representational in the sense that they operate and find expression beyond the very question of signification and representation? The aim of this text is to explore the key elements in such imagery beyond representation. I will investigate the issue by revisiting a series of iconic images in early 1920s avant-garde film by the artists Man Ray and Fernand Léger. On this background, and in dialogue with film theorists and philosophers such as Malcolm Le Grice and Gilles Deleuze, I outline the basic properties and aesthetic potentials of what I term the generalized image as an imagery that operates and affects beyond the very question of representation.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134598306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning by doing with images and words","authors":"Henrik Oxvig, J. Bäcklund, Martin Søberg","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V4I1.23934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V4I1.23934","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125340026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Launching Architecture Through the Image","authors":"Claus Bohn","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V4I1.13126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V4I1.13126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133820402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local Real(i)ties: A Contemporary Image of Thought","authors":"H. Frichot","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V4I1.13372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V4I1.13372","url":null,"abstract":"Noopolitics is a neologism that designates how minds (nous) come to think collaboratively at the scale of populations, a phenomenon facilitated by increasingly sophisticated information societies and their capacity for instantaneous electronic communications. Noopolitics complements the already well-established term biopolitics, which designates how the lives and deaths, and general health and well-being of individuals are managed at the scale of populations through practices of governance. What happens when a noopolitics rigidifies, what kinds of effects does it produce? A dogmatic Image of Thought understood as an ossified status quo takes hold, over-determining how people think together and about themselves, and about their worlds, including their local environment-worlds. In relation to an expanded understanding of the spatialities of feeling that architecture contributes to, this essay will focus in particular on the noopolitics at work in the production of architectural imagery where it becomes indistinguishable from real-estate imagery. The compelling case this essay will address is the emergence of the styled real-estate image in the Stockholm context where a large proportion of rental properties have been quite abruptly released onto the real-estate market place over just the last ten years. What is remarkable about the flood of images that have been made available for consumption is their consistency, even their homogeneity, and while Stockholm, with a focus on the inner city island of Södermalm, may prove to be a special case, what is aptly demonstrated through a noourbanography that attempts to map these images is how a dogmatic Image of Thought has taken hold that drives what a local population comes to expect in terms of the curation of their homes and local neighborhoods.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127869187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Construction Site Sides","authors":"Ivar Tønsberg","doi":"10.14434/artifact.v3i4.22752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/artifact.v3i4.22752","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125663405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design, Knowledge, and Ignorance. Jude Chua's presentation for the Design Concept Conference","authors":"J. Chua","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I4.22517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I4.22517","url":null,"abstract":"The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation held a one-day conference discussing t he design concept on 26 August 2016. This is Jude Chua's presentation of his article, \"Design Without Final Goals: Getting Around Our Bounded Rationality.\"","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115483537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Graphic Design for the Real World?: Visual communication’s potential in design activism and design for social change","authors":"Katrin Elisabeth Bichler, S. Beier","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I4.12974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I4.12974","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines graphic design’s role within design activism. It outlines design activism in general and its relation to commercial design culture in a consumerist economy. Thereafter it discusses persuasive tendencies in graphic design and questions if its current contribution to design activism is limited to its predominant narrow role of persuading for “the good cause.” To illustrate the hypothesis that such a persuasive approach lacks activist potential and thus social impact, cases that represent traditional graphic-design activism are compared to alternative approaches with an informative rather than persuasive character. The latter cases exemplify how information design can challenge the status quo and range from conventional leaflets to interactive tools and data visualizations. The discussion explores how these cases work as a non-commercial service to its audience, rather than solely solving communicative problems for commissioning clients. It is argued that in this way visual communication can intervene into problems on a functional level, similarly to artifacts from design disciplines such as architecture and industrial or product design.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126932354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and the function of art","authors":"Anders Brix","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I4.12816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I4.12816","url":null,"abstract":"Western thought tends to categorically separate art from “mere” artefacts: The arts serve no function except for aesthetic contemplation, while artefacts are functional objects intended for a specific purpose. This separation has caused some confusion as to the field of design, which may sometimes belong to either and at other times neither: not really art but not just utility. Thus the concept of design has fluctuated between the putative luxury of art and the practical necessity of technology. The beaux-art view saw design as an art form in its own right. Contemporary views, in contrast, tend to emphasize design’s capacities for problem solving, innovation and the like—to the extent of turning design itself into a “mere tool” for economic growth. This article examines how the art-artefact dichotomy, rooted in the notion of “function,” permeates contemporary design discourse. Through discussion of two examples, it reveals some of the logical inconsistencies the dichotomy gives rise to. Having demonstrated the shortcomings of such separation, it turns to discuss its origin in thought: Language separates, while things, as such, are whole. Further discussion of even more examples attempts to show how our perception of things is governed and directed by our discourses, and how this may cause us to overlook important features of both things in general and the potential of design in particular.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130029959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}