Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] critical making and theoretical ideas

Many thanks Ken
nina

Quoting Ken Friedman <ken.friedman.sheji@icloud.com>:

> Dear All,
>
> The journal Visible Language has just published a special issue on
> Critical Making. The journal web site is:
>
> http://visiblelanguagejournal.com
>
> This is the December 2015 issue, edited by Jessica Barness and Amy
> Papaelias. The issue is titled
>
> Critical Making. Design and the Digital Humanities.
>
> The Visible Language web site is about to go through a major upgrade
> and renewal, with the contents of the first 50 years of this fine
> journal made available open access following a short embargo period
> on current contents.
>
> Founded half a century ago, Visible Language is the oldest design
> journal in the world. For those interested in design, it is worth a
> look — especially with the full contents accessible as open access
> documents.
>
> Happy New Year,
>
> Ken Friedman
>
> Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The
> Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji
> University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL:
> http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/
>
> Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and
> Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University
> Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne
> University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia
>
>
>
>
>> On 2016Jan03, at 11:50, roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> yasminers
>>
>> i thought i would mention, with respect to the discussion on critical
>> making that colette tron and nina czgledy started last year
>>
>> … Critical Making , can then be seen as individual and group practices
>> which are cumulatively transformative-
>> in a continuum with the theoretical basis for 'open' systems and
>> higher order cybernetics=
>> at this time of strange return to medieval battles around religious
>> ideologies, these
>> three authors are wonderfully optimistic and convinced that we can go
>> beyond the agenda defined for us, to an agenda
>> where by understanding the systems of control ( not in a foucautlian
>> sense) we can intervene and leap frog over the return
>> to old obscurantisms
>>
>> as you can gather i share this optimism- and happy new year and look
>> forward to 'making" a saner world
>>
>> i look forward to hearing from yasminers what other framing
>> theoretical and philosophical ideas are relevant
>>
>> roger malina
>
>
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