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About the Word Design - Coggle Diagram
About the Word Design
Etymology
means to
de-sign
Noun :
'intention', 'plan', 'basic structure', etc.
Verb :
'to design', 'to craft', 'to simulate', 'to have designs on something', etc.
Latin Origin :
signum
meaning 'sign'.
Modern Bourgeois Culture :
sharp devision between the world of arts and technology and machines
Scientific, quantifiable and hard
Aesthetic, evaluative and soft
Cunning and Deceit
: trick people into deceiving people of ideas
Machines/Mechanics :
Greek word
Mechos
means devised to deceive, Example lever cheats the gravity and mechanics tricks of fooling heavy bodies
Technology :
betray and destroy the ideas when they convert it into tangible forms
The Greek
techne
means 'art' :
giving form to shapeless material
The Latin
techne
means 'ars' :
to turn something to one's benefit
Artifex:
i.e. 'artist', means trickster above all.
Design :
bridging the gap
Forms a culture :
by making internal connection between art and technology and is aware of its deceptive nature
Who/What are we deceiving ? :
to deceive the nature by means of technology, replacing the natural elements with the artifical ones and build a machine.
Design replacing the ideas
Example :
plastic pens are very cheap, have no importance of the material they are made of, the only value is their design, the reason for which it is able to write.
Design is coming together of great ideas, derived from art and science have cross fertilized and creatively complemented one another