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“It's So Normal, And … Meaningful.” Playing With Narrative, Artifacts, And Cultural Difference In Florence, Dheepa Sundaram, Owen Gottlieb Aug 2022

“It's So Normal, And … Meaningful.” Playing With Narrative, Artifacts, And Cultural Difference In Florence, Dheepa Sundaram, Owen Gottlieb

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This article considers how player interactions with religious and ethnic markers, create

a globalized game space in the mobile game Florence (2018). Florence is a multiaward-

winning interactive novella game with story-integrated minigames that weave

play experiences into the narrative. The game, in part, explores love, loss, and

rejuvenation as relatable experiences. Simultaneously, the game produces a unique

experience for each player, as they can refract the game narrative through their own

cultural, identitarian lens. The game assumes the shared cultural space of the player,

the player-character (PC), and the non-player-character (NPC) while blurring the

boundaries between each of these …


The Data City, The Idiom And Questions Of Locality, Noel Fitzpatrick Jul 2020

The Data City, The Idiom And Questions Of Locality, Noel Fitzpatrick

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The paper aims to provide both a radical critique of the “smart city” as a techno-ideological apparatus,that through data analysis and algorithmic forms of governmentality tends to colonize space and time, and an attempt to reframe the very concept of intelligence within the smart cities. Two concepts are presented as tools for such a reframing: locality and idiom, where the first is conceived as openness of meaning generated by a territory, while the latter,analysed througha paradigmatic Irish example (Friel’s play Translations), prepares the ground for the pars construensof the paper. The claim, built by intertwining a set of authors (Ricoeur, …


An Introduction To Positive Sum Design, Ian Gonsher Jan 2017

An Introduction To Positive Sum Design, Ian Gonsher

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Post Critical Again, Charlie Cannon Jan 2016

Post Critical Again, Charlie Cannon

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Introduction To Making Futures, Pelle Ehn Jan 2016

Introduction To Making Futures, Pelle Ehn

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Double Or Nothing: Reflections On Bridge Design, Hillary Brown Jan 2016

Double Or Nothing: Reflections On Bridge Design, Hillary Brown

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Positive Sum Design And The Economics Of Sharing, Ian Gonsher Jan 2016

Positive Sum Design And The Economics Of Sharing, Ian Gonsher

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What Makes A Technology Appropriate?, Barrett Hazeltine Jan 2015

What Makes A Technology Appropriate?, Barrett Hazeltine

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A Company Town, Daniel Peltz, Sheridan Coleman Jan 2015

A Company Town, Daniel Peltz, Sheridan Coleman

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Urban Eden, Anne Tate Jan 2015

Urban Eden, Anne Tate

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Critical Design And The Critical Social Sciences, Damian White Jan 2015

Critical Design And The Critical Social Sciences, Damian White

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Matafunctional/Metafictional Objects, Paolo Cardini Jan 2015

Matafunctional/Metafictional Objects, Paolo Cardini

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Design For Transitions - From And To What?, Cameron Tonkinwise Jan 2015

Design For Transitions - From And To What?, Cameron Tonkinwise

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On Creative Dialectics, Ian Gonsher Jan 2015

On Creative Dialectics, Ian Gonsher

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Symbolic Misery And Aesthetics- Bernard Stiegler, Noel Fitzpatrick Oct 2014

Symbolic Misery And Aesthetics- Bernard Stiegler, Noel Fitzpatrick

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In this article I will deal with the development of a theory of aesthetics within the work of the French contemporary philosopher Bernard Stiegler with particular reference to his concept of symbolic misery. Rather than give an extensive account of Bernard Stiegler’s aesthetics this article will focus on some key concepts mobilized in the definition and analysis of symbolic misery. Firstly, I will argue that Stiegler’s understanding of the aesthetic comes from an expanded notion of aesthesis, where the political and the aesthetic are mobilized together. In this regard I will interrogate some key concepts in his work Symbolic Misery …


The Literature Of Political Things And Places: Reading And Writing Design, Susan Yelavich Jan 2014

The Literature Of Political Things And Places: Reading And Writing Design, Susan Yelavich

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Rhyme Or Reason:That Is The Question?, Jim Roche Aug 2012

Rhyme Or Reason:That Is The Question?, Jim Roche

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Noting that “the aesthetic should not be limited merely to the way things look” the organisers of this conference sought “in part to address the discursive limitation in architecture and related subjects by broadening the aesthetic discourse beyond questions relating to purely visual phenomena in order to include those derived from all facets of human experience”.

So where does etchics come in? Well, the introductory brochure noted that most philosophical trained aestheticians will say that “the aesthetic is everything” hinting perhaps of the necessity for a more haptic experience of architecture. It also drew on Wittgenstein’s quote that “ethics and …