The Social Object LINK

The aim of the author has been to silence the voice of the designer to allow the accounts of objects to emerge as periodic irruptions that reveal a hidden maelstrom of passion, ideas and ailed projects. The book opens with the biography of a project dealing with waste, leading the reader to a very particular kind of object, the bads. This object is illicit, handled by criminals and in the writing by the author serves to invert the dominant discourse of objects as commodities. This book makes the case that the program of design is better seen as a democratic community, where the householders, the zietgiest, technology and all manner of hidden agents collide to allow unforseen periodic objects to emerge.

The Social Life of Things LINK

The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of circulation, the essays illuminate the ways in which people find value in things and things give value to social relations. By looking at things as if they lead social lives, the authors provide a new way to understand how value is externalized and sought after.

This is a 17 minute session. It is me musing about what Independent Study could be when located within a design context.

This year I have reframed Industrial Design as being in 3 parts. Social Innovation + Technical Innovation + Designer Maker. That is it.

In this way we lay to rest the practice of referring to Industrial Design bits with Product Names. Or category Names. Or transient names aka fashionable names.

https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2024/05/12/pure-design-and-abloh/

For details look up - https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2024/05/09/first-person-singular/

It is May 2024. I have mentioned the acronym i.e. ID. I have been asked to provide a voice note explaining this process.

Description section and resources coming soon.

Link: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/can-you-tell-me-about-a-masters-by-research-and-a-phd/

Site 'PhD with Soumitri': https://sites.google.com/view/phdwithsoumitri/home

I had a conversation with a friend. About the creative period. As being in the 20s. That the Beatles and Keats both had their best works in that period.

This is a podcast about project design. Or the typology of projects - aka what are the types of projects. Or what are the 5 types that all projects can be classified into.

See more here - https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2023/08/06/the-smeis-typology/