dc.contributor.author |
Reyburn, Duncan
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dc.contributor.author |
Kirstein, Marno
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dc.date.accessioned |
2016-05-03T10:45:05Z |
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dc.date.available |
2016-05-03T10:45:05Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2015 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This article explores the way that design ought to be narrated and legitimated
within the context of the South African design industry. Special attention is given
to the presence of disavowal in the design process, when clients commission
designers to effect change for them, yet second-guess, mistrust, and scrutinise
the proposed design solutions. Our grappling with this problem is done with
reference to Nelson and Stolterman’s concept of the ‘guarantor of design’ or
g.o.d. and the contexts and considerations that affect how this g.o.d. is selected,
constructed, and deployed. Both practical and ideological factors are negotiated
as ways to understand these contexts and considerations, and, thereafter, the
significance of empathy is highlighted as a means to tackle the various disjunctions
that tend to arise in the scripting of the drama of design. |
en_ZA |
dc.description.department |
Visual Arts |
en_ZA |
dc.description.librarian |
am2016 |
en_ZA |
dc.description.uri |
http://www.imageandtext.up.ac.za |
en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation |
Reyburn, D & Kirstein, M 2015, 'G.o.d. and the deus ex machina', Image and Text, no. 26, pp. 66-91. |
en_ZA |
dc.identifier.issn |
1020-1497 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/52239 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
en_ZA |
dc.publisher |
University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts |
en_ZA |
dc.rights |
University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts |
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dc.subject |
Design research |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Best practice |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Client-designer relationship |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Guarantor of design (g.o.d.) |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Design and ideology |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Empathy |
en_ZA |
dc.title |
G.o.d. and the deus ex machina |
en_ZA |
dc.type |
Article |
en_ZA |