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1What is Design Research (Beyond the Expanded Field)?Design Research 2014

DESIGN RESEARCH 2014WHAT IS DESIGN RESEARCH (BEYOND THE EXPANDED FIELD)?


SEMESTER AGENDAPUSHING BEYOND ‘ESSAY’ PRODUCTS TO INSTRUMENTAL MEASURES Visual, Spatial, Material, Written


SEMESTER AGENDAREDEFINING SOCIAL, HISTORICAL, MATERIAL SYSTEMS AS PROBLEMATICS, CONSTRUCTS Visual, Spatial, Material, Written


STARTING SCHEMA (HISTORY)THE EXPANDED FIELD OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, Meyers, 1997


INTERPRETIVE STRATEGIES 1-5THE EXPANDED FIELD OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, Meyers, 1997










APPROACHES, ISSUES, EXPANSIONSTHE EXPANDED FIELD OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, Meyers, 1997

“lnstead of a static, visual landscape that is out there, irrational, irregular and open, we have a spatial, temporal, and ecological site that is present before an artist or a designer begins to work.

The designer, then, allows the site to speak more clearly through the design interventions he or she makes. The site and the designer are collaborators.”

• context from multiple sources, but tied to narrow disciplinary tools & sites (not distributed systems, policy, conflicts, etc.)

• contingency and groundedness (literal), without however exploring the construction/contribution to universals

• rediscovering disciplinary techniques for projects & proposals, but not yet looking to internal metrics or adjacent common landscape and cultural technologies (limits of agency)

• moves from a binary to first degree hybridity (as a logical schema for inquiry). how might this (and the re-inscription of ‘other’ as ‘ground’) ultimately be useful or inadequate?

• what about the residual, false unity of a ‘discipline’ and its’ attention, objects, discourses?


BEYOND 1: PROBLEMATICS & SPATIAL TURNSPOLEMICS, POLITICS, AND PROBLEMIZATIONS: AN INTERVIEW, Foucault Ed. Rabinow, 1984

FOUCAULT’S MAPPING OF HISTORY, Flynn, 1994. CULTURAL... MEANINGS OF SPACE, Wright, 2005.

“rediscover at the root of these diverse solutions the general form of problematization that has made them possible- even in their very opposition...

...it is a question of a movement of critical analysis in which one tries to see how the different solutions to a problem have been constructed; but also how these different solutions result from a specific form of problematization.”




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gallons; in London, 27f gallons; and in Philadelphia, in-

cluding all the water delivered at Fairmount, and wasted or

used freely for watering streets, ex tinguishing fires, for man-

ufactories, breweries, baths, ships, stables, & c, 28| gallons.

In regard to Philadelphia, I shall show this statement to be

over-estimated.

The following table, ex hibiting the miles of pipe laid, the

number of water tenants, and the average number of gallons

supplied daily to the whole and to each, by the Fairmount

W ater W orks, is compiled from the Reports of the W atering

Committee. I have no reports of the years not specified.

IN THE CITY ALONE.

IN THE CITY AND DISTRICTS.

Year.

Miles

Pipe.

Free.

Paying.

Total.

Miles

Pipe.

Tenants.

Average gallons

supplied daily.

Each

tenant.

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1-34

1835

1S36

1S38

1839

1840

1S41

1842

1843

1844

44

7,988

11,404

2,000.000

3.400,000

3,497,648

3,122,664

3,85 0,647

3.978,35 7

4,034,638

4,445 ,630

4,297,480

4,422,400

5 ,330,445

175

200

187

160

175

175

171

179

167

166

189

2,5 00

3,000

3,000

3,000

3,100

82i

16,805

18.704

19,678

21,947

22.636

23.462

21.628

25 ,816

26,5 19

28,082

5 4|

10,05 9

10,632

11,436

11,95 6

13,05 9

13,632

14,436

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3,300

3,300

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13,138

13,439

14,021

16,049

16,438

16,739

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117i

120|

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66£

This gives an average, for the last five years, of 175 gal-

lons ; ^ and the previous 6 years, 178 to each tenant. In 1840,

the population of the water districts was 220,423, and the

number of water tenants 23,482, which gives one tenant to

nearly 10 inhabitants, or 18 gallons to each, and not 28J , as

stated above. There were then laid about 111 miles pipe,

which gives 234 tenants to the mile. In 1844, there were

120f miles of pipe laid, and 28,082 water tenants, averaging

also 234 tenants to the mile.

The q uantity of water furnished by the Croton W orks, in

New York, is not measured. Last November, 15 5 miles of

pipe was laid there, to accommodate about 40,000 dwelling-

houses, and 310,000 inhabitants ; and there were 8,644 pay-

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BEYOND 2: DISCONTINUOUS AGENCY, & CONSTRUCTIONSREASSEMBLING THE SOCIAL (objects too have agency, matters of concern), Latour, 2005.

“the great advantage of visiting construction sites is that they offer an ideal vantage point to witness the connections between humans and non-humans...

...they lead you backstage...you are experiencing the troubling and exhilarating feeling that things could be different...

[even as] complete artificiality and complete objectivity [are] moving in parallel.”








WORKING ‘BEYOND’: ANALYSIS & AUDIENCE

Assignment 1: Unpacking Projects“ ...it is a question of a movement of critical analysis in which one tries to see how the different solutions to a problem have been constructed; but also how these different solutions result from a specific form of problematization.”

“...they lead you backstage...you are experiencing the troubling and exhilarating feeling that things could be different... [even as] complete artificiality and complete objectivity [are] moving in parallel.”


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