week4-zine

In between the words that we have chosen to visualise I have gotten the word embodied.
I started of with the general research and afterwards I started the analogue collaging process. I have decided to work this week again with analogue collaging but then still incorporate digital elements.

what does embodied mean?

what is the definition of embodiment?

What is critical making?
-describe the combination of critical thinking with hands-on making—a kind of pedagogical practice that uses material engagements with technologies to open up and extend critical social reflection
-‘critical thinking,’often considered as abstract, explicit, linguistically based, internal and cognitively individualistic; and ‘making,’ typically understood as material, tacit, embodied, external and community-oriented
-similarities to the practice of critical design, a term popularized by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby

Critical design:
-comes from the background of industrial design and builds objects that work to challenge the narrow conventions and biases that products play in daily life, empowering for the user
-focused on building industrial design prototypes
-focused on building refined objects to generate critique of traditional industrial design
-focused on building objects that document well, with the artifacts themselves challenging concepts like optimization,efficiency, social norms, and utopianism
-object-oriented

Critical making:
-constructive process of making as opposed to building an artifact
-initially conceived as a workshop framework with the final prototypes existing only as a remnant of the process
-process-oriented and scholarship-oriented

Eight Missing Projects of the Makers Generation: Jolliffe
Abortion drone
-the Abortion Drone flies abortion pills from one country to women in another country, using the different legislations and regulations it makes the reality of women in countries where abortion is restricted visible by creating access to the abortion pills

79% work clock
-the 79% Work Clock calls attention to the gender wage gap in America, studies show that women who work full-time are paid only 79% of what men make annually, so the 79% Work, clock lets you know when 79% of the work day has passed, when a woman hears its chime, she might as well go home

I was really confused about what embodied means, because there was none specific definition for it but several separate ones which I had to connect in order to get a full picture.

-the carver making wooden objects initiates and experiences a making process (Michl & Dunin-Woyseth, 2001), in which a material is given a new form and/or function, this process is embodied (Rosch, Thompson, & Varela, 1991), in the sense that the physiological, bodily process and the abstract, cognitive process are intertwined and are not separable from each other
-we not only experience what the material is and what we are doing in the current situation but shape the phenomenon itself through our intentions: “It is a perceptual field opening to the human body”
-designers communicate affective meanings through their designs, many of these are grounded in bodily experience, giving shape to human-product interaction

-products are material objects that we physically interact with and these interactions are constrained by our sensory and bodily characteristics
-embodiment may be associated with the common practice of imitating facial expressions in product appearance, for example, a joyful face in an Alessi product
-embodiment may be used in relation to different types of phenomena (cf. Wilson, 2002)
-distinction between more concrete and abstract types of embodiment in design

Four types of embodiment in product design:
-athropomorphism, familiiarity and literal resemblances
-relational properties, image schemas and symbolic meaning
-meaningful sensorial experiences
-embodiment in product movement and action

(http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/1670/673)

-I took pictures of several collages that I have made but I had hard time deciding which parts would represent embodied the most and what is not going to be too literal
-at the end I decided to just combine several pictures and incorporate some red curved lines to connect all of them into one
-the yellow on the right underneath the text turned out as a green even though it supposed to be yellow
-the embodied meaning should be a bit more in the front

Disobedient electronics: Hertz
-industrial design - and the creation of experimental electronic objects is a useful tool to communicate complex issues
-affirmative design should be questioned, the larger issues of human rights, racism, sexism, pollution, etc. seem to weigh in as more pressing topics in 2017 (in other words, design can be how to punch Nazis in the face, minus the punching)

This project aims to point out that:
-building electronic objects can be an effective form of social argument or political protest
-DIY, maker culture and local artisinal productions can have strong nationalist and protectionist components to them
-critical and Speculative Design (Dunne & Raby) are worthwhile approaches within industrial design, but perhaps not adversarial enough
-trying to make progressive arguments and facts more legible and engaging to a wide and diverse audience
-larger issues of what it means to be a human or a society needs to be directly confronted