Krippendorff The Semantic Turn

A New Foundation for Design
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-134-35423-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Responding to cultural demands for meaning, user-friendliness, and fun as well as the opportunities of the emerging information society, The Semantic Turn boldly outlines a new science for design that gives designers previously unavailable grounds on which to state their claims and validate their designs. It sets the stage by reviewing the history of semantic concerns in design, presenting their philosophical roots, examining the new social and technological challenges that professional designers are facing, and offering distinctions among contemporary artifacts that challenge designers. Written by Klaus Krippendorff, recognized designer and distinguished scholar of communication and language use, the book builds an epistemological bridge between language/communication theory and human-centered conceptions of contemporary artifacts. Clarifying how the semantic turn goes beyond product semantics and differs from other approaches to meaning, Krippendorff develops four new theories of how artifacts make sense and presents a series of meaning-sensitive design methods, illustrated by examples, and evaluative techniques that radically depart from the functionalist and technology-centered tradition in design. An indispensable guide for the future of the design profession, this book outlines not only a science for design that encourages asking and answering new kinds of questions, it also provides concepts and a vocabulary that enables designers to better partner with the more traditional disciplines of engineering, ergonomics, ecology, cognitive science, information technology, management, and marketing.

Zielgruppe

Industrial, communication, and interface designers;  engineers, ergonomists, cognitive scientists, and market researchers concerned with meaning, usability, and aesthetics;  design managers, researchers, and educators;  communication scholars, ecologists, and philosophers of technology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krippendorff, Klaus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Produktdesign, Industriedesign

Inhaltsverzeichnis

History and Aim

Brief History of Product Semantics

Trajectory of Artificiality

The Changing Environment of Design

Redesigning Design (Discourse) Basic concepts of human-centered design

Predecessors

The Axiomaticity of Meaning

Sense, Meaning, and Context

Stakeholders in Design

Second-Order Understanding

Ethics in a Design Culture Meaning of Artifacts in Use

Interfaces

Disruptions and Usability

Recognition

Explorations

Reliance

Design Principles Meaning of Artifacts in Language

Language

Categories

Characters

Identities

Verbal Metaphors

Narratives

Culture Meanings in the Lives of Artifacts

Life Cycles

Stakeholder Networks

Projects

Genetic Meanings

Critical Sizes of Supportive Communities

Whole Life Cycle Accounting Meanings in an Ecology of Artifacts

Ecology

Ecology of Artifacts

Ecological Meanings

Technological Cooperatives

Mythology

Design methods, research, and a science for design

A New Science for Design

Methods for Creating Spaces of Possible Futures

Methods for Inquiring into Stakeholders’ Concepts and Motivations

Human-Centered Design Methods

Validating Semantic Claims

Advancing Design Discourse Distantiations

Semiotics

Cognitivism

Ergonomics

Aesthetics

Functionalism

Marketing

Textualism Roots in the Ulm School of Design?

Bill’s Functionalism

Bense’s Information Philosophy

Maldonado’s Semiotics

Chernyshevsky’s Political Economy of Aesthetics

Rittel’s Methodology

Barriers to Considerations of Meaning and Some Exceptions REFERENCES INDEX