design and antiquarians – 4

This is a comment on the seminar series currently running between Stanford and Bard Graduate Center. [Link] [Link] This week – George Kubler’s extraordinary “Shape of time” from 1962, and the philosophy and archaeology of R.G.Collingwood [Link]. Both crossed (disciplinary) borders in looking at how we connect things and history. A key question (of pragmatography)…

design and antiquarians – schedule

Here’s the schedule for our ongoing conversation about design, design thinking and the antiquarian paradigm – history through things, collection, documentation, ethnography. [Link] – to more information I. Orientation Week 1, 23 September – What is antiquarianism? What is design? The importance of history in design. Antiquarianism as the model for the pre-disciplinary world. The…