Design culture is being transformed by collaborative practices and hybrid media forms which allow for instant feedback from user to provider, user to user and practice to practice.
In our book ‘Limited Language: Rewriting Design: Responding to a feedback culture
‘ we explore how these processes inform writing on design and how we engage with digital technology as a creative catalyst. Readers can become writers, articles provide starting points for new ideas and the immersive capabilities of the Web are used to provide a platform for design thinking.
Rewriting design in this way corrupts the boundaries between practices and so themes are explored across design, architecture, art and sonic cultures. The book – like this site – is aimed at practitioners, critics, historians and students alike, as all of these have contributed to the Limited Language project over the years.
“This is a rare book about design that embraces ideas with as much enthusiasm as objects. It illustrates its premise by showing feedback culture in action. If you find yourself wanting to join in the dialogue with thoughts of your own – and you will – their website is ready and waiting.” – “Rick Poynor”
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To start from design at all, when looking at social relationships (which includes the role of communication design [1]) is perhaps to start from the wrong end. New areas of conviviality and community are continually emerging: from ‘experiments’ in mobile living from senior citizens in Recreational Vehicle (RV) communities in the US [2] to evolving SMS languages. Where these organic communication networks differ from traditional systemic design/networks is how previously unimaginable communities have emerged: undesigned.
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Ever since the end of the 19th Century when the Romantic imagination capitulated to the powers of its long-term foil – the metropolis – the city has become the central trope of the modern imagination. 20th Century urban architecture was willowed down to a functional machine for living, cutting back the classical details of the Polis to create an iconography of Modernist materials – pristine cement, glass or steel. An iconic language that eventually, corroded and corrupted imploded into the dystopian shopping mall, housing estate or postmodern folly. Architecture is topography of both the physical city and the passageways haunted by the imagination of its inhabitants. It is in this binary of the physical and the imagination that our experience of the urban environment is constructed and contested.
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