- People interested in experiences and emotions
- return to forest/nature design, movements coming from that
' Affect in Design' - how we experience phenomena
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behaviour and behavioural changes
Dutch design movements interested in behaviour not functionality
Music video by Moniker - crowd sourced music video, gives user instructions
Almost performance art. Performative side of 'affect'.
Prevelant in idea of relation design
Conditional -> participatory design, 'prompts' - all quite political prompts
don't know agenda behind cursor
'open' design -> no constraints
trace it right through design history - Graphic Affect (Spinoza) 1677
"I shall consider the actions and emotions of man precisely as if i were studying the nature of lines, planes, and solids"
- Spinoza
Hybrid of virtual, graphic, ad actual in service of entertainment.
Suffragette movement -> chalking pavements --> non linear communications, relational, open design?
- to generate mass publicity
- ideas of circulation --> passed around through media
-'Still life with rhetoric' - Laurie Gries
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Shepherd Fairey's Obama hope image - Gries tries to find every documentation of this image - interested in how it mutates
-images encounter hostility --> mutated / permutation satirically - image muted if no one satires it
"semiotic tumbleweed circulates through different political ecosystems"
- links to Bauhaus and Black Mountain College --> performative reliant on chance factors - less of a house style
Robert Rauschenberg - 'White Paintings' -> 'receptors' -> dust and shadow
John Cage's '3 minutes of silence' -- all about chance, collisions and documenting them somehow
- Marina Abramovich
-Stefan Sagmeister
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body carving to show pain that accompanies design piece
-emotional design - half of 'affect'
transmission of felt pain - hard to watch someone hurting themselves
stages possibilities
Creating happiness by design - Stefan Sagmeister
closer interest between happiness and behaviour
- got to put yourself through ordeal to materialise concept
- other work --> room with wall removed to see the sky. The scene of the people watching the other people watch the sky is more interesting than actually looking out the window.
printed speech bubbles and stuck them around for people to engage with
- politically relational
- situation to participate in rather than a spectacle to observe
- provocation based art project rather than talking about design
