Design Theorists
According to this theorist, commodities are 'spooky' because they are fetishized.
Who is Karl Marx
This theory explores how design can force people to self-discipline.
What is panopticism?
Unlike the medical and social models of disability theory, this third approach highlights the possible advantages or gains that those differently abled might have.
What is the critical model?
Shannon Mattern argues that instead of innovation, design should focus on this activity:
What is the maintenance?
This theorist explored the nature and effects of focusing on 'branding' rather than on production.
Who is Naomi Klein?
In his thinking about commodity fetishism, Marx distinguishes between a use-theory of value and this.
What is the labor theory of value?
This concept refers to the idea of disentangling an object from involvement with fossil fuels and pollutants.
What is 'de-acceleration'?
This recently built structure might exemplify the inherent ableism in society.
What is the Vessel?
This Parsons professor explores the phenomenon of fast-fashion
Who is Cristina Moon?
This theory explores the many ways in which people can be subject to forms of oppression.
What is intersectionality / intersectional theory?
This concept refers to a way of viewing and understanding other cultures as 'exotic' and 'wild' oftentimes in an effort to profit from them.
What is orientalism?
Foucault's theory of panopticism is exemplified in three kinds of buildings. Prisons, and these other two.
What are hospitals and schools?
This theorist explores power and architecture by studying the architecture of prisons
Who is Michel Foucault?
This theory takes a negative view of the development of human artifacts, arguing that they will inevitably lead to the destruction of the planet.
What is Techno-pessimism?
This concept believes that a society's entire social reality is a result of their technological advance.
What is technological determinism?
This structure, while not racist in its functioning, was shown to ultimately contribute to the racist structuring of society, as its designer intended it to.
What are the low highway overpasses leading to long island, NY.
This theorist explores the possible hypocrisy in so-called 'humanitarian design'
Who is Mahmoud Keshavarz?
In his "Time-Work discipline and Industrial capitalism", E.P Thomson distinguishes these two notions of time.
What are clock time and lived time?
Although seemingly a-political, our lecture showed that due to its involvement with complicated forms of urban infrastructure, this basic natural element can be quite political.
What is water?
As we saw in our class reading, this machine contributes to a normative gender binary in society.
What is the TSA body scanner?