![objects / selves / interfaces Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects Prasad Boradkar 2010 Boradkar also points to the fact that [design] workers in capitalism (that’s us) run the risk of having the products of their labour alienated from them … … because it is the exploitation of the surplus value of labour that leads to profit … … and today the value of commodities is, increasingly, value created by designers. This is why it is so important to design a degree of autonomy in your design practice.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/005practiceinterfaceselfobject-110216193614-phpapp01/85/005practice-interface-self_object-5-320.jpg)
![objects / selves / interfaces To go back to Michel Foucault’s work, the ethical goal of this design[ed] lifestyle would be to develop what he calls a ‘splendid ethos’ … … an exemplary and admirable life of freedom for the self, and for others, to enjoy. This is a style of life firmly grounded in life , in knowledge of one’s life and in knowledge of one’s lively appetites … … it is not guilt, judgment, shame etc. as in the deeply institutionalized Christian ethos (Cf. Foucault).](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/005practiceinterfaceselfobject-110216193614-phpapp01/85/005practice-interface-self_object-7-320.jpg)
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- 4. objects / selves / interfaces Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects Prasad Boradkar 2010 Boradkar struggles with the design field’s tendency to ‘forget’ the humanity and even the agency of objects: every- thing humans make contains traces of its production … … but the sheer overwhelming volume of disposable goods surrounding us makes empathy with this human-trace very difficult: … and it is also massively and systematically trivialized by the landfill site.
- 5. objects / selves / interfaces Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects Prasad Boradkar 2010 Boradkar also points to the fact that [design] workers in capitalism (that’s us) run the risk of having the products of their labour alienated from them … … because it is the exploitation of the surplus value of labour that leads to profit … … and today the value of commodities is, increasingly, value created by designers. This is why it is so important to design a degree of autonomy in your design practice.
- 7. objects / selves / interfaces To go back to Michel Foucault’s work, the ethical goal of this design[ed] lifestyle would be to develop what he calls a ‘splendid ethos’ … … an exemplary and admirable life of freedom for the self, and for others, to enjoy. This is a style of life firmly grounded in life , in knowledge of one’s life and in knowledge of one’s lively appetites … … it is not guilt, judgment, shame etc. as in the deeply institutionalized Christian ethos (Cf. Foucault).
- 9. objects / selves / interfaces How do we design practice and practice design … … in a context of stressed out, fragmented, profaned modern life? Is creativity possible in the context of the extreme industrial rationality we live in? What is affirmative design practice in this context?
- 16. objects / selves / interfaces Is there life beyond the brand? Is there life beyond the ‘experience economy’? Is there a place for the sacred in design practice?
- 17. gary hustwit / objectified