Designing for affect through affective matter
This paper examines how affect moves us and specifically, how we can design affective environments rather than use affect as a tool for interpretation, analysis or description. In architecture, affect, for the most part, continues a Spinozean-Deleuzian lineage of recognising affect as prior to, or...
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2014-03-01
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This paper examines how affect moves us and specifically, how we can design affective environments rather than use affect as a tool for interpretation, analysis or description. In architecture, affect, for the most part, continues a Spinozean-Deleuzian lineage of recognising affect as prior to, or autonomous from, emotion and a subject-centred account of the world. This paper considers affect as a potentially materialized and localizable condition capable of being designed for. The paper develops two positions relative to materiality: firstly, a review of theoretical discourse on affect in the context of new materialism; and secondly, an examination of the pedagogical potential of affective and atmospheric materialities via design strategies we have called de-materializing, diagramming, and re-materializing. In conclusion, we offer some observations regarding the potential to design for affect to move us.
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| spelling | doaj.art-7051aec4ea2e424c99e6cdd34080aabc2022-12-22T00:12:23Zengenigma : he aupiki charitable trustInterstices2537-91942014-03-0110.24135/ijara.v0i0.479Designing for affect through affective matterAkari KiddJan Smitheram This paper examines how affect moves us and specifically, how we can design affective environments rather than use affect as a tool for interpretation, analysis or description. In architecture, affect, for the most part, continues a Spinozean-Deleuzian lineage of recognising affect as prior to, or autonomous from, emotion and a subject-centred account of the world. This paper considers affect as a potentially materialized and localizable condition capable of being designed for. The paper develops two positions relative to materiality: firstly, a review of theoretical discourse on affect in the context of new materialism; and secondly, an examination of the pedagogical potential of affective and atmospheric materialities via design strategies we have called de-materializing, diagramming, and re-materializing. In conclusion, we offer some observations regarding the potential to design for affect to move us. https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/interstices/index.php/Interstices/article/view/479 |
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