TY - JOUR

T1 - Non-discursive philosophy by imagining new practices through design

AU - Hummels, Caroline

AU - van der Zwan, Sander

AU - Smith, Maarten

AU - Bruineberg, Jelle

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2021.

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - In this commentary on Rietveld’s inaugural lecture, we exemplify with one of our design cases for project Expedition RWS 2050, how Rietveld’s and our method are complementary. Within this project, RWS invited us to contribute our design skills and make relevant future scenarios experienceable. To scaffold imaginative discussions about everyday life in 2050 with a cross-section of the Dutch population, we wrote seven short speculative stories and designed a set of physical discussion tools. When looking at this design case and the cases Rietveld describes in his inaugural lecture, one can see that we both are guided by and contributing to the development of ecological and enactive philosophy, which rejects the dichotomy between sensorimotor and higher cognition. In his approach, Rietveld pushes the boundaries of the affordances of the material during the making process, whereas we predominantly investigate the affordances of the things and practices which we have designed. Despite these differences, we are both pursuing engagement with philosophical practice through non-discursive means while imagining new sociomaterial practices.

AB - In this commentary on Rietveld’s inaugural lecture, we exemplify with one of our design cases for project Expedition RWS 2050, how Rietveld’s and our method are complementary. Within this project, RWS invited us to contribute our design skills and make relevant future scenarios experienceable. To scaffold imaginative discussions about everyday life in 2050 with a cross-section of the Dutch population, we wrote seven short speculative stories and designed a set of physical discussion tools. When looking at this design case and the cases Rietveld describes in his inaugural lecture, one can see that we both are guided by and contributing to the development of ecological and enactive philosophy, which rejects the dichotomy between sensorimotor and higher cognition. In his approach, Rietveld pushes the boundaries of the affordances of the material during the making process, whereas we predominantly investigate the affordances of the things and practices which we have designed. Despite these differences, we are both pursuing engagement with philosophical practice through non-discursive means while imagining new sociomaterial practices.

KW - design

KW - imagination

KW - Non-discursive philosophy

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85104755177&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/10597123211006463

DO - 10.1177/10597123211006463

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85104755177

VL - 30

SP - 537

EP - 540

JO - Adaptive Behavior

JF - Adaptive Behavior

SN - 1059-7123

IS - 6

ER -