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Metaphors result in Technology (?) Kees Doevendans Darmstadt, 22-03-02
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USO-Built Multi-disciplinary network α-, β- and γ-sciences inter- or trans-disciplinary approach intentional, structural and functional dimension
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USO-Built as δ δ-science: to interweave α-, β- and γ- sciences and dimensions by design and research or even: Research by Design? We are a δ of different scientific cultures Next step: α + β + γ + δ = Σ -science ?
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Science Modernity: strong tendency to natural science Technology: applied science Idealization of natural science: generalization, rejection of case studies
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Counter tendency phenomenology vs natural science ideographic vs nomothetical intuition, instinct vs empirical Verstehen vs Erklären Imagination vs description Phronetic science
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Reflexive Modernity (Ulrich Beck): Hermeneutic and aesthetic reflexivity (Scott Lash) Phronesis: H-G. Gadamer
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Phronesis Episteme: Scientific knowledge. Universal, invariable, context-independent. Based on general analytical rationality. Techne: Craft/art. Pragmatic, variable, context-dependent. Oriented toward production. Based on practical instrumental rationality governed by a conscious goal. Phronesis: Ethics. Deliberation about values with reference to praxis. Pragmatic, variable, context- dependent. Oriented toward action. Based on practical value-rationality.
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Scientific development β: let us make a new measurement versus: α: let us find a new metaphor or: natural sciences also based on metaphors?
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Narrative science John Milbank (1990): All science is narrative science, even natural science, so: distinction between Verstehen and Erklaren is a mistake
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Language If science is narrative science, we have to do with language Problem of modernity: to link speech and reality, speech and phenomenon Metaphor is instrument to bridge the gap Metaphor is kind of pre-scientific concept
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O.M. Ungers as example Morphologie - City Metaphors (1982) 1Phenomenon 2Metaphor 3Naming of the phenomenon based on the metaphor
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‘Naming’ If you cannot name it, it does not exist ‘Naming and Necessity’ (Saul Kripke); possibilism versus actualism Research by Design seen as creation of possible worlds, versus: Phronetic science as actualism?
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Vidler as example: root metaphors 1st typology: nature - city as garden, urban designer as gardener - mimesis 2nd typology: city is a machine, the root metaphor for functionalism 3th typology: city is history - ontology, morphology 4th typology: ?
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Burgess (1) ‘The Growth of a City’ Natural science was key metaphor City is a living organism, a human body, a plant community
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Burgess (2) Rhetoric power to link the city to natural science Metaphor was general concept for cities Metaphor structured approach: form and process
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Ontology of difference Nietzsche: scientific concept is worn-out metaphor > Crisis of (scientific) re-presentation > Withdraw from, deconstruct the metaphor, see the between the phenomenon and the scientific object made of it > Find new metaphors
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Metaphor &Technology I ‘Root metaphor’ The Heavenly Jerusalem: bleuprint planning, man took God’s place (modernism) Babel: disturbed culture (postmodernism)
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Metaphor & Technology II Technology is applied natural science Natural science is based on metaphors
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Metaphor &Technology IIIa Paradigms 20th Century Paradigm: City as a living organism, city as machine were the key metaphors of 20th century urbanism: organic modernism Grounded on this metaphors the functionalist paradigm was developed
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Metaphor &Technology IIIb This paradigm became a technology in its post-paradigmatic period (finalized science) Finalized science, based on a worn-out metaphor; accepted technology has lost its meaning; postmodern technology?
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Metaphor & Technology IV Technology = Design Design = design philosophy based on metaphors Deleuze / Guattari / Sap: New metaphors, new ontology, new design philosophy: Smooth - Striated Space, The Fold, Territory, Event, Plane, Rhizome, State … etc.
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Paradigm shift: New Metaphors City as history: the city as artifact The city as text, palimpsest (narrative science!) The city is a landscape The city is a body without organs The city is not a tree, but a rhizome
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User-Orientation Combination of modes, dimensions IRU 1: Intentional - Structural IRU 2: Structural - Functional IRU 3: Functional - Intentional
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User-Orientation IRU 1 Intentional mode: Design of the User by Metaphors? The User = The Other (the Flaneur, the Dandy, the Vagabond, the Citizen, the Cyborg, the Nomad, the Tourist….) Structural mode: Phronetic Science? The Other in Context - the Post-Industrial Landscape
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