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An adapted epistimology of design: The exploration of the everyday.
Van Staden, Schalk
Van Staden, Schalk
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In the context of the philosophy of design, this study highlights modernism’s foundations and impact on design and the designer’s role in the everyday. It argues that design does not attend enough to its modernist foundations. The nature of the everyday was explored from the lens of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitics, attributing to the notion of the common world. Design is seen daily, and the exploration of the everyday influences the epistemology of design and design choices from relationships between humans, non-humans, and social space. With philosophical insights concerning the social lived world from Latour, Sloterdijk, Boltanski, and Lefebvre, this study explores the relationships between humans, non-humans, objects, politics, and spaces produced. Adopting the views of Parsons and Galle as regards the philosophy of design, this study argues that intersections between the epistemology of design from exploring the everyday are impacted by experience, in so doing possibly aligning the epistemology of design closer to a human-experience design approach. The views held by the mentioned theorists furthermore fall within a social ontological framework. Suggesting exploring the epistemology of design might allow designers to reconceptualise design practice and their role. Employing constructivist grounded theory and conceptual analysis moreover supported exploring philosophies of design and the everyday. Towards theory development, Atlas.ti. facilitated an inductive analysis of theorists’ perspectives of the lived world, which revealed overarching typologies of the everyday linked to the epistemology of design conditioned by the philosophy of design, thereby affording the means to ultimately move towards an adapted epistemology of design.
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Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Arts and Design in the Department of Visual Communication FACULTY OF ARTS AND DESIGN
TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY.
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2025-08-01
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Tshwane University of Technology
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Philosophy of design, Epistemology of design, Cosmopolitics
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