Design, Gestaltung, Formatività. Philosophies of Making

After the release of the anthology edited by Patricia Ribault, including contributions by a wide and impressive range of Cluster members, we're happy to announce that the publication is now available open access!

https://birkhauser.com/de/books/9783035622447

What do the gestures of a neurosurgeon, a painter, an engineer, a glassblower, and a biologist have in common? Through the concepts of »Design, Gestaltung and Formatività«, this book sheds a new light on the processes of formation and transformation of the material world we live in. In the first part—»Giving Form«—philosophers, historians, psychologists and cultural studies scholars question our modes of giving form (some translated into English for the first time), while in the second—»Form Given«—artists, designers, engineers and scientists unfold their creative processes.

These »philosophies of making« invite us to reflect on what we do, what we can do, and how to do it, but they also spur us into action. Making as a mode of doing implies a mode of thinking, and if we don’t want to lose the pilot’s handbook for »Spaceship Earth«, then we are going to need, more than ever, all the rationality and ingenuity we are capable of to establish a new relationship to matter and form.

With contributions by:

Samuel Bianchini, Cecile Bidan, Horst Bredekamp, Tiago Da Costa e Silva, Julía Chaumel, Mason Dean, Émile De Visscher, Peter Fratzl, Thomas Golsenne, Lorenzo Guiducci, Leonie Häsler, Thomas Huot-Marchand, Pierre-Damien Huyghe, Ianis Lallemand, Gaëlle Le Page, Selma Lepart, Claudia Mareis, Martin Müller, Luigi Pareyson, Jörg Petruschat, Dominique Peysson, Emanuele Quinz, Khashayar Razghandi, Patricia Ribault, Wolfgang Schäffner, Barbara Schmidt, Ronald Seidel, Didier Semin, Judith Seng, Gilles. A. Tiberghien, Charlett Wenig.