Month: April 2014

Title thesis:

Trans-thesis van de gelijknamige thesis


Subject:

This thesis may give the impression that its focus lies on language. In fact there is no specific focus. It deals with matters outside the mechanisms of what this thesis seems to be about. A state of deposition is more applicable here. One might think “so that must be the topic, right?” Indeed, the topic of this thesis deals with a state of deposition that derives from the incompleteness theorem of Kurt Gödel, which states: “Something cannot be proven within the system of its own laws, it can only be proven outside its own system”. So therefore, besides the use of language as a medium in itself, this thesis can also being seen as a manual or an instrument designed for its interactive quality.

Investigative research can be based on a lack of skills, an inability or sheer incompetence. In other words, an investigation can spring forth from an ignorant approach. It does not necessarily have to stand for boundless naivety, yet it may well be the outcome of a conscious design choice. As a designer you have the ability to deliberately choose for such a specific strategy. Such a strategy supplies research with outcomes and insights that ordinarily will be left unnoticed.

What fascinates me are the abilities and inabilities of language. Language is a communication system that forms a representation of our proficiency (epistemological knowledge). Regarded in this sense, language then is the communicative expression of that what we know about what we know.

In the pragmatic use of language a consensus is easily met in regard to that epistemology (epistemological convention). Language is the medium of that convention.

However, this awareness or understanding is not a static given, but a dynamic, ever changing knowledge which everyone, in the course of the use of language itself can have their influence on. As designer I consider it my task to make people aware of this potential influence in their use of language. Thereby the designer casts its effect on knowledge itself. As long as we accept that we live in a self-created, fictional world of which many of the systems and regulations have gained their justification and legitimacy by means of (often unconsciously) applied conventions. With the help of imagination the consensual mechanism that determines ‘that what we know we know’, can be stretched and a conception can be made of a different logic or amendments can be accredited with an existing logic.

Title thesis:

Trans-thesis van de gelijknamige thesis


Subject:

This thesis may give the impression that its focus lies on language. In fact there is no specific focus. It deals with matters outside the mechanisms of what this thesis seems to be about. A state of deposition is more applicable here. One might think “so that must be the topic, right?” Indeed, the topic of this thesis deals with a state of deposition that derives from the incompleteness theorem of Kurt Gödel, which states: “Something cannot be proven within the system of its own laws, it can only be proven outside its own system”. So therefore, besides the use of language as a medium in itself, this thesis can also being seen as a manual or an instrument designed for its interactive quality.

Investigative research can be based on a lack of skills, an inability or sheer incompetence. In other words, an investigation can spring forth from an ignorant approach. It does not necessarily have to stand for boundless naivety, yet it may well be the outcome of a conscious design choice. As a designer you have the ability to deliberately choose for such a specific strategy. Such a strategy supplies research with outcomes and insights that ordinarily will be left unnoticed.

What fascinates me are the abilities and inabilities of language. Language is a communication system that forms a representation of our proficiency (epistemological knowledge). Regarded in this sense, language then is the communicative expression of that what we know about what we know.

In the pragmatic use of language a consensus is easily met in regard to that epistemology (epistemological convention). Language is the medium of that convention.

However, this awareness or understanding is not a static given, but a dynamic, ever changing knowledge which everyone, in the course of the use of language itself can have their influence on. As designer I consider it my task to make people aware of this potential influence in their use of language. Thereby the designer casts its effect on knowledge itself. As long as we accept that we live in a self-created, fictional world of which many of the systems and regulations have gained their justification and legitimacy by means of (often unconsciously) applied conventions. With the help of imagination the consensual mechanism that determines ‘that what we know we know’, can be stretched and a conception can be made of a different logic or amendments can be accredited with an existing logic.