书籍介绍
The question Are We Human? is both urgent and ancient. Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley offer a multi-layered exploration of the intimate relationship between human and design and rethink the philosophy of design in a multi-dimensional exploration from the very first tools and ornaments to the constant buzz of social media. The average day involves the experience of thousands of layers of design that reach to outside space but also reach deep into our bodies and brains. Even the planet itself has been completely encrusted by design as a geological layer. There is no longer an outside to the world of design.
Colomina’s and Wigley’s field notes offer an archaeology of the way design has gone viral and is now bigger than the world. They range across the last few hundred thousand years and the last few seconds to scrutinize the uniquely plastic relation between brain and artifact. A vivid portrait emerges.
Design is what makes the human. It becomes the way humans ask questions and thereby continuously redesign themselves.
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核心看点
- 设计旨在重塑人类，其历史即人类观念演变史。
- 从考古学视角审视设计如何渗透身体与大脑。
- 探讨设计、技术与人类身份之间复杂的共生关系。
适合谁读
- 对设计哲学、建筑理论及后人类主义感兴趣的读者。
- 关注科技如何重塑人类感知与行为的社会学爱好者。
- 希望拓宽设计视野，反思人与物关系的专业人士。
读前提醒
- 本书为随笔集形式，非线性叙事，适合碎片化阅读。
- 内容涵盖广泛，从史前工具到社交媒体，跨度极大。
- 部分章节偏向知识整理，建议结合兴趣选择性精读。
读者共识
- 观点独特且发人深省，能引发对日常设计的深刻反思。
- 排版精美，视觉体验极佳，被誉为高颜值设计理论书。
- 理论密度适中，兼具学术深度与散文般的可读性。
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "Design ... real ambition is to redesign the human. The history of design is therefore a history of evolving conceptions of the human. To talk about design is to talk about the state of our species."
- "The average day involves the experience of thousands of layers of design that reach deep into the ground and outer space but also deep into our bodies and brains. There is no longer an outside of the world of design. Design has become the world."
- "To think about design demands an archaelogical approach. You have to dig. ... digging ... into oursleves."
- "Archaeology ... is a kind of reverse engineering of design. It tries to recover possible pasts while design looks forward to possible futures. Design is a form of projection, to shape something rather that to find it, to invent something and think about the possible outcomes of that invention."
- "Design is the most human thing about us. Design is what makes the human. ... The human radiated design in all directions."
- "The huamn itself is now the overwhelming spectacle. ... Individual movements, purchases, and communications are continuously detected, recorded, and analyzed throughout the day and night, as if constituting a massive collective selfie."
- "Self-monitoring is a huge part of human activity - and is inseparable from design. Looking and grasping and reflecting is after all a key part of design. If design is basically a way of looking forward, this is not simply in the sense of inventing new artifacts. Artifacts become truly transformative"
- "The questions are we human? is from the beginning a hesitation about the relationaship between ourselves and everything around or inside us."
作者简介
Mark Wigley is Professor of Architecture and Dean Emeritus of Columbia University’s GSAPP.
Beatriz Colomina is an architecture theorist, curator and professor at the Princeton University School for Architecture. One of her research focuses is sexual fantasies in association with architecture.
用户评论
在美院偶遇一位scholar 在读同一本书 。
记忆瞬间开启。。。
设计是一种矛盾的姿态，它为了保护人类而改变人类。#inspired by my dear eirunn kvalnes
Nothing new though
犀利
讀過的Beatrice Colomina的第二本書。我設計故我在，設計的能力和思考才是人類和其他物種的區別。人類一方面自大狂妄以為自我能控制和塑造周遭的一切，卻也被自己創造出來的設計徹底改造。
对应the shallows 和norman 的设计心理。但是 没机会读完后一半😅.....
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