Precise Experiments: Relations between Mathematics, Philosophy and Design at Ulm School of Design

Leopold, Cornelie

doi:10.1007/s00004-013-0148-6

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“…Based on these early studies, Bense developed in his later publications an exact aesthetics on the foundation of information theory and Birkhoff's definition of the aesthetic measure. These philosophical analyses and concepts had a great impact on the background of Ulm School of Design (Leopold 2013).…”

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Reflections on the Relationships between Mathematics and Arts

Leopold

2023

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Reflections on the Relationships between Mathematics and Arts

Leopold

2023

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“…These routes can be also seen in the very first aim of Ulm School of Design creating a center of active contemporary culture and democratic education of the German society after World War II, developing a democratic society (cf. Leopold 2013).…”

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“…Ulm School of Design (HfG Ulm) existed for only a short time (1953)(1954)(1955)(1956)(1957)(1958)(1959)(1960)(1961)(1962)(1963)(1964)(1965)(1966)(1967)(1968) but had a tremendous influence on the further development of design disciplines (cf. Leopold 2013), first through the introduced theoretical background, and second through the personal influences all over the world, but particularly in Latin America.…”

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On the relationships between philosophy of technology, cybernetics, and aesthetics with their impacts on Latin America

Leopold

2022

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There had been interesting interactions between philosophical reflections, technical developments and the work of artists, poets and designers, starting especially in the 1950s and 1960s with a stimulating cell in Stuttgart and Ulm in Germany spreading mutual international interactions. The paper aims to describe the philosophical background of Max Bense with his research on the intellectual history of mathematics and the upcoming studies on technology and cybernetics. Together with communication theories and semiotics, new aesthetics such as cybernetic aesthetics had been worked out, based on the notions of information and sign. This background stimulated international students, artists and researchers from different creative disciplines for methodical approaches leading to first computer art experiments. The interrelations in these fields with Latin America are in the focus of these studies. Students, artists, and poets from Latin America, especially Brazil, came to Germany for studies and exhibitions in the creative scientific cell around Max Bense. Some of them stayed in Europe, but the exchange developed also in the opposite direction, traveling to and working in Latin America. Some of those fruitful international interrelations will be described and reflected.

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“…The Ulm School was an experimental school of design that existed between 1953 and 1968 and had a significant impact on the discipline of design. The design curriculum of the Ulm school involved an emphasis on scientific methods, functionalism, as well as insights from empirical and theoretical approaches in a variety of disciplines such as information sciences, cybernetics, semiotics, among many others (Leopold, 2013;Maldonado & Bonsiepe, 1989a;Trivedi, 1989;Wachsmann & Oswald, 2015). The Ulm approach was to create a designer who would deal not only with the process of form-giving but also address systems and complexity.…”

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Extending the Ecological Interface Design process—Integrated EID

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Sudakaran

2021

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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This article aims to extend the traditional Ecological Interface Design (EID) process.With the rapid pace of digitalization in technological systems, there is a need for a design process that can handle the systemic design goals and the experiential basis of interaction. Currently, the traditional EID is well-positioned to address these challenges. However, methodologically, it needs to be substantiated to make it accessible for designers, designing for novel arenas, such as Industry 4.0. Further, substantiating the design process will help designers, engineers, and human factors researchers with an accessible pathway that links the design brief to the final interface form. Therefore, this article delves into the "design" basis in the work of the Risø group and other prominent EID researchers and practitioners. In addition, it draws from a variety of themes in the discipline of design that addresses methodology. In particular, key insights are drawn from the design methods movement (1960s-); design, communication, and complexity from the Ulm school of design, 1953-1968; cognitive research conducted on designers and design activities; and finally, interaction design and communication design processes and models. All of these insights have been used syncretically to create the new integrated EID (iEID) process. This new design process consists of nine stages divided into three phases of divergence, transformation, and convergence, converting the initial design brief to the final interface. The steps of iEID are demonstrated using the example of interface design for a "digital twin" in the manufacturing sector.

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Precise Experiments: Relations between Mathematics, Philosophy and Design at Ulm School of Design

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

Reflections on the Relationships between Mathematics and Arts

Reflections on the Relationships between Mathematics and Arts

On the relationships between philosophy of technology, cybernetics, and aesthetics with their impacts on Latin America

Extending the Ecological Interface Design process—Integrated EID

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