Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. It is the … Continue reading →

[Karl Marx, William James, John Dewey, Ervin Goffman, Kenneth Burke]To act is to take action. Action means motion or change that ground in the nature of things. (Aristotle) For Burke, action is the human body in conscious or purposive motion. … Continue reading →

Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. Persuasion can be attained by two mediums, text and speech, so rhetoric is by definition the art of speaking and writing effectively. Rhetoric has three types based on Aristotle’s ‘Rhetoric’; juridical, epideictic, and deliberative. … Continue reading →

(Aristotle – Poetics, Brenda Laurel – Computers as Theatre, Shakespeare -Hamlet) Human beings like to imitate. Imitation begins with the imitation of nature. Human beings also like to learn; to understand the outside world. These are the two motivations of … Continue reading →

christopher alexander in the timeless way of buildings tries to define patterns for the design auidence, especially for architecture. thinking about design, it is really hard to talk about a language. first of all design needs to define subject matter … Continue reading →

Aristotle, Plato, Santayana Aristotle gives the definition of love as an excess of feeling, towards one person in one of the passages of Ethics. He begins his argument by categorizing love as feeling that is as much towards lifeless objects, … Continue reading →

it is a good way to check the websites of some leading design companies to keep in touch with the current tendencies. IDEO is one of those companies. here is a link about an exploratory project on cell phones. it … Continue reading →

by the term action i mean activities that are consequential problematic, and undertaken for what is felt to be their own sake. the degree of action- its seriousness or realness-depends on how fully these properties are accentuated and is subject … Continue reading →

Aristophanes, with Lysistrata, a heroine from Hellenic times, raises the issue of peace in a humorous way with using the themes of sex and war. The relationship between sex and war is such a nice shot. There is a strong … Continue reading →

I have heard about Ionesco and his ‘absurd’ theatre before, but it was the first time I saw an Ionesco play. When I first entered the studio, I saw the actor standing there looking through a hanged window frame. It … Continue reading →

Reading a play, make an analysis of that play, and then watch that play in flesh is challenging. It reminds me the feeling I have when I watch movies adapted from a novel I read. It is tricky because you … Continue reading →

I like to watch musicals. They have an abundant energy of musical and theatrical qualities. Last year I saw my first Broadway musical in New York. It was a well-known Korean theatre company. The first insight in my first experience … Continue reading →