Description
Paper title:Stop and Think—How to? Learning from a Reptonian experiment
(included under the conference track Design History, Theory and Methods)
Abstract:
The presentation is interested in an encounter between thought and that which forces it into action. By focusing on Repton’s Red Books and their persuasive quality, my aim is to explore and learn from the mechanics behind a presentation of a particular design argument that placed thinking in the event and thought in action. What I want to propose is that Repton employed his argument aesthetically—through affect, realising that action is driven as much by the mind as by the body, with not all of thought on the side of reason. Here, I argue, lies Repton’s relevance for our contemporary moment of wide deployment of public rhetoric that prioritises, and instrumentalises, feeling over reason to increasingly political ends.
| Period | 13 Sept 2021 → 15 Sept 2021 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Degree of Recognition | International |