Design is ontological in that all design-led objects, tools, and even services bring about particular ways of being, knowing, and doing. ...can design be extricated from its embeddedness in modernist unsustainable and defuturing practices and redirected toward other ontological commitments, practices, narratives, and performances? Moreover, could design become part of the tool kit for transitions toward the pluriverse? Arturo Escobar - Designs for the Pluriverse デザイン手動で作られたオブジェクトや道具、そしてサービスですら特定の存在方 法、知識、行為をもたらすという点において、デザインは存在論的である …デザインは近代主義者がもらたしら持続不可能でデフューチャリングな実践に埋 め込まれた状態から切り離され、他の存在論的なコミットメント、実践、物語、パ フォーマンスへと方向転換できるかという問いである。さらに、デザインは多元世 界へとトランジションするための道具の一部となるのか。
ワークショップ Ontology is rooted in Greek philosophy that examined what was real vs what was not real Modern information science applies philosophical ontology to describe related things in topic in order to optimize • Contextualization • Description/Characterization • Organization • Findability • Translation Ontology is a deliberate method of characterization
remarkably quick to make meaning of language we encounter and to imagine the mind behind that language. Artificial agents have at best limited capacity for communicative intent Categories are arbitrary, sense-making is a social process