Postproduction, reproduction
Colleen Morgan’s blog Middle Savagery introduced me to Michel de Certeau’s thoughts as expressed in The Practice of Everyday Life by way of a quotation from Nicolas Bourriaud’s Postproduction . These are defined by Bourriaud as “Structualist” which Wikipedia defines as, “a term [that] refers to various theories across the humanities and social sciences, many of which share the assumption that structural relationships between concepts vary between different cultures/languages and that these relationships can be usefully exposed and explored.”
The concept pair in the quotation — producer/consumer of cultural content — got my attention because of how Morgan juxtaposed the quotation with an image from a collection of cut vinyl record silhouettes, triggering a connection to William McDonough’s Cradle to Cradle which exposes a slightly different produce/consumer pair.
McDonough exposes how the current (material) product life cycle is, simply put, hazardous, and argues for a shift from regulating limits to how hazardous the production and use life cycle is to a new view of design that doesn’t build around some of the principles and assumptions of the current product life cycle. From my (probably limited) understanding of McDonough’s ideas, i suspect material objects will need to be designed for even more of a remix culture than is seen in a Makers Faire.
While McDonough seems to focus on regulations around limiting harm (how much can a product outgas, how much damage will it do in a landfill), the IP regulations and restrictions around material objects seem like they would come into play, too.
Just a few facets of thoughts brought together….
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