Comments on: words I have a great deal of disdain for http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/04/words-i-have-a-great-deal-of-distain-for/ what happens when ideas slide past each other Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:06:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ben http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/04/words-i-have-a-great-deal-of-distain-for/comment-page-1/#comment-1062 ben Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:21:06 +0000 http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/?p=124#comment-1062 http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/09/architecture-as-instrument-talk/ It turns out that the architectonic section actually is a real thing. It is a drawing instrument used for constructing proportions. The link above is to a talk about it that I attended at the museum of the history of science. http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/09/architecture-as-instrument-talk/

It turns out that the architectonic section actually is a real thing. It is a drawing instrument used for constructing proportions.

The link above is to a talk about it that I attended at the museum of the history of science.

]]> By: ben http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/04/words-i-have-a-great-deal-of-distain-for/comment-page-1/#comment-721 ben Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:19:23 +0000 http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/?p=124#comment-721 oh dear, the head of MIT's architecture department says... <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/95698107@N00/3588154558/" title="MATERIALITY FAIL by notionparallax, on Flickr" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2433/3588154558_626169620a_m.jpg" width="240" height="162" alt="MATERIALITY FAIL" /></a> oh dear, the head of MIT’s architecture department says…
MATERIALITY FAIL

]]> By: barnaby http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/04/words-i-have-a-great-deal-of-distain-for/comment-page-1/#comment-669 barnaby Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:54:27 +0000 http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/?p=124#comment-669 my pet hate is when people talk about 'the idea of...' and then talk about everything but the design they are presenting. I was chatting with some fancy oxford trained teacher the other day and he hassled my use of the word critique when i used it as a passive verb rather than a noun. I don't really understand what he means! I agree with the spirit of the post in the sense that we dont spend anywhere enough energy making strong links with normal english and the public. As a discipline we are very stupid for creating all sorts of nomenclature and jargon in an effort to create a wall of mystery around what we do. When instead we should be making clear rational explanations about the skills we offer. We can't have it both ways. We are either priest artists or creative rationalists, not both at the same time. While saying that, the manipulation of space is quite complex and there will be occasions when either new words or combinations of words are necessary to explain something not normally articulated in the language... but thats another story. Maybe we need to start a movement of 'using simple language in design'? my pet hate is when people talk about ‘the idea of…’ and then talk about everything but the design they are presenting.

I was chatting with some fancy oxford trained teacher the other day and he hassled my use of the word critique when i used it as a passive verb rather than a noun. I don’t really understand what he means!

I agree with the spirit of the post in the sense that we dont spend anywhere enough energy making strong links with normal english and the public. As a discipline we are very stupid for creating all sorts of nomenclature and jargon in an effort to create a wall of mystery around what we do. When instead we should be making clear rational explanations about the skills we offer. We can’t have it both ways. We are either priest artists or creative rationalists, not both at the same time.

While saying that, the manipulation of space is quite complex and there will be occasions when either new words or combinations of words are necessary to explain something not normally articulated in the language… but thats another story.

Maybe we need to start a movement of ‘using simple language in design’?

]]> By: ben http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/04/words-i-have-a-great-deal-of-distain-for/comment-page-1/#comment-668 ben Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:47:22 +0000 http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/?p=124#comment-668 I found a great business version of this on the Harvard Business blogs. http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/silverman/2009/02/10-business-words-to-ban.html I found a great business version of this on the Harvard Business blogs.
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/silverman/2009/02/10-business-words-to-ban.html

]]> By: Material World http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/04/words-i-have-a-great-deal-of-distain-for/comment-page-1/#comment-653 Material World Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:36:54 +0000 http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/?p=124#comment-653 "For the arts make their material (some simply 'make' it, others make it serviceable), and we use everything as if it was there for our sake. (We also are in a sense an end. 'That for the sake of which' has two senses: the distinction is made in our work On Philosophy.) The arts, therefore, which govern the matter and have knowledge are two, namely the art which uses the product and the art which directs the production of it. That is why the using art also is in a sense directive; but it differs in that it knows the form, whereas the art which is directive as being concerned with production knows the matter. For the helmsman knows and prescribes what sort of form a helm should have, the other from what wood it should be made and by means of what operations. In the products of art, however, we make the material with a view to the function, whereas in the products of nature the matter is there all along." Physics by Aristotle Book 2, Part 2 classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/physics.mb.txt The word in the original text about the art related to the product, is "architectonic". No archaeological evidence about Aristotle's smoking habits or his pop culture references. “For the arts make their material (some simply ‘make’ it, others make it serviceable), and we use everything as if it was there for our sake. (We also are in a sense an end. ‘That for the sake of which’ has two senses: the distinction is made in our work On Philosophy.) The arts, therefore, which govern the matter and have knowledge are two, namely the art which uses the product and the art which directs the production of it. That is why the using art also is in a sense directive; but it differs in that it knows the form, whereas the art which is directive as being concerned with production knows the matter. For the helmsman knows and prescribes what sort of form a helm should have, the other from what wood it should be made and by means of what operations. In the products of art, however, we make the material with a view to the function, whereas in the products of nature the matter is there all along.”

Physics

by Aristotle

Book 2, Part 2

classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/physics.mb.txt

The word in the original text about the art related to the product, is “architectonic”.

No archaeological evidence about Aristotle’s smoking habits or his pop culture references.

]]> By: Sophie Chisholm http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/04/words-i-have-a-great-deal-of-distain-for/comment-page-1/#comment-652 Sophie Chisholm Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:04:10 +0000 http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/?p=124#comment-652 I concurr. Juxtaposition comes a close third. Followed by (not so subject specific but still extremely overused) essentially..... I concurr.

Juxtaposition comes a close third. Followed by (not so subject specific but still extremely overused) essentially…..

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