Re-appropriation and Representation are critical design practices. Underlining the dynamism of design’s process of inquiry, re-appropriation engages with the present by adopting a mediating role between the past and future. Codes from the past and imaginaries of the future are re-appropriated through operations such as re-drawing, re-making, re-writing, re-imagining, re-imaging and re-situating; things are re-presented, given presence again, a new world disclosed by an architectural project. Drawing On: Re-Appropriation and Representation, building on an associated research-by-design symposium of the same name organised by Paddi Alice Benson, Kieran Cremin, En Fang, Paul Pattinson, and Leo Xian, explores work which moves towards the reinvigoration of design as a dynamic field of play in time. As a prelude to the issue, Gijs Wallis de Vries’ offers an account of a search for Piranesi’s elusive concept of the Pensile City, and Dorian Wiszniewski and Christopher Pierce reflect on the ‘dynamics of recurrence’ in design practice, re-visiting Paul Ricœur‘s description of representation through ‘mimesis’.
Editors
Chris French, Piotr Lesniak, Dorian Wiszniewski
Chris French, Piotr Lesniak, Dorian Wiszniewski