IDS Theoretical Framework Activity

IDS Theoretical Framework Activity

A good design is an exercise in limitation. An object design involves adding many features, drawing more lines, sculpting more surface, loading more options with the belief that the more the elements are added, the more value is provided to the consumer. A design refers to the ability to make transparent services or products’ purpose. There are different types of analytical frameworks, but the two analytical framework methodologies used in this paper are post-modernism and structuralism.

Post-modernism

Post-modernism is a style of critical strategic and rhetorical practices that employ concepts such as repetition, difference, the trace, the simulacrum and hyperreality to weaken other ideas such as identity, historical progress and univocity of meaning.(Plato.stanford.edu, 2015). Post-modernism fits the designing of a storeyed building and furniture. It creates buildings that have distinct features that are not compared with anything that had come before. There are postmodernist paintings with new colours to hang on the walls.

The building structure is characterized by playfully extreme forms and the humour of the meaning it contains. This theoretical framework aims at solving modernism problems, showing purposes with ambiguity, and the building contexts sensitivity.

In post-modern design, nothing is simple, and everything is almost a twist on symbolism and form. Mismatched elements are brought together to build a eye-catching, extravagant look, and the function of an item becomes more fluid. Post-modern design is also characterized by outrageous patterns, sharp contrast and bold colours. Designers have no intention to be part of a fashion that is lasting; they are rather flashy, faddish and temporary. Due to its attractiveness, post-modern catches peoples’ attention rather than blends into the background. Post-modernism is essential in transforming ordinary and everyday objects into objects of visual view.

Structuralism

Structuralism  tendency that seeks to explain and understand social realities in terms of social structures. Structures rare referred to as the forms and patterns of social relations and mixture among a group of constituent social elements or components such as units, levels, positions, location, regions and social formations. (“Structuralism – an overview | ScienceDirect Topics”, 2013). Structuralisms entails two different analytical levels as a procedure of knowing or a metaphysical design of social reality. It also has a habit of approaching subject matters under the two different analytic methods.

Examining a building to realize how its composition demonstrates principles underlying in a structural system will lead to engagement in the structuralist activity. Structuralism takes its objects of examination in the relationship between the purpose of enquiry as divergent to the object itself. The essence of structuralism is that it shows structural relationships. Structuralism aims at expressing social patterns and relations which were held as invariant and permanent and not able to be changed. Buildings and cities are organized on the basis of square, and routes for communication, what is constituent of city structure in a structural analysis. In analytical structuralism, social patterns are apprehended as complex and therefore ideal buildings and cities need to be complex, frequently visualized as a junk of roads, corridors, underground-tracks and footbridges of different stages connected by stairs, escalators and elevators which are stressed by their size, material and colour.

 

 

 

References

Plato.stanford.edu. (2015). Post-modernism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/postmodernism/ [Accessed 4 Mar. 2020].

Structuralism – an overview | ScienceDirect Topics. (2013). Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/structuralism