language
Babelification
Language, as a social instrument, is more than its content. It’s also a signifier defining the speaker. Therefore language, whether expressed as slang, dialects, patois, or accents, is a marker of cultural identity. The language you use signals to other people: am I like you? Do we come from the same place? Do we share perspectives?... See more
Language, as a social instrument, is more than its content. It’s also a signifier defining the speaker. Therefore language, whether expressed as slang, dialects, patois, or accents, is a marker of cultural identity. The language you use signals to other people: am I like you? Do we come from the same place? Do we share perspectives?... See more
From Donald Knuth “The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.”
The people who get to impose their metaphors on the culture get to define what we consider to be true.
~Lakoff & Johnson
Sometimes you want to say things, and you’re missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That’s how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn’t exist.
Words shape our ideas, how we see the world, and how we relate to one another. As design teacher and researcher Anne Galloway says:
Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements;... See more
“Language doesn’t just make things—it assembles, cobbles together, entire worlds and all the relations within.”
Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements;... See more
Nicole Fenton • Words as Material
a term that we often use at
spatial Labs is the term sustainable
Consciousness right denoting to not only
the physical act of being sustainable
but thinking about sustainability as a
way of life right incorporating it into
your daily habits the way you think the
way you speak to others the frequency of
words you use right to as Yoda would say
to do or do... See more
spatial Labs is the term sustainable
Consciousness right denoting to not only
the physical act of being sustainable
but thinking about sustainability as a
way of life right incorporating it into
your daily habits the way you think the
way you speak to others the frequency of
words you use right to as Yoda would say
to do or do... See more
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Iddris Sandu Keynote Speech (CTW '23)