Making of Narratives
Design Research, Master of Design ThesisMaking of Narratives
Context is integral to how we understand things. How we set boundaries, where we place things and meanings, how we see them through their placement—all of these enable us to see ourselves, others, and things in different ways.
Making of Narratives, a practice-led design framework explores the “permeable boundaries” between persons and things and how the brain, the body, and things all equally contribute to the “human cognitive becoming.” As narratives are tangibly visualized in the making process, the meaning of things become malleable beyond their functional uses and serve as projections of one’s personhood, becoming signifiers of our perceptions.
The gestural engagement of the hand and the thing in the “act of simple making” plays a crucial role in creating moments for discovery, impartation, and transference of embodied sensory-perceptual knowledge. By offering contexts and conditions, Making of Narratives affords space to shift and reframe perspectives through making alternative meaning and sense of the relationship between persons and things.
