Design as Event — Discipline-Level Definition (DL-D)

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Design as Event — Discipline-Level Definition (DL-D)

Canonical archive entry. Primary publication and citation anchor: Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18787198.

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Primary DOI
Resource type
Other (Zenodo)
Language
English (canonical) + Greek (parallel)
Function
Discipline-level definition object for the Design as Event corpus (ontology + aesthetics of time; new media as simulation of form).

Discipline-Level Definition

  • DEFINITION: Design as Event establishes design as an event rather than a process unfolding within a pre-given temporal container. Design is the constitutive act through which time becomes ontologically and aesthetically intelligible for form.
  • PRIMARY UNIT: neither the artefact nor the workflow, but the evental configuration that institutes a legible present—a condition of intelligibility in which coherence, relevance, and unity become perceptible.
  • FORM: not a terminal outcome and not an image to be selected; form stabilizes contingently as a limit through morphogenetic regulation.
  • TIME: not measure or duration, but a constitutive condition organizing continuities, ruptures, repetitions, delays, and thresholds.
  • VIRTUAL: not hypothetical; the virtual is an operative dimension of the real event, a structured reserve of potentials that acts without being exhausted by a single actualization.
  • NEW MEDIA / SIMULATION: simulation does not represent form; it participates in the constitution of the temporal conditions under which form becomes necessary. The reduction of design to optimization is a category error: without evental grounding, simulation loses ontological and institutional validity.

What It Is Not

  • NOT a process model, workflow doctrine, or stage-based schema.
  • NOT a method, framework, toolkit, or recipe.
  • NOT a representational doctrine (image ≠ form).
  • NOT an optimization paradigm (procedure ≠ ontological ground).
  • NOT UX as temporal management (duration metrics ≠ temporal constitution).

Unit of Rigor (Institutional Use)

  • Temporal architecture (operators, rhythms, thresholds).
  • Stabilization (whether and how form holds).
  • Causal coherence (necessity rather than selection).
  • Historical durability (durable intelligibility over time).
Reaction–diffusion simulation (Gray–Scott model): morphogenetic pattern formation.
Hero image: Reaction-Diffusion.gif — simulation of reacting/diffusing chemicals (Gray–Scott model), on a 3D torus. Author: Raphaelaugusto. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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