Manifestos./
What is a Manifesto?
A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature. Manifestos relating to religious belief are generally referred to as creeds. Manifestos may also be life stance-related.
Postspectacular Manifesto: Rule Making and Rule Breaking./
The Brief./ ‘This Project introduces you to critical design processes and asks you to ask questions about digital culture in general and the roles of producer, user and audience within it in particular. You will explore these questions through the development of a manifesto. You will be given roles (designer, producer, audience, participant, collaborator, user) and will be asked, in groups to develop a manifesto based on your research findings and your response to the contemporary design context. Your manifesto should be produced creatively and reflect its contents. The brief emphasises research as a creative and critical process. The process of researching is a creative process in itself and it can inspire your creative ideas, processes and outputs towards critically aware and informed conclusions.’
Literacy.
Process.
Outputs.
Learn by doing Take away a sound understanding of new concepts learned at the end of each activity. Transform knowledge into intuition. Share your learnings. Experiment to avoid/overcome procrastination. Go further, Carpe noctem.
Use the right tool for the right job - make those tools! Recognize too that each tool has limitations. Benefit from these boundaries set.
Be self-critical to promote quality & positiveness Ask the important, uneasy questions if you’re in doubt. Don’t be afraid to change your opinion if new learnings require so. Your output & process is more important than your brand, let these things BE your brand.
Become literate in systems thinking Create services, and products as artefacts of services. Always consider the surrounding context and environment of your output. Understand, utilize & harness economics of scale, network effects. Often the population (of ideas, opportunities & solutions, your network) is more important than the individual. Again, adopt creation processes which support this approach.
Encourage creative flow in your process Utilize iterative, agile practices. Constant refinement & refactoring. Be part of networks However peers are not main source of inspiration. Apply recursion to your process, but don’t (give in to) repeat yourself: creatively & practically. Allow for recombination of ideas by adopting modular development This applies personally & globally. Acknowledge you’re standing on the shoulders of giants. Become your own giant. Embrace Open Source thinking and practice. Be open to new influences Encourage serendipity in your process. Evaluate new processes, techniques & technologies, adopt them immediately where beneficial.
Breaking it down.
If we analyse the Postspectacular manifesto we can see that it is firstly split into three main headings and then into more sub headings with those. This appears to be an organised method of present the manifesto not only as a visual concept but also so the text is easier to read and digest in smaller chunks. It is almost like factual information which needs to be clear and concise. A manifesto is like a set of rules that a designer or business must follow to create the best outcomes possible. I will need to consider the layout and how to organise the information within our own manifesto.
Benefit from and accept that you’re working towards moving targets (caused by your own doing and that of others) Replace fixed, crystallized, pre-defined specifications with a shared vision as starting point. Be prepared and allow the vision to change. Define inputs as ranges, not constants, thus allowing your creation to be agile. Accept failure as part of your process. However, risk of major failure is drastically reduced in a continuous mode for issues can be recognized and addressed earlier on. Use clear language without hype & buzzwords Work iteratively and think modular. Don’t dilute the essence of a thing by giving in to feature creep. Attempt constant feedback loops.
Attempt to move away from isolated projects towards a continuous flow of activity Small steps, more often.
Participant Role.
Definition Someone who takes part in an activity. A participant role is a relation that persons have to each other with regards to their involvement in a speech event. Types./ Adresse An addressee is any of the immediate intended recipients of the speaker’s communication, as grammaticalized in second person morphemes. Audience An audience is one or more persons who are part of the conversational group but who are not presently being addressed. Bystander A bystander is a person in a participant role of audience or unratified participant. Ratified Participant A ratified participant is one who, in a speech event, has the role of * speaker * addressee, or * intended audience. Source as a participant role Source is the participant role of the referent from whom a message ultimately comes, especially in the case in which the referent is distinct from the speaker. Unratified participant An unratified participant is a person present at, but not a recognized participant of, a conversation or other speech event. Tom Bryant