{"id":1888,"date":"2016-09-22T11:07:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T18:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2016-09-22T11:07:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T18:07:44","slug":"designs-do-not-imply-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/designs-do-not-imply-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Designs do not imply truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Often, what we have conjured [in the past] assumes the sheen of inevitability, as if its results were inalienable facts in the world rather than the product of someone\u2019s ideas and actions. In other words, design solidifies, and naturalizes, things that start off as opinions, stories and traditions, supplying form to the fictions by which we live. We rarely stop to consider the faith-based proposition represented by our paper money or the imagined national narratives engendered by borders. Unlike words, the meaning of which can be debated, the objective materiality of designed objects exudes a unique power. Once established, it\u2019s difficult to think outside the systems and structures these objects represent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-Michael Rock, <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/15\/t-magazine\/design\/bathroom-debate-accidental-power-of-design.html\">&#8220;The Accidental Power of Design&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0(<em>NY Times<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Often, what we have conjured [in the past] assumes the sheen of inevitability, as if its results were inalienable facts in the world rather than the product of someone\u2019s ideas and actions. In other words, design solidifies, and naturalizes, things that start off as opinions, stories and traditions, supplying form to the fictions by which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/designs-do-not-imply-truth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Designs do not imply truth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}