The Designer’s Standpoint: Feminist Epistemologies and Agnotology as a Road Map for Supporting Writing Practice in Design

Laborde, Paul (2024) The Designer’s Standpoint: Feminist Epistemologies and Agnotology as a Road Map for Supporting Writing Practice in Design. In: P/References of Design. Cumulus conference proceedings series, 1 . Cumulus Association, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Budapest, pp. 453-465. ISBN 978-952-7549-02-5

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Abstract

This paper has a twofold objective: 1) to provide leads to explore design's epistemic potential, through standpoint epistemologies and agnotology. The former because they defend the possibility of a knowledge that is relative to a point of view, thus highlighting a pragmatic tone that fits very well with design's ambition. The latter because the acknowledgment of ignorance supports the consideration of ethical stakes thus defining more accurately the designer's position; 2) to outline a writing practice that would embody this epistemic potential and solidify design as its own science. I believe that design provides a great opportunity to produce an irreducible knowledge, grounded in a specific social situation, embracing different social dynamics that structure it. I advocate the idea that such knowledge would come to existence if designers were to integrate a "writing phase" within the design process.

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