Undesign

Quick meaning: Undesign is a verb meaning To reverse or fail to implement a design; to design something in a way that deliberately rejects the conventions of designing.

Meaning

To reverse or fail to implement a design; to design something in a way that deliberately rejects the conventions of designing.

More Meanings

1. The act or process of deliberately undesigning.

Example Sentences

If there is a design in these actions, it is to undesign—to provide supplies for recirculation and recontextualization in which a new meaning may be found.

When not to design and when to undesign? When should we refuse to design something? Are there situations when the use of a particular technology, or even of any technology, is not beneficial?

Although it may seem as if undesign calls for the elimination of discipline or intention, to the contrary, undesign thinking guides designers from any knowledge base or perspective to enact their crafts for the full diversity of product users, art viewers, space occupants, and so forth, rather than for creating and thus manipulating homogenous target groups.

Word Forms

• undesigns
• undesigning
• undesigned

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unintentional, coincidences, misdesign, unmean, underfunction, unsuit.

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