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Aesthetics
Affluent society
Affordance
Algorithm
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Aporia
Art and Technology/Design Architecture
Authentic
Authoring
Aporia
Aporia means "without passage" in Greek. This refers to being at a complete standstill in the process of solving a difficult question or problem that one has encountered. Aristotle defined this logical problem as the confrontation of two rationally formulated yet contrary solutions. If we are to apply this word in design.&sbquo it would point to problems that are almost impossible to solve when we are trying to solve them with design. However&sbquo I'd like to define aporia in design as the stance that would present aggressive and socially far-reaching design proposals as responses or solutions to problems or issues that are thought of as unsolvable. It's no exaggeration to say that design is being asked to bear the burden of all solutions to the problems threatening human survival on a global scale which mankind has already faced at the end of 20th century. Universal design&sbquo sustainable design and ecological design.&sbquo for example. All these problems and issues have actually been aporetic for design. Creative activity through problem solving&sbquo which is at the essence of design&sbquo is designers' professional responsibility to society&sbquo and&sbquo at the same time the attitude designers should take as professionals. Before these problems arose&sbquo and ever since the industrial revolution&sbquo design has been through of not so much as a method to embody idealism&sbquo but as one that employs its utility and efficacy through design promotion policies in order to create commercialistic desires among consumers&sbquo which it still does today. This has locked design into an economic structure; a state that can be considered aporia for design . The introduction of design into politics and religion as a kind of "design administration" was merely avoided before the matter even came up. If we re to thoroughly pursue the idealism of design&sbquo we must determine what the aporia of design is and what will turn into an aporia of design. This has become the problem design faces at the start of the 21st century.