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The design methods meshwork: Activating the Design Methods Group Newsletter through digital history
Theodora Vardouli1, Maxime Leblanc1, Eliza Pertigkiozoglou1
1Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
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This article elaborates a computationally enabled approach to the study of design methods in 1960s North America. This entails the construction, visualization, and analysis of a digital database built from entries of the Design Methods Group Newsletter, a periodical published monthly between 1966-71. The article proposes a workflow that combines methods such as topic modeling and network visualization to activate the Newsletter as a source of anecdotal and informal knowledge, and to enable histories of connectivity and transaction that may elude archival investigations on singular actors or institutions. In doing so, the article contributes arguments and techniques for the study of design methods as a complex social, technical, and intellectual meshwork. The meshwork brings discursive themes, techniques, actors, and institutions at the same level of investigation and allows for layered cartographies of the field that advanced the systematic study of design and ushered in the development of early computer applications.
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