FASHION-able

Here it is necessary to continuously relate to different traditions of ways of think-
ing. Each thesis must find its own way to manifest these relationships so that in the
long run a kind of best practice will be revealed. Artistic research is not the only
research full of such methodological difficulties. Action research in the social sci-
ences is another example as it does not relate to one specific existing reality but
acknowledges the importance of the situated perspective of knowledge produc-
tion.

This thesis does not present any overall linear or sequential “tree-like” theory where
every argument follows one “root” up to a magnificent crown of knowledge. The
discussion has no strict beginning and end, question and answer, and it does not
follow a classic progressive or deductive format, validated by consistent data that
unequivocally can be turned into a new form of practice. Basically, it relates, cross-
examines, articulates and contextualizes a series of experiences and to make use of
the understanding gained the results must be interpreted and re-situated. This the-
sis can be regarded as a refinement of the kind of knowledge production and
knowledge distribution that normally guides design practice.

The main quality of these kinds of practice-based knowledge processes is that they
do not reduce the complexity to reach clear-cut conclusions. All aspects, aesthetic
as well as commercial, are considered as supporting the process of trial-and-error

the attractor point of hacktivism, creates
“gravity”, pulling lines together, but has no
absoulte centre, essence or focal point

a number of approaches or “lines”, slightly

displaced, collected into chapters and pulled

together into a whole: the prism/thesis

the reader’s journey through the thesis does

not have to be linear, but can be in orbit

around the attractor or cut across the lines

= the thesis becomes a prism - as a collection of approaches

one of many approaches

the thesis can be “rotated” and read from
may angles, where each approach shows new
perspectives and possibilities

a spectrum of diagonal

possibilities

many possible approaches

The prism model