Design and Digital Humanities

This lecture explores the roots of design since the Renaissance, its evolution as a 'revolution' within industrial and proto-capitalist revolutions, and the distinction between 'design' and 'design of'. It delves into the various design approaches, emphasizing a more open Anglo-Saxon perspective. The lecture also covers the importance of values in free culture, the design interface of a DH project, and the aesthetics of data. It discusses the challenges of digital environments in updating knowledge production and transmission methods, the role of designers in humanities projects, and the impact of digital technologies on research practices. The lecture concludes by examining the layers of design as an instrument of technique, formal rhetoric, and deconstruction of digital devices.