Post modern design theory

Postmodern has lost its meaning in that people were constantly changing and that there isn't any set rules to be exactly the same, I basically understood that people are trying to come up with what they want and go against being the same as everyone as Richard has mentioned with the Bauhaus. People would take the simple ideas from the postmodern and deconstruct everything about it to make new ideas where there would be multiple designs of an item or product, such as a chair. This allowed multiple people to create their own version or interpretation of how it should look like and function.

Another example would be the underground train system map, was changed and made easier to understand because someone interpreted simple enough for people to understand.

We are now in a world where people are connecting together all around the world, exchanging ideas with each other, without changing each others culture. We all have different ideas and with a variety of interpretations of the basics we come up with different ideas to suit everyone's needs.

modernist design theory

Modernist design theory follows a series of same rules, producing a utopia defined as the perfect world, which is to provide a clean balance of everything, creating a better future. Functionality is also a main necessary, aiding everyone (If everyone were a passive audience).

The modernist theory also considers bringing everyone together to have a universal culture.

The main focus of modernism lies on the following rules:

-needs to be simple

-needs to be functional to everyone

-being the same 

It seems like a good idea but it will make everything boring, people being people like uniqueness, so it wouldn't work in a society that had different mindset. For example a whole land full of the same apartment buildings with boring symmetry, that caused many to just leave.

"Move away from realism and look at the realistic world" where everyone does not live in the same culture. and that there is not an idealistic world where everyone is equal.     

study task 2

Postmodernism has many factors to it such as, it's against grand narrative of looking at the past and picking styles from the past to use in the modern era. It's been explained as a blank parody with no politics.

Jameson talks about what Pastiche is. "Pastiche is like parody" he then further explains it with"speech in a dead language" which is a very humorous yet makes sense to the audience as to how to think about the word.  furthermore, he states "Return of references" which clarifies pastiche being defined as using references from things that don't matter anymore, Referencing for no reason.

Hutcheon talks about what Parody is. "Critical or iconic re-reading of the plot" and that parody is "representation rather than recycling" of the plot/story.  from this, we can identify that parody is defined as a way to make fun of something by referencing it.

Both Pastiche and Parody can be used to make fun out of postmodernism, as postmodernism was explained to be a "Blank parody" suggesting that both Jameson and Hutcheon definitions help make an understanding of Postmodernism being a "speech in a dead language" and an "iconic re-reading of a plot".