Emma Irwin

About

Emma is a designer/writer interested in languaging design practices. Designers and creative practitioners don’t have a rigid system of classification and documentation like the sciences do. Languaging Design uses the act of noticing patterns and motifs in the methods and processes of design practices. From multiplicities to hierarchies, errors, entanglements, discourse and diagrams, languaging becomes more than just words, and articulates an embodied practice.

Design practices are generative and self-perpetuating. Emma’s practice adapts this methodology into making-writing, through the act and process of collaging words.

By using amalgamations of source materials and methods (essay writing, interview, found words), Emma’s practice is about building a texture of writing with, for, and through design. The project aims higher  than writing about design in the traditional, two-dimensional, pen to paper sense. By using the term languaging design, she hopes to unlock new discourses, and stress the importance of perpetual presence, and the sense of doing, and doing-now for design methods and processes.

In her work, Emma talks about a friction of parallelity where two objects, ideas or entities rub against each other to generate new thoughts and territories. Perhaps by reading her work, you’ll experience this sensation for your own design practice…