A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
The Struggle of Objects and Meaning: Design, Representation and Material Culture in the Everyday Objects of Orhan Pamuk’s ‘Museum of Innocence’
Having been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for literature, Orhan Pamuk’s next novel was entitled The Museum of Innocence. The novel, which bears the same name as an actual museum, is one of a kind, because before writing the novel he started to collect the items that would be described in the story, then, or simultaneously, he wrote the novel and opened a museum that consists of the objects depicted in the novel (Pamuk, 2008). He defines the novel as ‘an annotated catalogue of the museum, relating in detail the stories of each and every object’ (Pamuk, 2009: 702). This article sets out to explore, first on a semiotic level, the struggle between the objects and their meaning; secondly the dilemma between Lyotard’s figural and discursive fields within the novel/museum; and finally, with regard to its implications for design, the significance of objects will be discussed in relation to everyday life and material culture studies, with an emphasis on memory and identity.
The Struggle of Objects and Meaning: Design, Representation and Material Culture in the Everyday Objects of Orhan Pamuk’s ‘Museum of Innocence’
Having been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for literature, Orhan Pamuk’s next novel was entitled The Museum of Innocence. The novel, which bears the same name as an actual museum, is one of a kind, because before writing the novel he started to collect the items that would be described in the story, then, or simultaneously, he wrote the novel and opened a museum that consists of the objects depicted in the novel (Pamuk, 2008). He defines the novel as ‘an annotated catalogue of the museum, relating in detail the stories of each and every object’ (Pamuk, 2009: 702). This article sets out to explore, first on a semiotic level, the struggle between the objects and their meaning; secondly the dilemma between Lyotard’s figural and discursive fields within the novel/museum; and finally, with regard to its implications for design, the significance of objects will be discussed in relation to everyday life and material culture studies, with an emphasis on memory and identity.
The Struggle of Objects and Meaning: Design, Representation and Material Culture in the Everyday Objects of Orhan Pamuk’s ‘Museum of Innocence’
Timur Ogut, Sebnem (author)
The Design Journal ; 20 ; 45-66
2017-01-02
22 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
objects , design , material culture , everyday life , representation , Istanbul , meaning , memory , identity
Orhan Pamuk's ‘Museum of Innocence’: on architecture, narrative and the art of collecting
| Online Contents | 2009
HIGHLIGHT - ORHAN PAMUK, MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE
Online Contents | 2009
| Online Contents | 2013
| British Library Online Contents | 2013
Orhan Pamuks Museum der Unschuld, Istanbul/TR
Online Contents | 2012