Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.63.1.8
Error Harvest: A Method for System Design in Non- Ideal Conditions
Marko-Luka Zubčić
orcid.org/0000-0002-7637-2455
; Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, Croatia
Ida Križaj Leko
orcid.org/0009-0000-5378-314X
; University of Rijeka, Urban Studies, Croatia
Abstract
In this paper, we present "error harvest", a new method for educating and training
designers of complex sociotechnical and spatial systems (for example, urban units) under
non-ideal conditions. Error harvest confronts the designer with the explication of inherent
flaws and predictable (although perhaps rare or unlikely) shocks in the found system, and
represents an exercise in reinterpreting (by means of design solutions) these flaws and shocks
as productive mechanisms of the system (with productivity defined within the exercise as the
desired goals that the mechanisms should achieve). In the article, we present and elaborate the
method within and in relation to the fields of spatial practices, system design, broken world
design, and non-ideal institutional epistemology. In conclusion, we present two different examples
of the use of the method.
Keywords
system design; non-ideal theory; broken world; education; institutional epistemology
Hrčak ID:
336364
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Publication date:
9.10.2025.
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