undesign

verb

Etymology

From un- + design.

  1. derived from designō
  2. derived from designer
  3. inherited from designen
  4. prefixed as undesign — “un + design

Definitions

  1. To reverse or fail to implement a design

    To reverse or fail to implement a design; to design something in a way that deliberately rejects the conventions of designing.

    • When not to design and when to undesign? When should we refuse to design something? Are there situations when the use of a particular technology, or even of any technology, is not beneficial?
    • If there is a design in these actions, it is to undesign—to provide supplies for recirculation and recontextualization in which a new meaning may be found.
  2. The act or process of deliberately undesigning.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for undesign. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA