⚘ The Enchantment of "De-Sign": Navigation Toward Meaning-Making ☀ Farouk Y. Seif
Creators: name: Seif, Farouk Y.
name: Neubern, Maurício
name: Passarini, William
Publisher: name: Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: De-sign
subject: Design
subject: Imagination
subject: Integrity
subject: John Deely
subject: Humanities
subject: FOS: Humanities
subject: Meaning
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Problem-solving
subject: Science
subject: Semiotics

description: Join us... and discover new meanings all through the world of signs.



This event, chaired by William Passarini (Mansarda Acesa) and commented by Mauricio Neubern (University of Brasília), is part of the activities of the 2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing, cooperatively organized by the Institute for Philosophical Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, the Lyceum Institute, the Deely Project, Saint Vincent College, the Iranian Society for Phenomenology at the Iranian Political Science Association, the International Association for Semiotics of Space and Time, the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Semiotic Society of America, the American Maritain Association, the International Association for Semiotic Studies, the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies, the International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue, Moscow State Academic University for the Humanities and the Mansarda Acesa with the support of the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Government of Portugal under the UID/FIL/00010/2020 project.


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Farouk Y. Seif, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at Antioch University Seattle, former President and Executive Director of the Semiotic Society of America, a Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, a registered architect, and an artist. His main interests are design for social and cultural change, paradoxes, transdisciplinarity, and transmodernity. He has taught in universities and lectured at conferences worldwide. He was the recipient of the 2010 Fulbright Specialists Program at University of Sofia, Bulgaria. His book De-Sign in the Transmodern World is a state-of-the-art integration of design and semiotics. Prof. Seif has authored more than 70 articles and a dozen book chapters. His most recent publications are: “De-Sign as a Destiny of Negation: The Paradox of Sustaining Boundaries While Traversing Borders,” The American Journal of Semiotics (2020); “The Role of Pragmatism in De-sign: Persevering Through Paradoxes of Design and Semiotics,” Cognitio: Journal of Philosophy (2020), in Portuguese; “Transdisciplinary Trajectories: The Audacity of Design and the Resilience of Signs,” Trajectories I, Proceedings of the 14th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (2020); “Beyond Forecasting and Prediction: The Role of Phantasmagorical Memory in Imagining the Future,” Journal of Kyiv National Linguistic University (2019); “Imaginary Dialogue with John Deely: Playing with Boundaries Across Space and Time,” The American Journal of Semiotics (2018); “Wholophilia: Design and the Metamorphoses of the Absolute,” Metamorphoses of the Absolute (2018); and “Semiotic Paradoxes: Antinomies and Ironies in a Transmodern World,” Semiotics and its Masters (2017).


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Maurício Neubern is an Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology of the University of Brasília, Brazil. He is currently the coordinator of the Psychology and Religion work group of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Psychology (ANPEPP, Brazil). He is a post-doctoral fellow (Senior Internship, CAPES, 2015/2016) at the Centre Edgar Morin, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. He received his PhD from the University of Brasília (2003) and did a "sandwich" internship (2001/2002) at the Laboratoire de Changement Sociale, Université Paris VII, Paris, France. He was coordinator of the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology and Culture (2013/2015). He is the leader of the research group at CNPq called CHYS - Complexity, Hypnosis and Subjectivity, in which the following research lines linked to hypnosis stand out: a) Clinical applications; b) Epistemology; c) Ethnopsychology; d) Semiotics. His studies cover topics such as hypnotherapy, trance and culture, ethnopsychology, spirituality, body, chronic pain, semiotics and iconicity, and seek to develop complex theoretical references for the understanding of hypnosis. He provides clinical services to the community, conceiving the hypnotherapeutic context both as a mode of intervention and as a way to do research. He is a therapist and trainer of therapists (2008, Teaching competence certificate USA and Brazil).


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