FOR MAGICAL WORLDS. DESIGN AND THE ONTOLOGICAL TURN

We, modern Westerners, know how to discover. We measure the world, divide it, and model it. We are far less adept at encountering it. Building on the ontological turn in the human sciences over recent decades, this essay examines design projects that, beyond the boundaries of their own discipline, reveal dispositifs for encountering what modernity has often dismissed as hallucination or folklore: invisible forces, energies, entities, and presences. Here, magic is not an illusion but a technology of connection.