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Considering the hérisson (porcupine/hedgehog): Writing-designing the context essay

This research article explores the possibilities of a designerly writing; writing that is ‘of’ a design practice. Using Derrida’s hérisson (hedgehog/porcupine) from his essay-poem, ‘What is poetry’, as touchstone, it describes the way writing may work into design process. It communicates how programmes at Goldsmiths promote this relationship of writing to practice; describing the inventive space of the ‘context essay’, which is integral to the designing, the students do in their final projects. The context essay requires the invention of new designing-writing, project to project. It elides the processes of invention in design practice with those in design writing.