Didacticism

Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature, art and design.[1][2][3] In art, design, architecture and landscape, didacticism is an emerging conceptual approach that is driven by the urgent need to explain.[3]

For the teaching method, see Didactic method.
"Didactic" redirects here. For the album by Means End, see The Didact.

When applied to ecological questions, didacticism in art, design, architecture and landscape attempts to persuade the viewer of environmental priorities; thus, constituting an entirely new form of explanatory discourse that presents, what can be called “eco-lessons".[4] This concept can be defined as "ecological didacticism".[5]

Overview

The term has its origin in the Ancient Greek word διδακτικός (didaktikos), "related to education and teaching", and signified learning in a fascinating and intriguing manner.[6]

Didactic art was meant both to entertain and to instruct. Didactic plays, for instance, were intended to convey a moral theme or other rich truth to the audience.[7][8] An example of didactic writing is Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711), which offers a range of advice about critics and criticism. An example of didactism in music is the chant Ut queant laxis, which was used by Guido of Arezzo to teach solfege syllables.

Around the 19th century the term didactic came to also be used as a criticism for work that appears to be overburdened with instructive, factual, or otherwise educational information, to the detriment of the enjoyment of the reader (a meaning that was quite foreign to Greek thought). Edgar Allan Poe called didacticism the worst of "heresies" in his essay The Poetic Principle.

Examples

Some instances of didactic literature include:

Some examples of research that investigates didacticism in art, design, architecture and landscape:

  • Du Didactisme en Architecture / On Didacticism in Architecture. (2019). In C. Cucuzzella, C. I. Hammond, S. Goubran, & C. Lalonde (Eds.), Cahiers de Recherche du LEAP (Vol. 3). Potential Architecture Books.[3]
  • Cucuzzella, C., Chupin, J.-P., & Hammond, C. (2020). Eco-didacticism in art and architecture: Design as means for raising awareness. Cities, 102, 102728.[5]

Some examples of art, design, architecture and landscape projects that present eco-lessons.[4]

See also

References
  1. What’s Wrong with Didacticism? Academia.edu, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013
  2. Didactic Literature or حخ, University of Houston–Clear Lake, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013
  3. Du potentiel du didactisme en architecture. Cucuzzella, Carmela, 1962-, Hammond, Cynthia Imogen. Montréal (Quebec), Canada. 2019. ISBN 978-1-988962-03-0. OCLC 1082357029.CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. "Eco-didactic Turn in Art and Design in the Public Realm – IDEAS-BE". Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  5. Cucuzzella, Carmela; Chupin, Jean-Pierre; Hammond, Cynthia (July 2020). "Eco-didacticism in art and architecture: Design as means for raising awareness". Cities. 102: 102728. doi:10.1016/j.cities.2020.102728.
  6. RELIGIOUS AWAKENING STORIES IN LATE MEDIEVAL JAPAN: THE DYNAMICS OF DIDACTICISM, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013
  7. Didacticism in Morality Plays, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013
  8. Glossary of Literary Terms Archived 2013-11-03 at the Wayback Machine, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013
  9. Didacticism Archived 2015-05-04 at the Wayback Machine, Boston College Libraries, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013

Further reading
  • Glaisyer, Natasha and Sara Pennell. Didactic Literature in England, 1500-1800: Expertise Reconstructed'.' (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2003).
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