The Cacheian Objectile: design fictions of the furnishing of territories

Hales, Derek

Abstract

The Architect and Designer Bernard Cache suggested a renewed need to pursue the concept of technical objects as ‘objectile’ by philosophical rather than architectural means, reversing an earlier dedication to pursuing architecture by other (i.e. philosophical) means. There remains more to do in either regard, and this article contributes to such work by deploying objectiles in different registers than those originally intended. In the following pages, I deliberately misread one of Cache’s examples to consider it a digital design fiction—one that is used to demonstrate the concepts at work in Cache’s book within their philosophical frame and yet mobilized in new ways shifting the register of interest in objectiles to the furnishing of territories themselves—and to design fictions of scale-shifting and time-travel devices.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 11, 2025
• Publication Date: Apr 30, 2025
• Deposit Date: Jun 3, 2025
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 3, 2025
• Journal: Digital Creativity
• Print ISSN: 1462-6268
• Electronic ISSN: 1744-3806
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2025.2494818