| Descript. |
1 online resource (viii, 233 pages) |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Design in crisis, introducing a problematic / Adam Nocek and Tony Fry -- 1. Designing as a futural praxis for the healing of the web of life / Arturo Escobar -- 2. Sacrifices that do not work in crisis / Cameron Tonkinwise -- 3. When design goes south : from decoloniality, through declassification to dessobons / Alfredo Gutierrez -- 4. The designing of time / Anne-Marie Willis -- 5. Designing in the world of the naturalised artificial / Clive Dilnot -- 6. Governmental designing : on the transcendental mediation of the algorithm / Adam Nocek -- 7. Design's missing others and their incommensurate worlds / Ahmed Ansari -- 8. Unlearning and relearning design / Madina Tlostanova -- 9. Knowing what needs : design, refusal, and making otherwise / Shana Agid -- 10. The institutional gap in critical design studies / Damian White -- Afterword : closing in on crisis, opening out of design / Tony Fry and Adam Nocek. |
| Summary |
"This book is an essential contribution to the transdisciplinary field of critical design studies. The essays in this collection locate design at the center of a series of interrelated planetary crises, from climate change, nuclear war, and racial and geopolitical violence to education, computational culture, and the loss of the commons. In doing so, the essays propose a range of needed interventions in order to transform design itself and its role within the shifting realities of a planetary crisis. It challenges the widely popular view that design can contribute to solving world problems by exposing how this attitude only intensifies the problems we currently face. In this way, the essays critique the dominant modes of framing the meaning and scope of design as a largely Anglo-European "problem-solving" practice. By drawing on post-development theory, decolonial theory, black studies, continental philosophy, science and technology studies and more, the contributions envision a critical and speculative practice that problematizes both its engagement with planet and itself. The essays in this collection will appeal to design theorists and practitioners alike, but also to scholars and students generally concerned with how the past and future of design is implicated in the unfolding complexity of ecological devastation, racial and political violence, coloniality, technological futures, and the brutality of modern western culture generally"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Sys Details |
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| Notes |
Tony Fry is Adjunct Professor, Architecture and Design, University of Tasmania, and Visiting Professor, Universidad de Ibagué, Colombia. His research interests span philosophy of design, urban design, futures, conflict studies, and post-development and cultural theory. His latest book is Defuturing: A New Design Philosophy (2020). Adam Nocek is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of Technology in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University. He is the founding director of the Center for Philosophical Technologies at ASU and the author of Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology (2020). |
| Subject |
Design -- Philosophy.
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Crises (Philosophy)
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| Other Author |
Fry, Tony, editor.
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Nocek, A. J., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781003021469 electronic book |
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1003021468 electronic book |
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9781000320091 electronic book |
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100032009X electronic book |
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9781000320077 electronic book |
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1000320073 electronic book |
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9781000320053 electronic book |
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1000320057 electronic book |
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9780367898533 hardback |
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9780367898540 paperback |
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