Caccavale, Elio Thinking differently about life Search this
Physical description:
256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2014
Contents:
Section I. Crafting Capacities -- Introduction / Barbara Adams -- Thinking Differently about Life: Design, Biomedicine, and "Negative Capability" / Elio Caccavale and Tom Shakespeare -- Unmapping / Sean Donahue -- Fashion Hacking / Otto von Busch -- Digital Crafting and the Challenge to Material Practices / Mette Ramsgard Thomsen -- Petrified Curtains, Animate Architextiles / Susan Yelavich -- Section II. Shifting Geographies -- Introduction / Susan Yelavich -- Urban Ecologies: Quatre systèmes de conception pour la fabrication de "la Cite" / William Morrish -- Architecture of Informality / Ivan Kucina -- The Trans/Local Geography of Olympic Dissent: Activism, Design, Affect / Jilly Traganou and Grace Vetrocq Tuttle -- Garments as Agents of Change: Lucia Cuba / Hazel Clark -- Returning Duchamp's Urinal to the Bathroom? On the Reconnection of Artistic Experimentation, Social Responsibility and Institutional Transformation / Teddy Cruz -- Sze Tsung Leong and Susan Yelavich Interview -- Section III. Up-ending Systems -- Introduction / Barbara Adams -- Reasons to Be Cheerful, 1, 2, 3 ... (Or Why the Artificial May Yet Save Us) / Clive Dilnot -- Design Away / Cameron Tonkinwise -- Pace Layers / Bruce Sterling -- Forms of Space and Time / Anna Barbara -- "When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war": Systemic Complexity and the Irregularities of Scale / Jamer Hunt -- Afterword / Tim Marshall
Summary:
"Design as Future-Making is a collection of essays by an international roster of leading designers and theorists who share a new understanding of design as a socio-material practice embedded within a multiplicity of ways of making the world. Issues such as social justice, environmental health, political agency, education, and even the right to pleasure and play, are customarily thought of as dematerialised ideas and values. Yet, each of those realms of daily life are affected by - indeed, determined by - their physical and virtual contexts. Design as Future-Making argues that design is not only integral to social issues, but it is also an integrated mode of thought and action - one that variously draws on and informs disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political science, and psychology"-- Provided by publisher.
