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Design Activism - Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World (Paperback)
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Design Activism - Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World (Paperback)
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Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of
challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the
current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and
imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and
practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline of design
meets sustainability drivers and equips students, teachers and
professionals for the near-future. New approaches, methods and
tools are urgently required as sustainability expands the context
for design and what it means to be a 'designer'. Design activists,
who comprise a diverse range of designers, teachers and other
actors, are setting new ambitions for design. They seek to
fundamentally challenge how, where and when design can catalyse
positive impacts to address sustainability. They are also
challenging who can utilise the power of the design process. To
date, examination of contemporary and emergent design activism is
poorly represented in the literature. This book will provide a
rigorous exploration of design activism that will re-vitalise the
design debate and provide a solid platform for students, teachers,
design professionals and other disciplines interested in
transformative (design) activism. Design Activism provides a
comprehensive study of contemporary and emergent design activism.
This activism has a dual aim - to make positive impacts towards
more sustainable ways of living and working; and to challenge and
reinvigorate design praxis, . It will collate, synthesise and
analyse design activist approaches, processes, methods, tools and
inspirational examples/outcomes from disparate sources and, in
doing so, will create a specific canon of work to illuminate
contemporary design discourse. Design Activism reveals the power of
design for positive social and environmental change, design with a
central activist role in the sustainability challenge. Inspired by
past design activists and set against the context of global-local
tensions, expressions of design activism are mapped. The nature of
contemporary design activism is explored, from
individual/collective action to the infrastructure that supports it
generating powerful participatory design approaches, a diverse
toolbox and inspirational outcomes. This is design as a political
and social act, design to enable adaptive societal capacity for
co-futuring.
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