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Design in Crisis - New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices (Hardcover)
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Design in Crisis - New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices (Hardcover)
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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 problematises 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.
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