Design as future-making [electronic resource] / edited by Susan Yelavich and Barbara Adams.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 250) and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- AcknowledgementsForeword, Arjun Appadurai, New York University, USA Introduction: Design as Future-Making, Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design, USASection I. Crafting CapacitiesIntroduction, Barbara Adams, The New School for Social Research, USAThinking Differently about Life: Design, Biomedicine and "Negative Capability", Elio Caccavale, Glasgow School of Art, UK and Tom Shakespeare, University of East Anglia Medical School, UKUnmapping, Sean Donahue, Research-Centered Design, USAFashion Hacking, Otto von Busch, Parsons The New School for Design, USA Digital Crafting and the Challenge to Material Practices, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Design and Conservation, DenmarkPetrified Curtains, Animate Architextiles, Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design, USASection II. Shifting GeographiesIntroduction, Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design, USAUrban Ecologies: Quatre systèmes de conception pour la fabrication de "la Cite;", William Morrish, Parsons The New School of Design, USAArchitecture of Informality, Ivan Kucina, University of Belgrade, SerbiaThe Trans/Local Geography of Olympic Dissent: Activism, Design, Affect, Jilly Traganou, Parsons The New School for Design, USA and Grace Vetrocq Tuttle, communication design specialist, USAGarments as Agents of Change: Lucia Cuba, Hazel Clark, Parsons The New School for Design, USAReturning Duchamp's Urinal to the Bathroom? On the Reconnection of Artistic Experimentation, Social Responsibility and Institutional Transformation, Teddy Cruz, University of California, San Diego, USASze Tsung Leong and Susan Yelavich Interview, Sze Tsung Leong, artist, USASection III. Up-ending SystemsIntroduction, Barbara Adams, The New School for Social Research, USADesigning Time, Anna Barbara, Polytechnic University of Milan, ItalyReasons to Be Cheerful, 1, 2, 3 ... (Or Why the Artificial May Yet Save Us), Clive Dilnot, Parsons The New School for Design, USADesign Away, Cameron Tonkinwise, Carnegie Mellon University, USAPace Layers, Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor and critic, USAForms of Space and Time, Anna Barbara, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy"When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war": Systemic Complexity and the Irregularities of Scale, Jamer Hunt, Parsons The New School, USAAfterword: Tim Marshall, The New School, USAEndnotesBibliographyContributor Biographies.

"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.

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Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2014 dcunns