Design for the Unthinkable World: Strange Ecology and Unwelcome Change (Design Research for Change)

Synopsis

This edited book contests that if design’s raison d'être is to make things better, then the object of design has always been, remains and can only be a changed world and our relationship to it – the world-for-us.Each chapter was written by carefully selected researchers and practitioners who span geographical, disciplinary, and methodological boundaries in their work. Contributors skilfully examine the case that, while this once might have been seen to be a worthy objective (how else to effect a preferred state and/or pursue the project for the better world?), now the role of designing must cease to service design for change in the manner in which it has been doing. Chapters explore how designing itself might change to explore the possibilities that might exist for the design of what-might-not-become in an unthinkable-world; what Eugene Thacker calls a world-without-us. This world-without-us does not mean a world devoid of humans or an interstellar world, but a world we project that continues to revolve around the sun but no longer revolves around us.This book will be of interest to scholars working in design research, design ecology, product design, service design, experience design, architecture, and information design.

Copyright:

2024

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781003850151

Related ISBNs:

9781003370680, 9781003850137, 9781032438580

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

02/12/24

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, of Craig Bremner, Paul Rodgers, and Giovanni Inella

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Science, Art and Architecture

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Craig Bremner

Edited by:

Paul A. Rodgers

Edited by:

Giovanni Innella