Design and the Question of History

ISBN-13: 9780857854773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str.

Clive Dilnot; Tony Fry; Susan Stewart

Opis

Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of worlds within which the political, ethical and historical character of human being is at stake, this text demands radically transformed notions of both design and history. Above all, the authors posit history as the generational site of the future. Blindness to history, it is suggested, blinds us both to possibility, and to the foreclosure of possibilities, enacted through our designing. The text is not a resolved, continuous work, presented through one voice. Rather, the three authors cut across each other, presenting readers with the task of disclosing, to themselves, the commonalities, repetitions and differences within the deployed arguments, issues, approaches and styles from which the text is constituted. This is a work of friendship, of solidarity in difference, an act of cultural politics. It invites the reader to take a position - it seeks engagement over agreement.

Recenzje

A forceful and inspiringly articulated set of essays ... Compelling and insightful. Journal of Design History 20151124

Spis treści

Preface, Pre-face Essential ReadingBook 1: Wither Design/Whether History, Tony FryIntroduction1. Rememberings & Dismemberings2. Another History, Another Designing3. Design in the Maelstrom of TimeBook 2: History, Design, Futures, Clive DilnotPrefaceIntroduction: The structure of existence is undergoing a fundamental change1. Unhappiness: Lack of History, Lack of the Future2.The Artificial3. Destructiveness and its Overcoming4. Apparatus History ActingBook 3, Susan StewartAnd so to another setting .. On Care and EducationIndex

O autorze

Tony Fry is Principal of The Studio at the Edge of the World, Tasmania, Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia and Visiting Professor at Universidad de Ibagué, Colombia. He is an award-winning designer, cultural theorist, educator and author. He has held academic positions in Australia and internationally and is the author of sixteen books, including Design Futuring (Bloomsbury, 2009); Design as Politics (Bloomsbury, 2011), Becoming Human By Design (Bloomsbury, 2012), Remaking Cities (Bloomsbury, 2017), Defuturing (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Writing Design Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2021). Clive Dilnot is professor of Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA. Recent publications include Ethics? Design? (2005) and the text for Chris Killip: Pirelli Work (2007). Director of Postgraduate Studies and Curriculum Development, Design School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.