Design in the Borderlands

ISBN-13: 9780415725187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 198 str.

Eleni Kalantidou; Tony Fry

Opis

This book makes a significant contribution to advancing post-geographic understandings of physical and virtual boundaries. It brings together the emergent theory of 'border thinking' with innovative thinking on design, and explores the recent discourse on decoloniality and globalism. From a variety of viewpoints, the topics engaged show how design was historically embedded in the structures of colonial imposition, and how it is implicated in more contemporary settings in the extension of 'epistemological colonialism'. The essays draw on perspectives from diverse geo-cultural and theoretical positions including architecture, design theory and history, sociology, critical theory and cultural studies. The authors are leading and emergent figures in their fields of study and practice, and the geographic scope of the chapters ranges across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South America, Asia, and the Pacific. In recognition of the complexity of challenges that are now determining the future security of humanity, Design in the Borderlands aims to contribute to 'thinking futures' by adding to the increasingly significant debate between design, in the context of the history of Western modernity, and decolonial thought.

Spis treści

1. Design in the Borderlands: an Introduction  2. China vs China: Conflict and Translation  3. Back to the Third World: the Greek Experience  4. Modernity and Design in the Arab World: Professional Identity and Social Responsibility  5. Timor-Leste: Unlearning in Order to Be  6. Urban Design for the Global South: Ontological Design in Practice  7. Africa: Designing as Existence  8. Counter-Mapping and Globalism  9. A Note from Brazil: Looking at the Production of Design Knowledge in Brazil  10. Looking from the Other Side of the Street: Youth, Participation and the Arts in the Edgelands of Urban Manchester  11. An Exchange: Questions from Tony Fry and Eleni Kalantidou and Answers from Walter Mignolo