Design as Future-Making

by Yelavich, Susan; Adams, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780857858382
• ISBN10: 0857858386
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-11-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately, the choices made by designers are understood here as choices about the kind of world we want to live in. Design as Future-Making locates design in a space of creative and critical reflection, examining the expanding nature of practice in fields such as biomedicine, sustainability, digital crafting, fashion, architecture, urbanism, and design activism.

The authors contextualize design and its affects within issues of social justice, environmental health, political agency, education, and the right to pleasure and play. Collectively, they make the case that, as an integrated mode of thought and action, design is intrinsically social and deeply political.

Author Biography

Susan Yelavich is an Associate Professor and Director of the MA in Design Studies program in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons The New School for Design, USA.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Arjun Appadurai, New York University and the New School for Social Research, USA
Introduction: Design as Future-Making, Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design, USA
Section I.
Introduction: Crafting Capacities, Barbara Adams, The New School for Social Research, USA
Design as Applied Philosophy, Astra Taylor, film-maker, USA
Digital Crafting: Approaches for a Responsive Architecture, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Denmark
Working Towards Sustainable Urbanization with the UN Urban Habitat Program, William Morrish, Parsons The New School, USA
Unmapping Design, Sean Donahue, Research-Centered Design, USA
Fashion Hacking, Otto von Busch, Parsons The New School for Design, USA
Bio-Ethics Futures, Elio Caccavale, Goldsmiths College, Reading University, Imperial College London, UK
Section II.
Introduction: Shifting Geographies, Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design, USA
The Art of Balkanization, Ivan Kucina, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Global Fashion/Local Culture(s), Hazel Clark, Parsons The New School for Design, USA
Border Urbanism: Strategies of Surveillance, Tactics of Encroachment, Teddy Cruz, University of California, San Diego, USA
Localizing Design: Case Studies from Rwanda and Haiti, Michael Murphy;
Olympic Culture: National and Post-national Identities, Georgia Traganou, Parsons The New School for Design, USA
Photo Essay: Far and Familiar, Sze Tsung Leong, artist, USA
Section III.
Introduction: Up-ending Systems, Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design, USA
Issues of Scale, Jamer Hunt, Parsons The New School, USA
Designing Time, Anna Barbara, NABA Italian Design Academy, Italy
The Ethics and Capacities of Design, Clive Dilnot, Parsons The New School for Design, USA
Design Away, Cameron Tonkinwise, Parsons The New School for Design, USA
The Forensics of Object Surveillance, Bruce Sterling, novelist, USA
Afterword: Tim Marshall, The New School, USA