Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2023.2213060
Chiara Del Gaudio
Abstract What should we understand about designing against infrastructures of oppression and marginalization? Research articles and social technologies produced by our design community have focused on procedures for action. Through this technicist approach, we have often disregarded the experiences of the participants of this type of design process, excluding their voices from institutionalized design knowledge, and thus replicating their invisibility. To overcome this, it is necessary to understand what characterizes people’s experiences and drives their participation, how these processes and practices interweave with their lives, and to bring their voices to the core of our research outcomes. These reflections emerge out of interviews with the participants of a design project in a Brazilian favela. The need for a more complex and multilayered perspective for design processes against infrastructures of oppression and marginalization emerges, together with the understanding of desire and affection, as critical factors in the process of unmaking them.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2023.2216105
Melissa Burch, Nicole A. Burrowes, Marisol LeBrón, Amaka Okechukwu, Jennifer Rittner, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, P. Austin, S. Agid
For this roundtable discussion, we were excited to have an opportunity to bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of areas to talk about the themes of this special issue of Design and Culture. We were especially interested in thinking about what we might learn from the interplay of history and design practices – whether formal or informal – specifically in relation to sites of confinement. What might happen, we wondered, if the conversations in the issue Melissa Burch mlburch@umich.edu
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Pub Date : 2023-04-24DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2023.2188545
Miriam Oesterreich
ABSTRACT Far more than simply a geographical line, the Mexico–US border is a space wherein aesthetic processes are negotiated, a performative space that attracts and spurs a critical and creative imagination. The essay examines the border as a location of design from various perspectives. Firstly, the real-existing border and its recent installations and installation proposals will be considered, before the attention will be turned to conceptual designs which, understood as examples of artistic practice, broach the issue of such facilities and seek to subvert them through ideas. Contemporary art and design projects address the constructional character of the border and, in part, also deconstruct it, challenging stereotypical ascriptions and thus turning the rigid fixations brittle and friable, making the border porous. Design puts the imaginary into play, altering the perception of boundaries and what it means to shift and transgress them.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2023.2187080
Kristina Lindström, Åsa Ståhl
Abstract This article proposes un/making as a designerly response to urgent environmental issues. By focusing on the simultaneous constructive and destructive aspects of design, this effort attempts to challenge design’s dominant focus on making new things. The implications and potentialities of un/making are explored through a designerly inquiry into ongoing and emerging attempts to ban the plastic straw. Based on this inquiry, the article proposes an approach to un/making that is driven by speculative, what if questions, informed by the history of the plastic straw: from coming into being to becoming preferable and now emerging as a matter of concern. Through a series of speculative design artifacts, the authors articulate matters at stake in the un/making of the plastic straw. They also show how these matters are a stake in the un/making of disposability as part of a preferable future. Rather than proposing one preferable future, the article highlights the frictions that emerge in un/making.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2023.2180904
Virginia Tassinari, E. Manzini
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Pub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2141159
P. Kaygan, Harun Kaygan, Asuman Özgür Keysan
Abstract This paper explores the gendered interactions that are mediated by designed products in actual use contexts. Our case is vehicle design for public transportation, a product category that is, from the outset, relatively gender-neutral when compared to explicitly gender-segregated categories such as household electronics, cars, and toys, even if public transit users are more often women than men. The empirical basis of research comes from interviews with women passengers. Our analysis demonstrates that seemingly gender-neutral designs can be merely gender-blind in that they have significant impact in the gendered experiences of its users, which includes, in this case, being exposed to or feeling at risk of sexual harassment and assault in public transportation as a woman. Therefore, feminist design interventions into mobility environments can provide immediate practical solutions that would complement policy and lawmaking efforts that are necessary to ensure safety for women on public transport.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2141802
K. Mchunu
Abstract This article focuses on the work of Thuli Princess Sebenzise Khoza, one of over 350 bead artists from a community-based arts and crafts project called Woza Moya, which is located in Hillcrest, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In this article, I use the concepts of the matri-archive, informed largely by Annalisa Piccirillo (2014), and creativity drawn from the work of Vlad Glăveanu (2011 ) and Glăveanu and Sierra (2015 ) to analyze the design and creation process for Khoza’s beaded works: the Princess earrings and Christmas tree angels. I use observations, photographs, and interviews taken over an eleven-month period to formulate the description and analysis. This study shows that conceptualization of these beaded works includes Woza Moya’s director, Paula Thomson, and marketer. Analyzing Khoza’s creation process, however, discloses how she retrieves and adapts fragments of matri-archival resources to inform her design process, as well as how she transmits knowledge by including her daughter, niece, and husband in the process. In this article, I argue that an organization such as Woza Moya employs an inclusive design process in which diverse forms of knowledges – such as those drawn from the matri-archive – are given value and appropriately incorporated into product development.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-15DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2136904
Elaine Lopez
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Pub Date : 2022-11-15DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2136562
Merle K. Ibach
ABSTRACT The 3D printer is a “projection screen” for the eco-social maker movement. It signifies a desire for networked collaboration, ecological and social participation, political empowerment, and socioeconomic transformation. Yet the 3D printer is not producing anything that fulfils such a comprehensive and disruptive potential. While it has become a profound agent for a commons-based future that aims to solve the global challenges of modernity, it is a tool, rather than an agent of the maker movement. This article explores the utopian potential of the 3D printer within the discourse of commons-based future-making. Along with a wide range of academic and popular literature, the sociotechnical motives of a commons-based imaginary are analyzed and discussed in their historical construction and social order. Indeed, the 3D printer revitalizes longstanding desires for social transformation, giving them fresh impetus. Because of its interpretative flexibility, the 3D printer has become a “weak desire machine” that allows members of the maker movement to express their utopian desires. On the one hand, the 3D printer helps make utopian desires tangible and negotiable. On the other hand, the 3D printer tends to promote a techno-positivist approach that oversimplifies social change, losing sight of alternatives and ambiguities.
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