Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2106348
Nicola St John
Abstract Communication design in the Aboriginal community of Ntaria is situated and mediated by Western Arrarnta Country, which encourages a deeper exploration of the ways culture, knowledge, and identity are intertwined and shape ideas of what “design” might be from many centers. This visual narrative presents the outcomes of a communication design education program with Western Arrarnta young adults, part of a four-year participatory project. For the Ntaria students, design is a tool for telling stories, asserting identity, caring for Country, and intergenerational knowledge sharing. Their digital drawing outcomes reveal how Western Arrarnta communication design practice exists in relation to local ecologies and ontologies. By sharing a distinct Western Arrarnta imagining, these digital drawings contribute to dialogs that are reshaping current understandings of what it means to design; to explore the value and meaning of place, relationships, and community.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-23DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2105529
C. Tonkinwise
Abstract In their new book, Graeber and Wengrow (2021) document the myriad societies and the amount of experimentation and change in social organization that is evident in the archaeological record. Although this controversial macrohistory does not directly speak to non-architectural design studies, I argue that the book should be read by designers, because it poses several challenges to fundamental assumptions about designing: the Eurocentrism of much design theory and education; the location of design solely in late capitalist societies; the distinction of craft from design as a pre-modern non-deliberative material practice; and the focus on user-as-owner-centered design. Instead, Graeber and Wengrow suggest that designers have been – and so can and should be – sources of more ambitious social experimentation.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-23DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2105524
L. Noel
Abstract The design community has made several calls to re-imagine a design education for the future. Here I share a series of visual representations of guiding principles for design curricula that respond to these calls. These sketches were created over several years, exploring visually different objectives for design curricula. In doing the drawings, I wrestle with my own urge to break away from the Ulm-inspired design education of my youth. I created these drawings, often inspired by other images, over several years, as I reflected on design curricula inspired by different contexts: the needs of people in the Global South and of the most “vulnerable” countries (as defined by the United Nations); the pedagogical strategies of Freirean-inspired critical and empowering design education; design education methodologies that mean to promote twenty-first-century skills; design education practices inspired by Latin American decolonial scholars; and, finally, the complexities of pan-African identity. The article acknowledges other examples of decolonial design curricula. While none of the sketches is a complete curriculum, each invites other educators to challenge existing design education paradigms and create culturally relevant curricula for learners in their contexts.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-22DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2103957
Mayane Dore
ABSTRACT This article explores growing concerns behind the potential instrumentalization of participatory design within democratic institutions and city-making projects. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during a participatory urban redevelopment in Sydney, it analyzes the wider political, economic, and cultural dynamics shaping participatory design (PD) in contested urban spaces. As a result, the article reflects on the institutional frameworks that challenged the democratic claims of PD, analyzing three interdependent levels of institutional constraints: ideology, governance, and narratives. In doing so, the article interrogates the role of expert-led urban governance, of neoliberal ideologies, and the power/knowledge relations in the building of a consensus narrative. Finally, the article concludes by highlighting the contingency of the so-called constraints, exploring an alternative conceptualization of institutions as social relations. Following this approach, designers may challenge constraints and simultaneously work with, against, and beyond institutions.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-15DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2103949
R. Leitão
Abstract This paper makes the case that a Pluriversal Social Design should be desire-based. It suggests that the creation of meaningful social change requires moving the focus of design processes from needs to agentic desires. The author understands agentic desire as the creative impulse towards human flourishing. In social design, the current emphasis on needs makes designers continually reproduce the Eurocentric model of life, hindering the creation of genuine alternatives. Moreover, centering collaborative relationships (designing with) on people’s basic needs is often disempowering. Desire-based design is a transformative practice that aims to break with normalcy and orthodoxy (i.e. the familiar way of doing things) to create and recognize alternatives. In the typical process, the designer starts with a need or problem and looks for a desirable solution. This paper suggests the opposite, engaging with desire as a starting point, in an open-ended exploration, and emphasizing people’s agency.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2088195
Alec Barrett
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Pub Date : 2022-05-19DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2066054
Giovanni Marmont
Abstract This article addresses Giorgio Agamben’s radicalization of the category of use, attempting to map out some of the key insights this yields, and seeking to establish the importance that this longstanding preoccupation of the Italian philosopher can have for design studies. It will be proposed that rethinking use with Agamben means rethinking the way we relate not only to artifacts but also to each other, thus possibly inspiring the design of experimental practices of sociality. In other words, it means reconsidering the way we organize and reorganize our senses and movements throughout everyday instances of entanglement with the world. Design debates have tended to subordinate the question of use to concerns over users, artifacts, and production. This exploration pledges instead to focus on alternative potentialities for use itself, ultimately interpreting Agamben’s articulation as the interplay of a certain attitude and a certain relationality that might, if only intermittently, take us beyond the individuating logic of sovereign intentionality.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-19DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2067942
Zhe Wang
Abstract The past five years have seen a rapidly rising “new wave” of design power created by Chinese designers who are devoted to showcasing their works within the legitimate European fashion week system – which includes the “Big Four” fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan, and Paris – to upgrade their cultural status as Chinese design collectives. In addition to showing their collections with a high-end design standard, this group of visual innovators are constantly seeking aesthetic innovations when showing fashion and have gradually been changing and influencing the emerging generation of international-based Chinese designers by displaying and showing fashion at international fashion weeks. This paper integrates and investigates the new aesthetics in fashion visualization brought forward by a collective of emerging international-based Chinese designers who have gradually expanded their cultural influences and re-shaped innovations in contemporary fashion shows within the current global fashion ecosystem. These new aesthetics feature fashion’s new affinity with immersive physical theater, a type of avant-garde post-dramatic theatre, when being shown on a global stage. Furthermore, the rising institutions at Shanghai Fashion Week have been producing and advocating for the formation of international-based Chinese designer collectives to experiment with new aesthetics via multiple forms at London and Shanghai Fashion Weeks between 2017 and 2020, both physically and digitally. This has led to systematic changes and innovations in the global fashion cultural system, in terms of both forming and shaping a new aesthetic identity of Chinese designers within the global fashion system.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-03DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2061137
Ksenija Berk
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Pub Date : 2022-04-27DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2061138
Contributor: Jarrett Fuller
(2022). The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design. Design and Culture. Ahead of Print.
(2022)。设计中的自动人种学转向。设计与文化。超前印刷。
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