Pub Date : 2022-01-11DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2021.2017102
A. Nocek
Abstract This essay is a critical meditation on what design can do in times unprecedented of global uncertainty. In particular, the article interrogates not only how design can respond to crisis but also how it is at the root of interconnected crises. What design can do cannot be disconnected from the political philosophical question of what design is in the COVID and post-COVID era. Drawing on critical discourses in design theory and the theoretical humanities, the essay conceptualizes the material and political complexity of designing through the lens of biopolitics and necropolitics, and then interrogates what an ethics of theorizing design means in an era when design is at the intersection of multiple crises.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-11DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2021.2019454
Selen Devrim Ülkebaş
Abstract In the 2013 protests, the protesters manifested their claims and emotions with a blend of humor and creativity. The protesters' visual expressions acted as a powerful communication tool that constructed a strong unity among the protesters. Along with other means of expression, the protesters carried out the resistance to the artifacts that they created during the protest. They played with the real-life settings of the artifacts at hand and created new combinations and ways of using them to resist the authorities. Especially the artifacts, which were created through the use of humor, became an essential medium of symbolic confrontation. This article presents visual analysis focusing on the material and expressive aspects of the artifacts and how they served the protest.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-06DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2021.2016323
Ahmed Ansari
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2022)
发表于《设计与文化》：设计研究论坛期刊》（第 14 卷，第 3 期，2022 年）
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Pub Date : 2022-01-04DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2021.2010876
Aggie Toppins
ABSTRACT In “Good History/Bad History” (1991), Tibor Kalman, J. Abbott Miller, and Karrie Jacobs identified critical issues in graphic design history while denouncing imitations of modernist works. At the time, modernists and postmodernists fiercely debated historiography and historical reference, but designers in both camps dismissed nostalgia. In this rewriting of “Good History/Bad History,” I use a historical argument to critique the persistence of canonical histories while drawing on critical theory and decolonial thought to argue that nostalgia can create space for historically marginalized actors. Kalman, Miller, and Jacobs rightfully found fault with design history’s exclusions as well as the indiscriminate copying of its forms, but they did not identify historical quotation as a strategy for rerouting narratives. By using their essay as the armature for mine, I attempt to create a palimpsest of thought that revisits their polemic with an examination of nostalgic impulses that continue to this day.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-16DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2021.2016324
Fatima Cassim
sider context and push back against power structures that need not only to be re-examined, but re-designed. Data has a way of reifying power because data collections, charts, and maps often claim neutrality and objectivity. Yet the authors make a persuasive case that data is never neutral. Data always carries the biases and perspectives of their creators. The lively tone, vivid stories, and illustrations made this book a quick, accessible read. Yet the principles left me with practical guidelines to use long-term in my academic work. In particular, I will seek to Consider Context, remembering the individual amongst the data – even as it gets aggregated. I will Embrace Pluralism to involve the people from whom data was gathered in the use of their data. And of course, while working this way, I will always Examine Power. I highly recommend reading and enacting Data Feminism as a way to open your mind – whether you are new to working with data or come with years of experience in the field. This is not a book to read and set aside; it’s a guide for moving forward and pushing back. And Data Feminism is not just a book for women. It’s a book for everyone.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2021.2012006
Q. Saad
ABSTRACT This study tackles the topic of design in Iraq: its emergence and its signification of modernity since the post-independent era, during which Iraq was a regional center of pioneering Arabic movements in modern literature, arts, and architecture. Emergent design practices are visible in architecture and urban planning, which were delivered by key international architects. This study presents a historical account and contextual analysis of the vital contributions that these designs made to supporting the Iraqi modernity project. Moreover, it indicates the significant role and strategic domination of the sociopolitical order in shaping design practices and education in the country. Methodologically, this study draws from unstructured conversations with members of the Iraqi design community, followed by thematic and context analysis to identify design discourses transformation. The analysis demonstrates that in Iraq design: (a) is a signifier of modernity; (b) contributes to the enhancement of cultural identity and industrialization; (c) has been redirected toward patriotism; and (d) now suffers from decline and chaos.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-16DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2021.1996823
Burren Peil, Brian Kinnee, Rebecca Michelson, D. Rosner
designer who must act. At the book’s beginning, Maldonado warns the reader that the text is fragmented and erratic. But his analysis of design’s relationship to large-scale systems, ecology, social structure, politics, and technology does important work to show the centrality of design for the environment. While sustainable designers today are familiar with the visionary work of Victor Papanek, whose widely celebrated Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change appeared a year after Design, Nature, and Revolution, Maldonado’s book has been largely overlooked. This reprint seeks to rectify this by showing us how we still have a lot to learn and much to remember about design’s role beyond the stylization of individual objects. Maldonado is both a skeptic and a realist. He sees the complex relationships of systems, understands man’s proclivity for concrete manifestation, and envisions hope in the form of design and planning. Maldonado’s book remains a rallying cry to defuse environmental apocalypse by leading with design and planning for what is, he says, “a future devoid so of future” (75).
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