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Design and the Social Imagination by Matthew DelSesto
29.99 AUD
Category: Design | Series: Designing in Dark Times Ser.
How can social theory help us all design solutions to address the social, political and ecological challenges that confront us, and build more sustainable communities? Design professions have typically been associated with intervention and action, while social science has long been associated with thoug ...Show more
Everyday Acts of Design - Learning in a Time of Emergency by Zoy Anastassakis; Clive Dilnot (Series edited by); Marcos Martins; Eduardo Staszowski (Series edited by)
34.99 AUD
Category: Design | Series: Designing in Dark Times Ser.
From 2016-2018, teachers and students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil found themselves at the center of a crisis. A new right-wing government suspended payment of staff salaries and student scholarships and stopped funding basic maintenance. Everyday Acts of Design tells the story of ...Show more
Making Trouble - Design and Material Activism by Otto von Busch; Clive Dilnot (Series edited by); Eduardo Staszowski (Series edited by)
36.99 AUD
Category: Design | Series: Designing in Dark Times Ser.
Otto von Busch examines how power is and can be manifested through the material practice of craft and design. Whereas the state's power takes concrete form in infrastructre such as roads, bridges, pipes, walls, fences, cables and cameras, craft objects and craft practice can be used to challenge the pow ...Show more
The Politics of Everyday Life - Designing a Collaborative Democracy by Ezio Manzini; Clive Dilnot (Series edited by); Eduardo Staszowski (Series edited by)
23.63 AUD
Category: History | Series: Designing in Dark Times Ser.
In Politics of the Everyday, celebrated design theorist Ezio Manzini advocates for the creation of flexible communities which are open and inclusive, and therefore resilient and socially sustainable. He proposes a radical overhaul in how we as individuals spend our time, and in what we value. By choosin ...Show more
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