Tricky Design

The Ethics of Things

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Tricky Design responds to the burgeoning of scholarly interest in the cultural meanings of objects, by addressing the moral complexity of certain designed objects and systems.The volume brings together leading international designers, scholars and critics to explore some of the ways in which the practice of design and its outcomes can have a dark side, even when the intention is to design for the public good. Considering a range of designed objects and relationships, including guns, eyewear, assisted suicide kits, anti-rape devices, passports and prisons, the contributors offer a view of design as both progressive and problematic, able to propose new material and human relationships, yet also constrained by social norms and ideology. This contradictory, tricky quality of design is explored in the editors' introduction, which positions the objects, systems, services and 'things' discussed in the book in relation to the idea of the trickster that occurs in anthropological literature, as well as in classical thought, discussing design interventions that have positive and negative ethical consequences. These will include objects, both material and 'immaterial', systems with both local and global scope, and also different processes of designing. This important new volume brings a fresh perspective to the complex nature of 'things', and makes an original contribution to debates in design ethics, design philosophy and material culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-01-09
Mått:155 x 234 x 10 mm
Vikt:409 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350143050

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Tom Fisher is Professor in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University, UK.Lorraine Gamman is Professor of Design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK.

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In the past forty years the focus of design has broadened considerably. It is about time we addressed the bad and the ugly as well as the good designers do, and this book does just that. A valuable resource for everyone interested in the role of design in society.

Innehållsförteckning

ForewordClive Dilnot, independent, USAIntroduction – Design’s Tricky EthicsTom Fisher, Nottingham Trent, UK and Lorraine Gamman, University of the Arts London, UKSection One, Tricky ThingingChapter 1: Civilian and Military: Design Across an Ethical HorizonTom Fisher, Nottingham Trent University, UKChapter 2: Designers and Brokers of the Mobility RegimeMahmoud Kesharvarz, Uppsala University, SwedenChapter 3: Trickery in Design: Cooptation, Subversion and PoliticsNidhi Srinavas, Parsons School of Design, USA and Eduardo Staszowski, Parsons School of Design, USAChapter 4: Guns and morality: Mediation, Agency and ResponsibilityTim Dant, Lancaster University, UKChapter 5: The Magic that is DesignCameron Tonkinwise, Carnegie Mellon University, USASection Two: Tricky Processes, Tricky PrinciplesChapter 6: Designer/Shapeshifter: A De-colonial Redirection for Speculative and Critical DesignLuiza Prado de O. Martins, A Parede, Germany and Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira, A Parede, GermanyChapter 7: Making 'Safety', Making Freedom: Design and Contested FuturesShana Agid, Parsons School of Design, USAChapter 8: The Nature of ‘Obligation’ in Doing Design with Communities: Participation, Politics and CareAnn Light, University of Sussex, UK and Yoko Akama, RMIT University, USASection Three: Tricky PolicyChapter 9: Designing Policy Objects: Designer as Anti-HeroLucy Kimbell, University of the Arts London, UKChapter 10: Tricky like a Leprachaun – Navigating the Paradoxes of Public Service InnovationAdam Thorpe, University of the Arts London, UKChapter 11: Understanding Suicide and Assisted Dying – Why “Design for Death” is TrickyLorraine Gamman, University of the Arts London, UK and Pras Gunasekera, University of the Arts London, UKChapter 12: The Quest for Purity, 'Clean' Design and a New Ethics of 'Dirty' DesignJeremy Kidwell, University of Birmingham UKConclusionTom Fisher, Nottingham Trent, UK and Lorraine Gamman, University of the Arts London, UK