| Design and the Question of History Contributor(s): Fry, Tony (Author), Dilnot, Clive (Author), Willis, Anne-Marie (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0857854763 ISBN-13: 9780857854766 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Design | Industrial - Design | Product - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 745.409 |
| LCCN: 2014012207 |
| Series: Design, Histories, Futures |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" (1.05 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of worlds within which the political, ethical and historical character of human being is at stake, this text demands radically transformed notions of both design and history. Above all, the authors posit history as the generational site of the future. Blindness to history, it is suggested, blinds us both to possibility, and to the foreclosure of possibilities, enacted through our designing. The text is not a resolved, continuous work, presented through one voice. Rather, the three authors cut across each other, presenting readers with the task of disclosing, to themselves, the commonalities, repetitions and differences within the deployed arguments, issues, approaches and styles from which the text is constituted. This is a work of friendship, of solidarity in difference, an act of cultural politics. It invites the reader to take a position - it seeks engagement over agreement. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dilnot, Clive: - Clive Dilnot is professor of Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA. Recent publications include Ethics? Design? (2005) and the text for Chris Killip: Pirelli Work (2007).Fry, Tony: - Tony Fry is Director of the sustainment consultancy Team D/E/S and Professor of Design, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art. He is also author of Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Berg, 2008) and Design as Politics (Berg, 2010).Willis, Anne-Marie: - Anne-Marie Willis is a design writer, editor, and educator, and currently professor of design theory at the German University in Cairo. She is editor of the international refereed journal, Design Philosophy Papers and is the author of many papers, articles and three major books.Fry, Tony: - Tony Fry is Director of the sustainment consultancy Team D/E/S and Professor of Design, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art. He is also author of Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Berg, 2008) and Design as Politics (Berg, 2010). |