
Design and the Question of History
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Published on 26. February 2015
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-85785-476-6 (ISBN)
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.More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
536 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85785-476-6 (9780857854766)
DOI
CBID178159
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Tony Fry | Clive Dilnot | Susan Stewart
Design and the Question of History
E-Book
02/2015
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€30.99
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Tony Fry | Clive Dilnot | Susan Stewart
Design and the Question of History
E-Book
02/2015
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€30.99
Available for download
Persons
Tony Fry is Principal of The Studio at the Edge of the World, Tasmania, Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia and Visiting Professor at University of Ibague, Colombia. He is an award-winning designer, cultural theorist, educator and author. He has held academic positions in Australia and internationally and is the author of sixteen books, including Design Futuring (Bloomsbury, 2009), Design as Politics (Bloomsbury, 2011), Becoming Human By Design (Bloomsbury, 2012), Remaking Cities (Bloomsbury, 2017), Defuturing (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Writing Design Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2021). 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). Director of Postgraduate Studies and Curriculum Development, Design School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Author
University of Tasmania, Australia
Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA
University of Technology Sydney, Australia