
Critical Fabulations
Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design
Daniela K. Rosner(Author)
MIT Press
Published on 29. December 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-0-262-54268-5 (ISBN)
Description
A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.
In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally situated, responsive and responsible. Challenging the field's dominant paradigms and reinterpreting its history, Rosner wants to change the way we historicize the practice, reworking it from the inside. Focusing on the development of computational systems, she takes on powerful narratives of innovation and technology shaped by the professional expertise that has become integral to the field's mounting status within the new industrial economy. To do so, she intervenes in legacies of design, expanding what is considered "design" to include long-silenced narratives of practice, and enhancing existing design methodologies based on these rediscovered inheritances. Drawing on discourses of feminist technoscience, she examines craftwork's contributions to computing innovation--how craftwork becomes hardware manufacturing, and how hardware manufacturing becomes craftwork.
In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally situated, responsive and responsible. Challenging the field's dominant paradigms and reinterpreting its history, Rosner wants to change the way we historicize the practice, reworking it from the inside. Focusing on the development of computational systems, she takes on powerful narratives of innovation and technology shaped by the professional expertise that has become integral to the field's mounting status within the new industrial economy. To do so, she intervenes in legacies of design, expanding what is considered "design" to include long-silenced narratives of practice, and enhancing existing design methodologies based on these rediscovered inheritances. Drawing on discourses of feminist technoscience, she examines craftwork's contributions to computing innovation--how craftwork becomes hardware manufacturing, and how hardware manufacturing becomes craftwork.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Illustrations
37 black and white photos
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
369 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-54268-5 (9780262542685)
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07/2018
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Person
Daniela K. Rosner is Assistant Professor in Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington, where she codirects HCDE's Tactile and Tactical Design Lab.
Content
Series Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Why Fabulate Design? 1
1 The Intellectual Foundations of the Dominant Design Paradigm 23
2 Feminist Correctives in Design 41
3 Encountering Critical Fabulations: A Personal Journey 59
4 Approaching Design as Critical Fabulations 81
5 Fabulating in Practice 101
Conclusion: Finding an Elsewhere 121
Afterword 127
Notes 129
Bibliography 169
Index 193
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Why Fabulate Design? 1
1 The Intellectual Foundations of the Dominant Design Paradigm 23
2 Feminist Correctives in Design 41
3 Encountering Critical Fabulations: A Personal Journey 59
4 Approaching Design as Critical Fabulations 81
5 Fabulating in Practice 101
Conclusion: Finding an Elsewhere 121
Afterword 127
Notes 129
Bibliography 169
Index 193