Undesign brings together leading artists, designers and theorists working at the intersection of art and design. The text focuses on design practices, and conceptual approaches, which challenge the traditional notion that design should emphasise its utility over aesthetic or other non-functional considerations. This publication brings to light emerging practices that consider the social, political and aesthetic potential of "undesigning" our complex designed world. In documenting these new developments, the book highlights the overlaps with science, engineering, biotechnology and hacktivism, which operate at the intersection of art and design.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2018

ISBN

9781315526355

Edition

Topic

Architecture

Subtopic

Architecture General

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 What is critical design?
2 Notes on more-than-human architecture
3 The un-designability of the virtual: design from problem-solving to problem-finding
4 Critical operationality: Energy and Co-Designing Communities (ECDC) by the Interaction Research Studio (IRS), Goldsmiths, London (2010–2014)
5 A statement for attending to diverse economies through design research
6 ‘I prefer not to’: anti-progressive designing
7 Speculative design as research method: from answers to questions and “staying with the trouble”
8 Inhabiting practices: operating between art, design, science and technology
9 A finger pointing at the moon: absence, emptiness and Ma in design
10 Hacking the semiosphere: the Ad Hoc Atlas: a manifesto as manifestation of undesign, V5.3: an exercise in reflexive (and recursive) design practice about design by design
11 (Un)design, commerce and artistic autonomy: site-specific art in China
12 Bridging counter-culture grassroots initiatives with design
13 Undesigning borders: urban spaces of borders and counter-practices of looking
14 Natural disasters, undesign and the absent interior
15 “Imagination wove this flesh garment”: fashion, critique and capitalism
Index