Design and the Question of History

Tony Fry, Clive Dilnot, Susan Stewart (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2015
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-0-85785-477-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Tony Fry is an adjunct professor, Griffith University, Brisbane and is a visiting professor at several universities internationally. Tony has published ten books, including Becoming Human by Design (Bloomsbury, 2012), Design as Politics (Bloomsbury, 2010) and Design Futuring (Bloomsbury, 2008). 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). Susan C. Stewart is Director of Postgraduate Studies and Curriculum Development, Design School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Preface, Pre-face Essential Reading

Book 1: Wither Design/Whether History, Tony Fry
Introduction
1. Rememberings & Dismemberings
2. Another History, Another Designing
3. Design in the Maelstrom of Time

Book 2: History, Design, Futures, Clive Dilnot
Preface
Introduction: The structure of existence is undergoing a fundamental change
1. Unhappiness: Lack of History, Lack of the Future
2.The Artificial
3. Destructiveness and its Overcoming
4. Apparatus History Acting

Book 3, Susan Stewart
And so to another setting …
… On Care and Education

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.2.2015
Reihe/Serie	Design, Histories, Futures
Zusatzinfo	3 bw diagrams
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	372 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-85785-477-1 / 0857854771
ISBN-13	978-0-85785-477-3 / 9780857854773
Zustand	Neuware