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Zusatztext Summing Up: Recommended. Informationen zum Autor Lorraine Gamman is Professor of Design, at Central Saint Martins (CSM) College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London (UAL), where she has taught design and contextual studies since 1989. She is also currently a Visiting Professor and Research Associate at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Australia. Gamman has published widely on visual culture and design, including co-authored academic books, articles and critical reviews. She now lives in Stoke Newington with her partner and daughter. Vorwort Tricky Things addresses the cultural meanings and ethical dilemmas posed by certain designed objects, exploring the ambiguity of notions of 'good design' in relation to such objects as guns, assisted suicide kits, passports and anti-rape devices. Zusammenfassung Tricky Design responds to the burgeoning of scholarly interest in the cultural meanings of objects, by addressing the moral complexity of certain designed objects and systems. The volume brings together leading international designers, scholars and critics to explore some of the ways in which the practice of design and its outcomes can have a dark side, even when the intention is to design for the public good. Considering a range of designed objects and relationships, including guns, eyewear, assisted suicide kits, anti-rape devices, passports and prisons, the contributors offer a view of design as both progressive and problematic, able to propose new material and human relationships, yet also constrained by social norms and ideology. This contradictory, tricky quality of design is explored in the editors' introduction, which positions the objects, systems, services and 'things' discussed in the book in relation to the idea of the trickster that occurs in anthropological literature, as well as in classical thought, discussing design interventions that have positive and negative ethical consequences. These will include objects, both material and 'immaterial', systems with both local and global scope, and also different processes of designing. This important new volume brings a fresh perspective to the complex nature of 'things', and makes a truly original contribution to debates in design ethics, design philosophy and material culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Clive Dilnot, independent, USA Introduction – Design’s Tricky Ethics Tom Fisher, Nottingham Trent, UK and Lorraine Gamman, University of the Arts London, UK Section One, Tricky Thinging Chapter 1: Civilian and Military: Design Across an Ethical Horizon Tom Fisher, Nottingham Trent University, UK Chapter 2: Designers and Brokers of the Mobility Regime Mahmoud Kesharvarz, Uppsala University, Sweden Chapter 3: Trickery in Design: Cooptation, Subversion and Politics Nidhi Srinavas, Parsons School of Design, USA and Eduardo Staszowski, Parsons School of Design, USA Chapter 4: Guns and morality: Mediation, Agency and Responsibility Tim Dant, Lancaster University, UK Chapter 5: The Magic that is Design Cameron Tonkinwise, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Section Two: Tricky Processes, Tricky Principles Chapter 6: Designer/Shapeshifter: A De-colonial Redirection for Speculative and Critical Design Luiza Prado de O. Martins, A Parede, Germany and Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira, A Parede, Germany Chapter 7: Making 'Safety', Making Freedom: Design and Contested Futures Shana Agid, Parsons School of Design, USA Chapter 8: The Nature of ‘Obligation’ in Doing Design with Communities: Participation, Politics and Care Ann Light, University of Sussex, UK and Yoko Akama, RMIT University, USA Section Three: Tricky Policy Chapter 9: Designing Policy Objects: Designer as Anti-Hero Lucy Kimbell, University of the Arts London, UK Chapter 10: Tricky like a Leprachaun – Navi...
