Precarious Objects - Activism and Design in Italy

This is a timely exploration of the traffic between design and activism in the context of precarity - a social and material condition brought about by the growth of temporary, informal and irregular work. The book shows how design objects and practices open up possibilities to recode and reconfigure the effects of precarity.

List of contents

List of plates
Acknowledgements
Introduction: design, activism and precarity
1 MayDay! MayDay! Precarious objects and parades
2 Serpica Naro: precarity in the fashion system
3 Making otherwise: WeMake, a makerspace in Milan
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index

About the author

Ilaria Vanni, University of Technology Sydney, is Associate Professor of International Studies and Global Societies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Product details

• Authors: Ilaria Vanni, Ilaria Vanni Accarigi
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781526135537
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3553-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design and Material
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Theory of art, ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / European, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Italy, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Material Culture