Design for the Unthinkable World - Strange Ecology and Unwelcome Change

This edited volume contests that if design's raison d'être is to make things better, then the object of design has always been, remains and can only be a changed world and our relationship to it - the world-for-us.

List of contents

Foreword Introductory Words 1. From Forests to Futures: Making and Mapping for Strange Ecologies 2. The Institute of Speculation: Radical Futures & Unthinkable Worlds 3. A Not Too Comfortable Future 4. Cautionary Tales: Speculative Design as Moral Fable 5. The Polygenetic Disorder 6. Not in My Backyard: Supply Chain Experimentation in Critical Design and Craft 7. Be-ing in Place on Unceded Land: Considerations for the Designer Practicing Design on Lands where Sovereignty has Never been Ceded 8. Weird Planet, Weirindg Design 9. Dark Objects: A Theology of the Unseen and the Everyday 10. Hyperobject Design 11. Feral Design

About the author

Craig Bremner is Professor of Design at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Paul A. Rodgers is Professor of Design at the University of Strathclyde, Department of Design Manufacturing & Engineering Management, Scotland.
Giovanni Innella is Associate Professor of Design at VCUarts, Qatar.

Summary

This edited volume contests that if design’s raison d'être is to make things better, then the object of design has always been, remains and can only be a changed world and our relationship to it - the world-for-us.

Product details

• Authors: Craig (Charles Sturt University Bremner
• Assisted by: Paul A. Rodgers (Editor), Craig Bremner (Editor), Giovanni Innella (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.02.2024
• EAN: 9781032438580
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243858-0
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Design Research for Change
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Product Design, DESIGN / Product, ART / History / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art