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List of contents
1. Introduction
Jilly Traganou
SECTION 1: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AS DESIGN AGENTS
Part 1: Visuals and Objects of Protest
2. The Green Stripe: The Color of Identification
Victoria Hattam
3. Strategies of Creative Dissent under the People’s Republic of China’s ‘One China Policy’
Wendy Wong
4. The Slovene Zombie Uprising
Ksenija Berk
5. The Distribution of Abilities: Disability, Dissent, and Design Activism by the Gothenburg Cooperative for Independent Living
Otto Von Busch and Hanna af Ekström
Part 2: Artifacts in the Afterlife of Protest
6. Art of the March: Archiving Aesthetics of the Women’s March—Interviews with Alessandra Renzi, Dietmar Offenhuber, Siqi Zhu, Christopher Pietsch, and Navarjun Singh
Grace Van Ness and Prakash Krishnan
7. Dissent, Design of Territory, and Design of Memory: The Museum of Slavery and Freedom at the Valongo Wharf, Rio de Janeiro
Barbara Szaniecki and Ana Helena da Fonseca
8. Beautiful Trouble: A Pattern Language of Creative Resistance—An Interview with Nadine Bloch
Evren Uzer
Response to Section 1
9. Response to Section 1. The Objects of Political Creativity
James Jasper
SECTION 2: DISSENTING THROUGH MATERIAL ENGAGEMENT
Part 1: Political Contention by Design
10. Vulnerable Critical Makings: Migrant Smuggling by Boats and Border Transgression
Mahmoud Κeshavarz
11. The Madrid Hologram Protest and the Democratic Potential of Visuality
Ksenija Berk
12. Data Acquisition, Data Analytics, and Data Articulations: DIY Accountability Tools and Resistance in Indonesia—An Interview with Irendira Radjawali of Drone Academy, Indonesia
Alessandra Renzi
13. Politics of Design Activism—From Impure Politics to Parapolitics
Thomas Markussen
Part 2: Spaces of Contestation and Prefiguration
14. The Agonistic Design of Conflict Kitchen
Veronica Uribe
15. Events and Ecologies of Design and Urban Activism: From Downtown São Paulo to the Peripheries
Kristine Samson
16. Temporarily Open: A Brazilian Design School’s Experimental Approaches against the Dismantling of Public Education: A Conversation on Design Pedagogy as Dissent.
Zoy Anastassakis, Marcos Martins, Lucas Nonno, Juliana Paolucci, and Jilly Traganou
17. Designing Post-carbon Futures: The Prefigurative Politics of the Transition Movement
Emily Hardt
18. Occupied Theater Embros: Designing and Maintaining the Commons in Athens under Crisis—An Interview with Eleni Tzirtzilaki
Orsalia Dimitriou
Response to Section 2
19. Response to Section 2. Designing while Dissenting while Dissenting while Designing: A Response in Counterpoint
Zoy Anastassakis
About the author
Jilly Traganou is an architect, and Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Parsons School of Design, The New School. She is co-editor-in chief of Design and Culture, and author of Designing the Olympics: Representation, Participation, Contestation (Routledge, 2016).
Summary
This book examines, through an interdisciplinary lens, the relationship between political dissent and processes of designing.
