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Long-sighted, radical and provocative, this book offers a foundational framework of concepts, principles and methods (exemplified with selected tools) to enable metadesigners to manage and reinvent their practices.
The book reminds readers that designers are, albeit unwittingly, helping to shape the Anthropocene. Despite their willingness to deliver greener products and services, designers find themselves part of an industry that has become the go-to catalyst for dividends and profit. If our species is to achieve the rehabilitation and metamorphosis, we may need to design at the level of paradigms, genres, lifestyles and currencies. This would mean making design more integrated, comprehensive, adaptive, transdisciplinary, self-reflexive and relational. The book, therefore, advocates a shift of emphasis from designing 'sustainable' products, services and systems towards cultivating synergies that will induce regenerative lifestyles.
The book will be of interest to managers, designers, scholars and educators from a wide range of backgrounds, including design research, design history, design studies and environmental studies.
List of contents
Foreword. The Unthinkable Practice of Designing
Clive Dilnot
Introduction. The Conditions of Design
John Wood
Part 1: Game Changing
1. Up Close and Personal
Mathilda Tham
2. Re-shaping Meaning & Value
Jordan Dalladay-Simpson
3. Languaging Design
Julia Lockheart
Part 2: The Idea of Metadesign
4. Design Science
Paul Taylor
5. A Framework for Metadesign
Caio Adorno Vassão
6. The Poetic Dimension of Metadesign
Elisa Giaccardi
Part 3: Relational Thinking
7. Creative Quartets
John Wood
8. Beyond Human-Centred Design
Hannah Jones
Part 4: Bodies of Knowledge
9. Embodying Ubuntu
Olu Taiwo
10. Organisational Consciousness
John Backwell & John Wood
Part 5: Making Metadesign Work
11. Facilitating 'Team Consciousness'
Anette Lundebye
12. Post-Disciplinary Design
Lara Furniss
13. Optimizing Synergistic Performance in Design
Chuck Ware
Part 6: Beyond the Thinkable
14. Co-exploring the visual metaphors of the Dream
Julia Lockheart
15. Beyond Semiotics
Hyaesook Yang
16. Becoming Polyphibious
Ziva Ljubec
About the author
John Wood is Emeritus Professor of Design at Goldsmiths University of London.
Summary
Long-sighted, radical and provocative, this book offers a foundational framework of concepts, principles, methods (exemplified with selected tools) to enable metadesigners to manage and re-invent their practices.
