Design as Future-Making

by Susan Yelavich (Editor), Barbara Adams (Editor)

Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately, the choices made by designers are understood here as choices about the kind of world we want to live in. Design as Future-Making locates design in a space of creative and critical reflection, examining the expanding nature of practice in fields such as biomedicine, sustainability, digital crafting, fashion, architecture, urbanism, and design activism.

The authors contextualize design and its affects within issues of social justice, environmental health, political agency, education, and the right to pleasure and play. Collectively, they make the case that, as an integrated mode of thought and action, design is intrinsically social and deeply political.

Crafting Capacities / Barbara Adams
Thinking Differently about Life: Design, Biomedicine, and "Negative Capability" / Elio Caccavale and Tom Shakespeare
Unmapping / Sean Donahue
Fashion Hacking / Otto von Busch
Digital Crafting and the Challenge to Material Practices / Mette Ramsgard Thomsen
Petrified Curtains, Animate Architextiles / Susan Yelavich
Shifting Geographies / Susan Yelavich
Urban Ecologies: Quatre systèmes de conception pour la fabrication de "la Cité" / William Morrish
Architecture of Informality / Ivan Kucina
The Trans/Local Geography of Olympic Dissent: Activism, Design, Affect / Jilly Traganou and Grace Vetrocq Tuttle
Garments as Agents of Change: Lucia Cuba / Hazel Clark
Returning Duchamp's Urinal to the Bathroom? On the Reconnection of Artistic Experimentation, Social Responsibility and Institutional Transformation / Teddy Cruz
Picturing Cities / Sze Tsung Leong interviewed by Susan Yelavich
Cities: A Portfolio / Sze Tsung Leong
Up-ending Systems / Barbara Adams
Reasons to Be Cheerful, 1, 2, 3 ...* (Or Why the Artificial May Yet Save Us) / Clive Dilnot
Design Away / Cameron Tonkinwise
Pace Layers / Bruce Sterling
Forms of Space and Time / Anna Barbara
"When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war." Systemic Complexity and the Irregularities of Scale / Jamer Hunt
Afterword: the Designer and the Designed / Tim Marshall

Genres: Design, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 2014