Making Trouble: Design and Material Activism

by Otto von Busch, Clive Dilnot (Series Editor), Eduardo Staszowski (Series Editor)

Making hacks into reality. It engages matter in ways that trespass the boundaries between the civic realm and the state-assigned laws. Even with primitive tools and skills, designing and making can break open and repurpose arrangements of power. The proof is that some crafts are so controversial-lock-picking, moonshining, shoplifting, smuggling, sabotage-that they need to be controlled or even outlawed. When designers and makers touch on these contested realms, they run into trouble. This highly original book explores how the material power of design and making can challenge arrangements of agency and domination. Unpacking a series of conflicting cases-from illegal making to the strategic and civic use of crafts to manifest radical alternatives to the current order-it shows how designers and makers can use even basic tools to work towards more.

Genres: Design

256 pages, Paperback

Published June 2, 2022

Reviews

[Evelina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tyckte jättemycket om den här! Första gången jag läste något av OvB var hans text i Konsthantverk i Sverige del 1, otrolig text som är väldigt lik den här boken och bra intro. Gillar den humoristiska tonen, de personliga berättelserna om att tvingas lära sig att dyrka lås för att få vara inne på rasterna, jämte mörk och aktuell design som kärnkraft, tortyr, strukturer för förtryck. En bok som spretar åt alla håll men håller en tydlig linje. Gillar också att reaktor-Rickard nämns! Hoppas få läsa fler böcker i serien.

[ties · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting but sometimes superficial due to lack of philosophical depth