Design and the question of history
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Design and the question of history
（Design, histories, futures）
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Pub., 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hb ISBN 9780857854766
Description
Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of worlds within which the political, ethical and historical character of human being is at stake, this text demands radically transformed notions of both design and history. Above all, the authors posit history as the generational site of the future. Blindness to history, it is suggested, blinds us both to possibility, and to the foreclosure of possibilities, enacted through our designing.
The text is not a resolved, continuous work, presented through one voice. Rather, the three authors cut across each other, presenting readers with the task of disclosing, to themselves, the commonalities, repetitions and differences within the deployed arguments, issues, approaches and styles from which the text is constituted. This is a work of friendship, of solidarity in difference, an act of cultural politics. It invites the reader to take a position - it seeks engagement over agreement.
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: pb ISBN 9780857854773
Description
Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of worlds within which the political, ethical and historical character of human being is at stake, this text demands radically transformed notions of both design and history. Above all, the authors posit history as the generational site of the future. Blindness to history, it is suggested, blinds us both to possibility, and to the foreclosure of possibilities, enacted through our designing.
The text is not a resolved, continuous work, presented through one voice. Rather, the three authors cut across each other, presenting readers with the task of disclosing, to themselves, the commonalities, repetitions and differences within the deployed arguments, issues, approaches and styles from which the text is constituted. This is a work of friendship, of solidarity in difference, an act of cultural politics. It invites the reader to take a position - it seeks engagement over agreement.
Table of Contents
Preface, Pre-face Essential Reading
Book 1: Wither Design/Whether History, Tony Fry
Introduction
1. Rememberings & Dismemberings
2. Another History, Another Designing
3. Design in the Maelstrom of Time
Book 2: History, Design, Futures, Clive Dilnot
Preface
Introduction: The structure of existence is undergoing a fundamental change
1. Unhappiness: Lack of History, Lack of the Future
2.The Artificial
3. Destructiveness and its Overcoming
4. Apparatus History Acting
Book 3, Susan Stewart
And so to another setting ...
... On Care and Education
Index
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