The book Attending [to] Futures – Matters of Politics in Design, Education, Research, Practice, ed. by Johanna Mehl and Carolin Höfler, will be published by adocs this summer!
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SpecSpace's Torben Körschkes, Frieder Bohaumilitzky, Anke Haarmann and Tom Bieling have contributed the chapter "Design of Unrest: Right-wing Metapolitics – Paralogy – Knowledge Spaces – Chaos".
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Abstract (Book): If “design” is the lens through which we glimpse into possible futures, this volume asks: What are the futures we are capable of imagining? As a subject of study, design is enabled and constrained by educational institutions and academic traditions. As a profession it is conditioned by systems of labor. As a creative activity it is shaped by what tools are programmed to do. Authors in this book challenge common ways of knowing, being, and doing in design with regard to the futures they facilitate and interrogate the role, responsibility, and potential of a plurality of design practices in confrontation with social and environmental crises. In this way, this volume does not only ask about designed futures, but also the futures of design: What are the consequences drawn from a critical examination of the histories and politics underlying normative renderings of design? How can we disrupt the perpetuation of biases and reification of social injustices? Self-reflexively engaging their own experiences and work, authors in this volume interrogate design in all its convoluted modalities: as activism, practice, discipline, way of knowing, field of study and set of objects.
Contributions by Abigail Schreider, Adam DelMarcelle, Anastasiia Raina, Anke Haarmann, Ayako, Takase, Becky Nasadowski, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Bonne Zabolotney, Carmem Saito, César Neri, Chris Hamamoto, Chris Lee, Dorsa Javaherian, Edith Lázár, Federico Pérez Villoro, Frederick M.C. van Amstel, Frieder Bohaumilitzky, Heather Snyder Quinn, Henrique Eira, Imad Gebrayel, Ina Scheffler, Isabella Brandalise, Jaione Cerato, Jon Halls, Juan
de la Rosa, Lauren Williams, Lisa Baumgarten, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Marius Förster, Mindy Seu, Mira Schmitz, Ngọc Trieu, Rafaela Angelon, Søren Rosenbak, Sven Quadflieg, Tom Bieling, Torben Körschkes, Zoë Rush. +
Contributions by Abigail Schreider, Adam DelMarcelle, Anastasiia Raina, Anke Haarmann, Ayako, Takase, Becky Nasadowski, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Bonne Zabolotney, Carmem Saito, César Neri, Chris Hamamoto, Chris Lee, Dorsa Javaherian, Edith Lázár, Federico Pérez Villoro, Frederick M.C. van Amstel, Frieder Bohaumilitzky, Heather Snyder Quinn, Henrique Eira, Imad Gebrayel, Ina Scheffler, Isabella Brandalise, Jaione Cerato, Jon Halls, Juan
de la Rosa, Lauren Williams, Lisa Baumgarten, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Marius Förster, Mindy Seu, Mira Schmitz, Ngọc Trieu, Rafaela Angelon, Søren Rosenbak, Sven Quadflieg, Tom Bieling, Torben Körschkes, Zoë Rush. +
The book will be available as a print edition as well as online and for free (Open Access). Publication date will be announced soon.
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