In its wandering between emotions and rules, exactness and vagueness, design moves within malleable environments; and as disciplines proliferate, the work of a designer becomes prone to contradictory interpretations. In the attempt to avoid rules new ones are generated; changing values, and social and commercial implication interact in more or less tangible form, providing economic support to the global system, in a society striving for an unattainable common identity. As a result, trying to make design fit into a consistent historical continuity ends up making it too simple or too complex, thus causing it to resort to unlikely authenticity, forced insights, and reducing the new functions\u2019 semantic strength to the usual images. After m...
Starting from the late sixties era of youth cultural rebellion, the text relates forty years of prod...
If we have to ask ourselves what the practice of Design will be like in the near future, we certainl...
Creativity moves from the exclusive domain of the designer intothe space between disciplines and bet...
In its wandering between emotions and rules, exactness and vagueness, design moves within malleable ...
International audienceIn 1956, anthropologist Gregory Bateson developed the concept of “double bind”...
Published in: G. Lovink & M. Gerritzen (eds), Everyone is a Designer in the Age of Social Media. Abs...
The world is filled with artefacts/products, systems, and environments. We consider these to be made...
Design, in the broad sense, did not escape the paradoxical trend of specialization and unification. ...
Transition Design requires a different kind of designer, one who is not subject to the same kinds of...
This book is an attempt to develop rules that can provide guidance for the contemporary product desi...
Design is reemerging again as an active system of enquiry for cultural production with a wide rangin...
Often proliferating in far territories and always placing itself within the track of innovation, bet...
A lot has been written about artists and designers fate to lead society onto new levels of developme...
Design has always played a role in envisioning the next shape of the world. The nature of the proces...
In a time when profound sociocultural and technological changes are affecting the design discipline,...
Starting from the late sixties era of youth cultural rebellion, the text relates forty years of prod...
If we have to ask ourselves what the practice of Design will be like in the near future, we certainl...
Creativity moves from the exclusive domain of the designer intothe space between disciplines and bet...
In its wandering between emotions and rules, exactness and vagueness, design moves within malleable ...
International audienceIn 1956, anthropologist Gregory Bateson developed the concept of “double bind”...
Published in: G. Lovink & M. Gerritzen (eds), Everyone is a Designer in the Age of Social Media. Abs...
The world is filled with artefacts/products, systems, and environments. We consider these to be made...
Design, in the broad sense, did not escape the paradoxical trend of specialization and unification. ...
Transition Design requires a different kind of designer, one who is not subject to the same kinds of...
This book is an attempt to develop rules that can provide guidance for the contemporary product desi...
Design is reemerging again as an active system of enquiry for cultural production with a wide rangin...
Often proliferating in far territories and always placing itself within the track of innovation, bet...
A lot has been written about artists and designers fate to lead society onto new levels of developme...
Design has always played a role in envisioning the next shape of the world. The nature of the proces...
In a time when profound sociocultural and technological changes are affecting the design discipline,...
Starting from the late sixties era of youth cultural rebellion, the text relates forty years of prod...
If we have to ask ourselves what the practice of Design will be like in the near future, we certainl...
Creativity moves from the exclusive domain of the designer intothe space between disciplines and bet...