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Design Pedagogy for Enhancing Peer Learning and Creative Thinking Design and Culture Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Chong-Wen Chen
This reflective statement of practice presents pedagogy and experiences for cultivating creativity for first-year students in design education. My emphasis is on improving classroom engagement and ...
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Queer Print in Europe Design and Culture Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Aamina Ganser
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook Design and Culture Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Ece Canlı
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities Design and Culture Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Jacob DeGeal
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The New Designer: Rejecting Myths, Embracing Change Design and Culture Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Victoria Gerson
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Looking into Mid-Century Modern Furniture Design in Turkey through Oral History Design and Culture Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Zeynep Tuna Ultav, Deniz Hasirci, Hande Atmaca
ABSTRACT Furniture design has traditionally taken second place to architecture in historiography, especially in Turkey. The consequent limited furniture-related academic publications, original mate...
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Correction Design and Culture Pub Date : 2024-02-06
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2024)
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Exploring Autonomy as a Design Principle: Theoretical Review of Autonomy and Case Studies of Service Design for Seniors Design and Culture Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Miso Kim
The number of senior citizens has increased rapidly over the last decade. However, cultural preconceptions that create social barriers preventing seniors from being adequately supported still preva...
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Immutable: Designing History Design and Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Dori Griffin
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Design and the Social Imagination Design and Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Belinda Wheeler
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Self Help Graphics at Fifty: A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking Design and Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Alexandria Canchola, Joshua Duttweiler
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Prototyping and Prefiguring through Law Reform: An Interview with Davina Cooper on the FLaG Sex and Gender Decertification Proposal Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Jilly Traganou
In an interview with Professor Davina Cooper, we discuss her research project “The Future of Legal Gender” (FlaG), a four-year project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK (2018–2...
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Experimental Design Atmospheres Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Guilherme Englert Corrêa Meyer, Cesar Navarro Rache
Despite experiment being quite a frequent term in design literature, there is a lack of comprehension about what the term experimental involves. Experimental design entails an openness that require...
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The Typographic Medium Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Setareh Ghoreishi
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Vital Media: Making, Design, and Expression for Human and Other Materials Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Maria Smith Bohannon
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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(a)way station Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Saraleah Fordyce
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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A Lived-in Shape Grammar: Parsing the Dwelling Activities in a Modernist Residential Building in Algiers Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Amina Rezoug, Mine Özkar
Residents of a building transform it over time and play crucial roles in making its life cycles sustainable. Introducing formal methods to study the impact of residents’ modifications in existing s...
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Harmonizing Bilingual Layouts: A Proposal of Latin–Arabic Typographic Classifications Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Randa Abdel Baki
Under the influence of globalization and multinational communication, the English language has become the steering script utilized in visual design. It has displaced other local languages and scrip...
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Designing The Authority: Dams, High Modernity, and Colonial Temporal Containment Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Zane Porterfield
Abstract The Tennessee Valley Authority’s dams are the culmination of a high modern design ideology, spatio-temporal land-use imaginary, and geography of containment. Many hydroelectric dams were erected in the 700-mile watershed. The energy fueled the manufacture of bombers, missiles, and the atomic bomb. The Authority had unprecedentedly broad purview, from constructing fertilizer factories, coal-fired
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Designing against Infrastructures of Harm: Introduction Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Shana Agid, Paula Austin
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2023)
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Numbering and Boat IDs: The Dehumanizing Use of ID Numbers in Australia’s Border Regime Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Luke Bacon, Arif Hussein
Abstract The practice of identifying people by ID numbers rather than their names, which the authors term here “numbering,” has been extensively recorded in carceral and bordering institutions. While the argument for using identification numbers (ID numbers) is that they enable the reliable mapping between a person and designated institutional artifacts, according to people who have been subjected
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(In)Visible Participants Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Chiara Del Gaudio
Abstract What should we understand about designing against infrastructures of oppression and marginalization? Research articles and social technologies produced by our design community have focused on procedures for action. Through this technicist approach, we have often disregarded the experiences of the participants of this type of design process, excluding their voices from institutionalized design
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Pushing Back the Walls: The Politics of Maneuver in Women’s Drug Rehabilitation Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot
ABSTRACT This article uses participant-observation research from the women’s floor of a residential drug-treatment program in Queens, New York City, to explore how rehabilitative institutions instantiate and extend carceral geographies, practices, and design, despite their asserted “alternative to incarceration” status. Focusing on two aspects of rehabilitation architecture – routinization/orderliness
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Designing the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Assessment in the New York City Jails: A Visual Abolitionist Resistance to Data Infrastructures of Harm Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Ariel Ludwig
Abstract The purpose of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Intake Questionnaire is purportedly to evaluate the “risk of victimization” and “risk of abusiveness” for each incarcerated person in the New York City jails. Corrections officers completed it during the intake process through a blend of observations, records searches, and documentation of the incarcerated person’s responses. This visual
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Double Time Pictures of the Arizona State Prison at Florence Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Ashley Hunt
Abstract This visual essay is drawn from Double Time, one of a series of three documentary projects on the theme of what might come after a prison is shuttered. Made partly in dialog with ongoing abolitionist organizing by Mass Liberation in South Phoenix, Double Time focuses on Arizona’s origins as a state, at the intersection of the Civil War and the echoes of the Haitian Revolution, as the War’s
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W.E.B. Du Bois and Designs for Abolition Democracy Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Matthew DelSesto
Abstract Scholars and activists have reintroduced the notion of abolition to public consciousness in recent decades, but it has roots in the activist scholarship and practice of W.E.B. Du Bois on “abolition democracy.” Design has not often been seen in relationship to this tradition, in part because designers contribute to making the very systems, sites, materials, or mechanisms that abolitionist-oriented
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Geographies, Systems, Spaces, and Pictures: Scholars and Practitioners on Designing Against Infrastructures of Harm Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Melissa Burch, Nicole Burrowes, Marisol LeBron, Amaka Okechukwu, Jennifer Rittner, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, edited by Paula Austin, Shana Agid
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2023)
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One Million Experiments Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Interrupting Criminalization, Project NIA, and AirGo
Abstract One Million Experiments is a collection and podcast from Interrupting Criminalization and Project NIA exploring snapshots of community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe. In this edited transcript from the first episode of the podcast, Mariame Kaba and Eva Nagao introduce the idea of experiments as everyday structures, practices, and relationships that can build
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The Infrastructure of a Local Weaving Practice: Community Relationships for a Participatory Capacity Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Gizem Öz, Şebnem Timur
The women in Karşıyaka village in Turkey weave rugs and bags together in the streets to contribute to the shared social convention of preparing dowries. From assembling looms to distributing woven ...
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Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Mari Lending
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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“It’s like the Wild West”: User Experience (UX) Designers on Ethics and Privacy in Aotearoa New Zealand Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Alex Beattie, Cherie Lacey, Catherine Caudwell
The degree to which User Experience (UX) designers unfairly steer users’ behavior through the use of “dark patterns” is a topical and contentious issue. Scholarship has largely assumed that designe...
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Zenia Malmer
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2024)
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Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Jen Christiansen
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Big Data, Big Design: Why Designers Should Care about Artificial Intelligence Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Nathan Butters
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2024)
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Un/Designing the Borderline: Walls, Bodies, and Creative Resistance Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Miriam Oesterreich
ABSTRACT Far more than simply a geographical line, the Mexico–US border is a space wherein aesthetic processes are negotiated, a performative space that attracts and spurs a critical and creative i...
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Un/Making the Plastic Straw: Designerly Inquiries into Disposability Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Kristina Lindström, Åsa Ståhl
This article proposes un/making as a designerly response to urgent environmental issues. By focusing on the simultaneous constructive and destructive aspects of design, this effort attempts to chal...
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Designing “Down to Earth.” Lessons Learned from Transformative Social Innovation Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Virginia Tassinari, Ezio Manzini
ABSTRACT The consequences of anthropocentric ways of thinking, designing, producing, and consuming are becoming painfully clear. Moving from this observation, several designers have become aware th...
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Editorial Design and Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Barbara Adams, Jilly Traganou, Mahmoud Keshavarz
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023)
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Matri-Archive, Creativity, and Beadwork: Toward an Inclusive Design Process Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Khaya Mchunu
This article focuses on the work of Thuli Princess Sebenzise Khoza, one of over 350 bead artists from a community-based arts and crafts project called Woza Moya, which is located in Hillcrest, KwaZ...
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Gendered Interactions Mediated by Design: Sexual Harassment on Public Transport Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Pınar Kaygan, Harun Kaygan, Asuman Özgür Keysan
This paper explores the gendered interactions that are mediated by designed products in actual use contexts. Our case is vehicle design for public transportation, a product category that is, from t...
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Caps Lock: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design and How to Escape from It Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Elaine Lopez
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2024)
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Printing Utopia: The Domain of the 3D Printer in the Making of Commons-Based Futures Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Merle Kathleen Ibach
ABSTRACT The 3D printer is a “projection screen” for the eco-social maker movement. It signifies a desire for networked collaboration, ecological and social participation, political empowerment, an...
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Research for Designers: A Guide to Methods and Practice Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-15 María del Mar Navarro
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023)
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Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Virginia Patterson
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023)
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Latour for Architects Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Robert A. Beauregard
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023)
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“Pirate Care Syllabus,” https://syllabus.pirate.care/ Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Claire Elestwani
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023)
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Living with Scents Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Saraleah Fordyce
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023)
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Design for the Speculative Future as Cultural Intermediary: Case Study on Chinese Weddings Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Fangzhou Dong, Xin Shen, Sara Sterling, Kenny K. N. Chow
ABSTRACT This paper explores the intersection of culture and design, examining the practice of design for the speculative future through the lens of cultural activities. Several domains of design, including product design and service design, are interpreted as cultural activities. Through mixed methods of research for, through, and about design, this paper proposes design for the speculative future
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“The Apple Way”: Foucault, Design, Consumerism, and the Shaping of Apple Subjects Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Melinda Gaughwin
Abstract The contribution Michel Foucault’s thoughts on power, in particular his ideas of subjectivity, freedom, and action, might have to the study of design’s ontological shaping of people is an emerging field of inquiry in the academy. Using a Foucauldian lens, this paper presents findings from semi-structured interviews with iPhone® users that speak to the ways Apple consumers are constituted into
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Planty Design Activism: Alliances with Seeds Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Alexandra Crosby, Ilaria Vanni
Abstract In cities across Australia and elsewhere, individuals and groups are experimenting with initiatives to link urban dwellers to local ecologies and strengthen the relation with and awareness of the environment. Community and street gardens, bush regeneration working bees, botanical and bird-watching expeditions in city parks and green areas are examples of this renewed interest in urban ecologies
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The Apotheosis of Steve Jobs: Belief and Desire in the Discourse of Design Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Stephen James Beckett
Abstract This article addresses design theory’s lack of engagement with psychoanalysis by examining how the Lacanian concept of the subject-supposed-to-know can be used to explore the area of desirability in design and bring to light certain regularities in the structures of design discourse. After a brief introduction, the subject-supposed-to-know and the transference relation are situated in the
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Special Forum: Designing a World of Many Centers Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Renata M. Leitão, Lesley-Ann Noel
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2022)
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Editorial Note Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-06
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2022)
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Designing on Western Arrarnta Country: The Ntaria Digital Drawings Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Nicola St John
Abstract Communication design in the Aboriginal community of Ntaria is situated and mediated by Western Arrarnta Country, which encourages a deeper exploration of the ways culture, knowledge, and identity are intertwined and shape ideas of what “design” might be from many centers. This visual narrative presents the outcomes of a communication design education program with Western Arrarnta young adults
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Designing New Futures for Design Education Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Lesley-Ann Noel
Abstract The design community has made several calls to re-imagine a design education for the future. Here I share a series of visual representations of guiding principles for design curricula that respond to these calls. These sketches were created over several years, exploring visually different objectives for design curricula. In doing the drawings, I wrestle with my own urge to break away from
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Before Design, More-than-Design: Elucidating “Ontological Design” Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Cameron Tonkinwise
Abstract In their new book, Graeber and Wengrow (2021) document the myriad societies and the amount of experimentation and change in social organization that is evident in the archaeological record. Although this controversial macrohistory does not directly speak to non-architectural design studies, I argue that the book should be read by designers, because it poses several challenges to fundamental
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Designing With or Against Institutions? Dilemmas of Participatory Design in Contested Cities Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Mayane Dore
ABSTRACT This article explores growing concerns behind the potential instrumentalization of participatory design within democratic institutions and city-making projects. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during a participatory urban redevelopment in Sydney, it analyzes the wider political, economic, and cultural dynamics shaping participatory design (PD) in contested urban spaces. As a result
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From Needs to Desire: Pluriversal Design as a Desire-Based Design Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Renata M. Leitão
Abstract This paper makes the case that a Pluriversal Social Design should be desire-based. It suggests that the creation of meaningful social change requires moving the focus of design processes from needs to agentic desires. The author understands agentic desire as the creative impulse towards human flourishing. In social design, the current emphasis on needs makes designers continually reproduce
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Living in Data Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Alec Barrett
Published in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2024)
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Another Use, Another Sociality: Some Reflections on Giorgio Agamben’s Radicalization of Use Design and Culture Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Giovanni Marmont
Abstract This article addresses Giorgio Agamben’s radicalization of the category of use, attempting to map out some of the key insights this yields, and seeking to establish the importance that this longstanding preoccupation of the Italian philosopher can have for design studies. It will be proposed that rethinking use with Agamben means rethinking the way we relate not only to artifacts but also