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Critical Fabulations: Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design

Critical Fabulations: Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design

Paperback

Series: Design Thinking, Design Theory

Technology & EngineeringGeneral ComputersGeneral Design

ISBN10: 0262542684
ISBN13: 9780262542685
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Dec 29 2020
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.

In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally situated, responsive and responsible. Challenging the field's dominant paradigms and reinterpreting its history, Rosner wants to change the way we historicize the practice, reworking it from the inside. Focusing on the development of computational systems, she takes on powerful narratives of innovation and technology shaped by the professional expertise that has become integral to the field's mounting status within the new industrial economy. To do so, she intervenes in legacies of design, expanding what is considered design to include long-silenced narratives of practice, and enhancing existing design methodologies based on these rediscovered inheritances. Drawing on discourses of feminist technoscience, she examines craftwork's contributions to computing innovation--how craftwork becomes hardware manufacturing, and how hardware manufacturing becomes craftwork.

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