designing designing is one of the most extraordinary books on design ever written. First published in 1984 and reprinted with this title and cover in 1991, the book was the product of ten years of auto-critique, reflection and experimentation on writing on designing. Offering a savage auto-critique of his own work on “methods”, as well as of the wider methods and ends of advanced industrial societies as a whole, this book challenges the traditional product- and progress- orientated focus on design by insisting that the world now coming into being requires designing to be understood as ‘a response to the whole of life.’ But designing designing is also unique in modern design thinking in its exploration of what writing on designing might be. Combining essays, interviews, reflections, performances, plays, poems, chance procedures, photographs, collages and quotes, Jones experiments with both form and content in an attempt to make a book which ‘is not simply about designing but is instead itself an instance of the ideas and processes explored within it.’
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List of Illustrations Introduction to the revised edition by Clive Dilnot Foreword by C. Thomas Mitchell Author's Note Preface to the 1984 edition Acknowledgements Introductory Essay: The Future of Breathing 1. A Thought Revolved Love, hate and architecture How my thoughts about design methods have changed during the years Now we are numerous Beyond rationalism Principles in design 2. The World Without Imagination St Ives by chance Composing by chance Some reflection on chance Designing designing 3. It Must Give Pleasure Opus one, number two "... in the dimension of Time" Continuous design and redesign Things 4. Things of August Is designing a response to the whole of life? 35 wishes Voices at the conference conference The design of modern life Utopia and Numeroso Afterword by John Thackara Index
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Designing Designing is a particularly redemptive text ... not only because of the immense self-awareness and epistemic humility Jones demonstrates, but also because it explores in both its content and its form what else design and designing could be. In stark contrast to the predictable and stolid reification of design methods, principles, and practices today, this open-ended flexibility and responsiveness in design practice reflects in the structure of the book itself: a diverse collection of essays, personal reflections, anecdotes, conversations, interviews, and poetry.
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A reissue of John Chris Jones's classic work on design methodology, with a new introduction by Clive Dilnot.
Reissue of a foundational work of design thinking and methodology by J.C. Jones, with a new introduction by Clive Dilnot.
Expansion in practice and the global increase in numbers of those with design education or who study design has not brought with it increased understanding. On the contrary, despite the intelligence of many of those entering the field, reduced to the crudest understanding of vocation, depth of thought disappears; crises remain untouched; genuinely new practices and conceptions struggle to be comprehended in their implications. Radical Thinkers in Design, a moment of the larger project Designing in Dark Times, seeks in a small way to try to address this situation by bringing back into circulation, as aids to thinking and praxis, some key provocative texts in contemporary thinking on designing. As acting in the world descends ever deeper towards instrumentalism these books offer counter views. In what they open towards, what they explore and present, above all in what they anticipate, they point to the concrete possibilities, as well as to the necessity, of paradigm-shifts in design thinking and in our conceptions of what designing today can and should be. They offer approaches, concepts, modes of thinking and models of practice that can help not only in thinking how design can be re-thought and re-positioned in its internal momentum, but how it offers an integral mode and capacity of acting in the world. By showing how, at base, designing contains irreplaceable critical and affirmative moments, they point us towards ways of reversing some of the negative and destructive tendencies threatening to engulf the world.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350070677
Publisert
2021-02-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Vekt
700 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
440

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Biographical note

John Chris Jones was born in 1927, in Aberystwyth, Wales. Jones studied engineering at the University of Cambridge, and went on to work for AEI in Manchester, England. In 1962 he instigated an influential conference on design methods, which led to the formation of the Design Research Society which he chaired from 1971-73. In 2004 he was presented with the Society's Lifetime Achievement Award and from 1970-74 Jones was the first Professor of Design at The Open University, UK.