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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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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