By positioning designers and their practices at the center of design
studies, _Designing Knowledge_ merges theory and practice to highlight
how knowledge creation can contribute to an expanded and more
inclusive design practice. Bringing together a rich variety of
perspectives, methods and approaches, and by exploring and critiquing
current issues in design studies, this book encourages designers to
reflect on their work in a new light.
Design studies practice is a material and tangible focus on knowledge
production and mobilization in the field of design. Throughout 15
chapters featuring a wide range of case studies, design practitioners
and theorists address how they produce and mobilize knowledge about
design through their practice. Chapters explore how to dismantle the
colonial structures of modernist design and depart from the privileged
spaces of art historical concepts in design history. They address
tensions between traditional Indigenous design and contemporary design
practice, discuss how to authentically integrate personhood into
practice and explore topics such as designing wellbeing, developing
communities of care, informed accountability and principles of the
ecocene. They also analyse languages and typographic representations
and investigate the nature of the graphic and typographic translation
of literary texts, focusing on the writing of Argentinian writer Jorge
Luis Borges as a case study.
This book elevates the voices of designers and their work and offers
insights to professional designers as well as students on how to use
these contributions when working on future projects. By highlighting
the awareness of designers throughout their practice, this book will
inspire others to reflect on their work and share their own knowledge
for the benefit of the field of design.
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Emerging Perspectives in Design Studies Practices
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781350319851
Publisert
2023
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter