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Design and the Question of History (Design, Histories, Futures) by Tony Fry, Clive Dilnot, Susan Stewart, Bloomsbury is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Design and the Question of History (Design, Histories, Futures) about?

Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of worlds within which the political, ethical and historical character of human being is at stake, this text demands radically transformed notions of both design and history. Above all, the authors posit history as the generational site of the future. Blindness to history, it is suggested, blinds us both to possibility, and to the foreclosure of possibilities, enacted through our designing. The text is not a resolved, continuous work, presented through one voice. Rather, the three authors cut across each other, presenting readers with the task of disclosing, to themselves, the commonalities, repetitions and differences within the deployed arguments, issues, approaches and styles from which the text is constituted. This is a work of friendship, of solidarity in difference, an act of cultural politics. It invites the reader to take a position – it seeks engagement over agreement.

Who reads Design and the Question of History (Design, Histories, Futures)?

Author

Tony Fry, Clive Dilnot, Susan Stewart, Bloomsbury

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780857854766

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Design, Art, History