Author Unknown Additional authorCaccavale, Elio. Publisher Bloomsbury (New York, 2014) Language(eng) English ISBN9781474293907 SeriesUnknown EditionUnknown SubjectDESIGN-SOCIAL ASPECTS; NoteUnknown AbstractDesign as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately, the choices made by designers are understood here as choices about the kind of world we want to live in. Design as Future-Making locates design in a space of creative and critical reflection, examining the expanding nature of practice in fields such as biomedicine, sustainability, digital crafting, fashion, architecture, urbanism, and design activism. The authors contextualize design and its affects within issues of social justice, environmental health, political agency, education, and the right to pleasure and play. Collectively, they make the ca

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