Fry, TonyDilnot, Clive
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (London, 2015) (eng) English9781474245890Design, history, futuresUnknownINDUSTRIAL DESIGN; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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.
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Summary / review / table of contents
Preface, Pre-face Essential Reading --
Essay 1: Wither Design/Whether History / Tony Fry --
Introduction --
1. Rememberings & Dismemberings --
2. Another History, Another Designing --
3. Design in the Maelstrom of Time Book --
Essay 2: History, Design, Futures : Contending with What We Have Made / Clive Dilnot --
1. Our History, Our Unhappiness --
2.The Artificial and What It Opens Towards --
3. Acting in Regard to History --
Essay 3: And So to Another Setting ... / Susan C. Stewart --
1. On Care and Education --
Index