De-signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice

by Scott McQuire (Contribution by), Mark Jackson (Contribution by), Marsha Berry (Contribution by), Maria O'Connor (Contribution by), Laurene Vaughan (Contribution by)

Overview

De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice throws new light on the terrain between theory and practice in transdisciplinary discourses of design and art. The editors, Elizabeth Grierson, Harriet Edquist, and Hélène Frichot, bring together diverse approaches to design theory, practice, and philosophy from leading scholars in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Themes include spatiality, difference, cultural aesthetics, and identity in the expanded field of place-making and being. The concept that design can be de-signed is presented as a way of exploring different approaches to an experimental and experiential thinking-doing that promises to further open up research possibilities in the fields of design and art thinking and practice. The book enacts a series of cartographic devices to articulate the spaces between theory and practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739179123
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/07/2016
Series:	TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Born and reared in Ohio, Mark Jackson attended Ohio University on a 4-year Army ROTC scholarship. Jackson served with the 2nd ACR in Germany and the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, NC.
After the military, Jackson served in several professional positions with public sector corporations. Additionally, he is a leadership trainer and consultant primarily for the U.S. Government and Department of Defense. Jackson's 100+ training seminars unite historical case studies with textbook leadership methods and strategies.
In 2009, Jackson returned to the U.S. Army and served a tour of duty as a Combat Advisor Team Chief in Afghanistan. He earned the Bronze Star and the Combat Action Badge.
Jackson holds a Master's Degree of Arts in Leadership Development from Gonzaga University and is a member of Mensa. He had articles printed in The Washington Post, Reader's Digest and numerous other media outlets, as well as being featured on ABC and Fox News. He is the author of one book, Touched by Fire.

Laurene Vaughan is Professor of Design in the School of Design at RMIT University, Australia. She is the editor of Practice-Based Design Research ((Bloomsbury, 2017) and Designing Cultures of Care (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Karen Burns is Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Chris L. Smith is Professor of Architectural Theory at The University of Sydney, Australia.

Neil Leach is an architect and theorist. He teaches at Florida International University, USA, the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Tongji University, China. He has also taught at many other leading schools of architecture, including the Architectural Association, UK and Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, USA; he is a member of the European Academy and has been a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow. He has published over 30 books on architecture and digital design, translated into six languages.

Table of Contents

De-Signing the City: Interventions through Art, Elizabeth GriersonTowards De-Signing: Narrative, Networks and the Open Work, Scott McQuireDesignations, Mark JacksonSigns of Postmemory in Dresden: Restoring the Displaced, Marsha BerryPosed Solitude: Signing a Poetics of Community, Maria O’Connor24 Hours Noticing: Designing our Encounters with Place, Laurene Vaughan and Yoko AkamaRepresenting the City: Complementing Science and Technology with Art, William CartwrightEmbodied Encounters: The Photographic Seeds of Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr’s Ten Canoes, Linda DaleyMapping Modernity in “Marvellous Melbourne”: Ada Cambridge’s A Woman’s Friendship, Harriet EdquistMapping an Ethico-Aesthetics for Wet Biotechnological Architectures, Hélène FrichotDigital Organic Design: Architecture, the New Biology and the Knowledge Economy, Karen BurnsDe-Signing as Bio-technological Endosymbiosis, Stephen LooDesign, Second Life and the Hyper Real, Lisa DethridgeHopeful: Biology, Architectural Design and Philosophy, Chris L. SmithDesign and New Materialism, Neil Leach

Editorial Reviews

At a moment when the term “design” is used not only to designate acts of a designer — such as projecting the organizational, representational, technical, and material dimensions of an object, building, image or interface — but to reference any act of strategic or even managerial thinking, De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice offers welcome conceptual and discursive tools for thinking critically about the future. Demonstrating the complex relays between thinking and doing, or theory and practice, it marks out a variegated new ground upon which to operate beyond the purely instrumental.” —Felicity D. Scott, Columbia University

“De-signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice is a synthetic modernist handbook for de-signing design and for the city as design outcome. Its compelling narrative begins with Jacques Derrida’s provocative placement of the hyphen in the formation of the term “de-signing”. Thus equipped, we set off on a journey that leads from the production of the first atlas by Abraham Ortellus in 1570 all the way to the world of BwO (body-without-organs) and other entities “poised in potentiality”. Strategies and outcomes that once seemed out of the world of Superfictions now appear tantalizingly real.

This book will appeal to, will excite, and will inform artists, designers, architects, bio-engineers, narratologists, city planners, graduate students, and anyone with a keen sense of wonder about our future and how it might be “de-signed”.” —Peter Hill, Deakin University

From the Publisher

At a moment when the term “design” is used not only to designate acts of a designer — such as projecting the organizational, representational, technical, and material dimensions of an object, building, image or interface — but to reference any act of strategic or even managerial thinking, De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice offers welcome conceptual and discursive tools for thinking critically about the future. Demonstrating the complex relays between thinking and doing, or theory and practice, it marks out a variegated new ground upon which to operate beyond the purely instrumental.

Felicity D. Scott

De-signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice is a synthetic modernist handbook for de-signing design and for the city as design outcome. Its compelling narrative begins with Jacques Derrida’s provocative placement of the hyphen in the formation of the term “de-signing”. Thus equipped, we set off on a journey that leads from the production of the first atlas by Abraham Ortellus in 1570 all the way to the world of BwO (body-without-organs) and other entities “poised in potentiality”. Strategies and outcomes that once seemed out of the world of Superfictions now appear tantalizingly real.

This book will appeal to, will excite, and will inform artists, designers, architects, bio-engineers, narratologists, city planners, graduate students, and anyone with a keen sense of wonder about our future and how it might be “de-signed”.

Peter Hill