Design as Future-Making

Design 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 craft.

Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; CRAFTING CAPACITIES; Thinking Differently about Life: Design, Biomedicine, and "Negative Capability"; Unmapping; Fashion Hacking; Digital Crafting and the Challenge to Material Practices; Petrified Curtains, Animate Architextiles; SHIFTING GEOGRAPHIES; Urban Ecologies: Quatre systèmes de conception pour la fabrication de "la Cité"; Architecture of Informality; The Trans/Local Geography of Olympic Dissent: Activism, Design, Affect; Garments as Agents of Change: Lucia Cuba.

Returning Duchamp's Urinal to the Bathroom? On the Reconnection of Artistic Experimentation, Social Responsibility, and Institutional TransformationSze Tsung Leong and Susan Yelavich Interview; UP-ENDING SYSTEMS; Reasons to Be Cheerful, 1, 2, 3 . . .* (Or Why the Artificial May Yet Save Us); Design Away; Pace Layers; Forms of Space and Time; "When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war." Systemic Complexity and the Irregularities of Scale; Afterword: The Designer and the Designed; Endnotes; Bibliography; Contributor Biographies; Index.