Utopias lost and futures-in-the-making: marginal notes on innovation, design and democracy

Abstract

the contemporary scandinavian collective designer some forty years of age or so norwegian of origin focusing on democracy and worker participation actively searching alternative futures through collaborative design things at the time when computers entered the shop floor threatening to deskill workers and tighten managerial control pioneered at “kongsberg weapon factory” (maybe not the most likely place for an experiment in democracy and participation)