Design and CulturePub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2023.2213094
S. Agid, P. Austin
{"title":"Designing against Infrastructures of Harm: Introduction","authors":"S. Agid, P. Austin","doi":"10.1080/17547075.2023.2213094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2023.2213094","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue has a kind of origin story, even if we don’t really believe in those, per se. In 2014, as a faculty member at Parsons School of Design/The New School, I (Shana) proposed a course for the University’s shared undergraduate curriculum with an extraordinarily long title: Worldmaking: Design and Designing in Social and Political Contexts. These classes bring together students from across most of The New School’s undergraduate programs, including the art, design, and business majors at Parsons; the liberal arts majors at Eugene Lang; and the jazz and drama majors at the College of Performing Arts. The idea for the class had grown from my experiences as a community organizer, my still-new practice teaching a service design studio at Parsons, and an article I’d written – for this journal (2012) – that was my first attempt to understand questions that had emerged at this intersection and wouldn’t let me go: What happens in the process of designing things (systems, services, spaces, objects, images) that encourages professional designers – and design students – to Shana Agid, Parsons School of Design (The New School). agids@newschool.edu Paula Austin, Boston University. pcaustin@bu.edu","PeriodicalId":44307,"journal":{"name":"Design and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46130230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design and CulturePub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2023.2224152
Ashley Hunt
{"title":"Double Time Pictures of the Arizona State Prison at Florence","authors":"Ashley Hunt","doi":"10.1080/17547075.2023.2224152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2023.2224152","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This visual essay is drawn from Double Time, one of a series of three documentary projects on the theme of what might come after a prison is shuttered. Made partly in dialog with ongoing abolitionist organizing by Mass Liberation in South Phoenix, Double Time focuses on Arizona’s origins as a state, at the intersection of the Civil War and the echoes of the Haitian Revolution, as the War’s twin capacities of war-making and image-making pushed the US’ imperial expansion westward.","PeriodicalId":44307,"journal":{"name":"Design and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41523725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design and CulturePub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2023.2224158
{"title":"One Million Experiments","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/17547075.2023.2224158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2023.2224158","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract One Million Experiments is a collection and podcast from Interrupting Criminalization and Project NIA exploring snapshots of community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe. In this edited transcript from the first episode of the podcast, Mariame Kaba and Eva Nagao introduce the idea of experiments as everyday structures, practices, and relationships that can build our knowledge and capacity to address and engage harm and safety outside systems of the prison industrial complex (PIC).","PeriodicalId":44307,"journal":{"name":"Design and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46931998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design and CulturePub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2023.2216105
Melissa Burch, Nicole A. Burrowes, Marisol LeBrón, Amaka Okechukwu, Jennifer Rittner, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, P. Austin, S. Agid
{"title":"Geographies, Systems, Spaces, and Pictures: Scholars and Practitioners on Designing Against Infrastructures of Harm","authors":"Melissa Burch, Nicole A. Burrowes, Marisol LeBrón, Amaka Okechukwu, Jennifer Rittner, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, P. Austin, S. Agid","doi":"10.1080/17547075.2023.2216105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2023.2216105","url":null,"abstract":"For this roundtable discussion, we were excited to have an opportunity to bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of areas to talk about the themes of this special issue of Design and Culture. We were especially interested in thinking about what we might learn from the interplay of history and design practices – whether formal or informal – specifically in relation to sites of confinement. What might happen, we wondered, if the conversations in the issue Melissa Burch mlburch@umich.edu","PeriodicalId":44307,"journal":{"name":"Design and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60318495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design and CulturePub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2023.2213066
Luke Bacon, Arif Hussein
{"title":"Numbering and Boat IDs: The Dehumanizing Use of ID Numbers in Australia’s Border Regime","authors":"Luke Bacon, Arif Hussein","doi":"10.1080/17547075.2023.2213066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2023.2213066","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The practice of identifying people by ID numbers rather than their names, which the authors term here “numbering,” has been extensively recorded in carceral and bordering institutions. While the argument for using identification numbers (ID numbers) is that they enable the reliable mapping between a person and designated institutional artifacts, according to people who have been subjected to numbering, its effect is to dehumanize, erasing individuals’ identities so that they might be more effectively abused as objects. To explore these logics, our article provides a critical reading of Boat IDs in Australia’s notorious border regime based on the first-hand accounts of people subjected to numbering. We apply a ‘technology-in-practice’ lens to analyze ID numbers as biopolitical apparatuses of carceral recognition and erasure that work to materialize power relations of domination and subjugation.","PeriodicalId":44307,"journal":{"name":"Design and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46709648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design and CulturePub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2023.2213060
Chiara Del Gaudio
{"title":"(In)Visible Participants","authors":"Chiara Del Gaudio","doi":"10.1080/17547075.2023.2213060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2023.2213060","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract What should we understand about designing against infrastructures of oppression and marginalization? Research articles and social technologies produced by our design community have focused on procedures for action. Through this technicist approach, we have often disregarded the experiences of the participants of this type of design process, excluding their voices from institutionalized design knowledge, and thus replicating their invisibility. To overcome this, it is necessary to understand what characterizes people’s experiences and drives their participation, how these processes and practices interweave with their lives, and to bring their voices to the core of our research outcomes. These reflections emerge out of interviews with the participants of a design project in a Brazilian favela. The need for a more complex and multilayered perspective for design processes against infrastructures of oppression and marginalization emerges, together with the understanding of desire and affection, as critical factors in the process of unmaking them.","PeriodicalId":44307,"journal":{"name":"Design and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48346625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design and CulturePub Date : 2023-04-24DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2023.2188545
Miriam Oesterreich
{"title":"Un/Designing the Borderline: Walls, Bodies, and Creative Resistance","authors":"Miriam Oesterreich","doi":"10.1080/17547075.2023.2188545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2023.2188545","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Far more than simply a geographical line, the Mexico–US border is a space wherein aesthetic processes are negotiated, a performative space that attracts and spurs a critical and creative imagination. The essay examines the border as a location of design from various perspectives. Firstly, the real-existing border and its recent installations and installation proposals will be considered, before the attention will be turned to conceptual designs which, understood as examples of artistic practice, broach the issue of such facilities and seek to subvert them through ideas. Contemporary art and design projects address the constructional character of the border and, in part, also deconstruct it, challenging stereotypical ascriptions and thus turning the rigid fixations brittle and friable, making the border porous. Design puts the imaginary into play, altering the perception of boundaries and what it means to shift and transgress them.","PeriodicalId":44307,"journal":{"name":"Design and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41973363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design and CulturePub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2023.2187080
Kristina Lindström, Åsa Ståhl
{"title":"Un/Making the Plastic Straw: Designerly Inquiries into Disposability","authors":"Kristina Lindström, Åsa Ståhl","doi":"10.1080/17547075.2023.2187080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2023.2187080","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article proposes un/making as a designerly response to urgent environmental issues. By focusing on the simultaneous constructive and destructive aspects of design, this effort attempts to challenge design’s dominant focus on making new things. The implications and potentialities of un/making are explored through a designerly inquiry into ongoing and emerging attempts to ban the plastic straw. Based on this inquiry, the article proposes an approach to un/making that is driven by speculative, what if questions, informed by the history of the plastic straw: from coming into being to becoming preferable and now emerging as a matter of concern. Through a series of speculative design artifacts, the authors articulate matters at stake in the un/making of the plastic straw. They also show how these matters are a stake in the un/making of disposability as part of a preferable future. Rather than proposing one preferable future, the article highlights the frictions that emerge in un/making.","PeriodicalId":44307,"journal":{"name":"Design and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43691612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design and CulturePub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2023.2180904
Virginia Tassinari, E. Manzini
{"title":"Designing “Down to Earth.” Lessons Learned from Transformative Social Innovation","authors":"Virginia Tassinari, E. Manzini","doi":"10.1080/17547075.2023.2180904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2023.2180904","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44307,"journal":{"name":"Design and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45508853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design and CulturePub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2141159
P. Kaygan, Harun Kaygan, Asuman Özgür Keysan
{"title":"Gendered Interactions Mediated by Design: Sexual Harassment on Public Transport","authors":"P. Kaygan, Harun Kaygan, Asuman Özgür Keysan","doi":"10.1080/17547075.2022.2141159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2022.2141159","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper explores the gendered interactions that are mediated by designed products in actual use contexts. Our case is vehicle design for public transportation, a product category that is, from the outset, relatively gender-neutral when compared to explicitly gender-segregated categories such as household electronics, cars, and toys, even if public transit users are more often women than men. The empirical basis of research comes from interviews with women passengers. Our analysis demonstrates that seemingly gender-neutral designs can be merely gender-blind in that they have significant impact in the gendered experiences of its users, which includes, in this case, being exposed to or feeling at risk of sexual harassment and assault in public transportation as a woman. Therefore, feminist design interventions into mobility environments can provide immediate practical solutions that would complement policy and lawmaking efforts that are necessary to ensure safety for women on public transport.","PeriodicalId":44307,"journal":{"name":"Design and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42630342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}