Tricky design : the ethics of things / edited by Tom Fisher and Lorraine Gamman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fisher, Tom, 1958- editor.

Gamman, Lorraine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--Moral and ethical aspects.

Design.

Industrial design--Moral and ethical aspects.

Industrial design.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Ethics of things

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

"Tricky Things responds to the burgeoning of scholarly interest in the cultural meanings of objects, by addressing the moral complexity of certain designed objects and systems. The volume brings together leading international designers, scholars and critics to explore some of the ways in which the practice of design and its outcomes can have a dark side, even when the intention is to design for the public good. Considering a range of designed objects and relationships, including guns, eyewear, assisted suicide kits, anti-rape devices, passports and prisons, the contributors offer a view of design as both progressive and problematic, able to propose new material and human relationships, yet also constrained by social norms and ideology. This contradictory, tricky quality of design is explored in the editors' introduction, which positions the objects, systems, services and 'things' discussed in the book in relation to the idea of the trickster that occurs in anthropological literature, as well as in classical thought, discussing design interventions that have positive and negative ethical consequences"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Foreword - Clive Dilnot Introduction - Design's Tricky Ethics, Tom Fisher and Lorraine Gamman

Section One, Tricky Thinging

Chapter 1: Civilian and Military: Design Across an Ethical Horizon, Tom Fisher Chapter 2: Designers and Brokers of the Mobility Regime, Mahmoud Kesharvarz Chapter 3: Trickery in Design: Cooptation, Subversion and Politics Nidhi Srinavas & Eduardo Staszowski Chapter 4:

Guns and morality: Mediation, Agency and Responsibility, Tim Dant Chapter 5: The Magic that is Design, Cameron Tonkinwise

Section Two: Tricky Processes, Tricky Principles Chapter 6: Designer

Shapeshifter: A De-colonial Redirection for Speculative and Critical Design, Luiza Prado de O. Martins; Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira Chapter 7: Making 'Safety', Making Freedom: Design and Contested Futures, Shana Agid Chapter 8: The Nature of 'Obligation' in Doing Design with Communities: Participation, Politics and Care, Ann Light and Yoko Akama

Section Three: Tricky Policy Chapter 9: Designing Policy Objects: Designer as Anti-Hero, Lucy Kimbell

Chapter 10: Tricky like a Leprachaun - Navigating the Paradoxes of Public Service Innovation, Adam Thorpe

Chapter 11: Understanding Suicide and Assisted Dying - Why "Design for Death" is Tricky, Lorraine

Gamman & Pras Gunasekera

Chapter 12: The Quest for Purity, 'Clean' Design and a New Ethics of 'Dirty' Design, Jeremy Kidwell

Conclusion - Lorraine Gamman and Tom Fisher

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474277211

1474277217

9781474277204

1474277209

9781474277198

1474277195

OCLC:

1059124935