Design and democracy : activist thoughts and practical examples for sociopolitical empowerment / edited by Maziar Rezai and Michael Erlhoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rezai, Maziar, Author.

Contributor:

Rezai, Maziar, editor.

Erlhoff, Michael, editor.

Series:

Board of International Research in Design (Series)

Board of International Research in Design

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--Social aspects.

Design.

Design--Political aspects.

Arts and society.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Activist thoughts and practical examples for sociopolitical empowerment

Place of Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Das Design mischt sich inzwischen in alle gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhänge ein und wird deshalb sowohl von politischer Macht als auch von deren Kritik intensiv genutzt. Beide Funktionen werden in diesem Buch präzise und ausführlich dargestellt – einschließlich deren unausweichlicher Verknüpfung. Autorinnen und Autoren aus verschiedenen Ländern stellen bislang nicht bekannte und innovative Beispiele demokratischer Aktivitäten durch das Design dar. Diese Publikation richtet sich deshalb nicht nur an Fachleute des Designs, sondern auch an ein allgemeines Publikum in allen Ländern. Autoren: Tom Bieling, Friedrich von Borries, Eray Çaylı, Carl DiSalvo, Michael Erlhoff, Saskia Hebert, Wolfgang Jonas, Ramia Mazé, Amanda Meng, Agustin Pereyra Decara, Laura Popplow, Maziar Rezai, The 27e Région, Andreas Unteidig.

Design affects all social contexts and is therefore intensively instrumentalized both by the politically powerful and their critics. Both functions of design, and their inevitable combination, are presented in this book in precise detail. Authors from various countries present previously unknown and innovative examples of democratic activities conducted through design. This publication is therefore aimed not only at design professionals but also at the general public of all countries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Foreword BIRD

Introduction Underneath the Pavement

Acknowledgments

1 Design (Govern)mentalities: Implications of Design and/as Governance in Cape Town

2 Design for Policy: Looking for the Next Step Design for Policy: The Time of Maturity

3 Democracy by Design

4 Democracy by Making – A Failed Rendezvous of Design and Pragmatism?

5 Designing Democracy or Muddling Through? – A Cautious Plea for Reflection and Moral Disarmament in Social/Transformative Design

6 Design and the Politics of the Everyday

7 Desocracy – Contradictions and Possibilities within and between Democracy and Design

8 How to Act?

9 Office for Design of Democracy – Conclusions from a Field Trip

10 Agonistic Events to Remember

11 Design Activism, Democracy, and the Crisis of Social Networks

12 Democracy Under Construction, Construction as Regime: Design, Time, and Imaginaries of Publicness in mid-2010s’ Turkey

The Authors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

print version: Design and democracy

ISBN:

3-0356-2283-3

OCLC:

1249473726