Metadesigning Designing in the Anthropocene

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-07102-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

Reihe: Design Research for Change

Long-sighted, radical and provocative, this book offers a foundational framework of concepts, principles and methods (exemplified with selected tools) to enable metadesigners to manage and reinvent their practices.

The book reminds readers that designers are, albeit unwittingly, helping to shape the Anthropocene. Despite their willingness to deliver greener products and services, designers find themselves part of an industry that has become the go-to catalyst for dividends and profit. If our species is to achieve the rehabilitation and metamorphosis, we may need to design at the level of paradigms, genres, lifestyles and currencies. This would mean making design more integrated, comprehensive, adaptive, transdisciplinary, self-reflexive and relational. The book, therefore, advocates a shift of emphasis from designing ‘sustainable’ products, services and systems towards cultivating synergies that will induce regenerative lifestyles.

The book will be of interest to managers, designers, scholars and educators from a wide range of backgrounds, including design research, design history, design studies and environmental studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wood, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword. The Unthinkable Practice of Designing

Clive Dilnot

Introduction. The Conditions of Design

John Wood

Part 1: Game Changing

1. Up Close and Personal

Mathilda Tham

2. Re-shaping Meaning & Value

Jordan Dalladay-Simpson

3. Languaging Design

Julia Lockheart

Part 2: The Idea of Metadesign

4. Design Science

Paul Taylor

5. A Framework for Metadesign

Caio Adorno Vassão

6. The Poetic Dimension of Metadesign

Elisa Giaccardi

Part 3: Relational Thinking

7. Creative Quartets

John Wood

8. Beyond Human-Centred Design

Hannah Jones

Part 4: Bodies of Knowledge

9. Embodying Ubuntu

Olu Taiwo

10. Organisational Consciousness

John Backwell & John Wood

Part 5: Making Metadesign Work

11. Facilitating ‘Team Consciousness’

Anette Lundebye

12. Post-Disciplinary Design

Lara Furniss

13. Optimizing Synergistic Performance in Design

Chuck Ware

Part 6: Beyond the Thinkable

14. Co-exploring the visual metaphors of the Dream

Julia Lockheart

15. Beyond Semiotics

Hyaesook Yang

16. Becoming Polyphibious

Živa Ljubec

Über Autor(innen)

John Wood is Emeritus Professor of Design at Goldsmiths University of London.