De-Signing Design

De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice throws new light on the terrain between theory and practice in transdisciplinary discourses of design and art. The editors, Elizabeth Grierson, Harriet Edquist, and Hélène Frichot, bring together diverse approaches to design theory, practice, and philosophy from leading scholars in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Themes include spatiality, difference, cultural aesthetics, and identity in the expanded field of place-making and being. The concept that design can be de-signed is presented as a way of exploring different approaches to an experimental and experiential thinking-doing that promises to further open up research possibilities in the fields of design and art thinking and practice. The book enacts a series of cartographic devices to articulate the spaces between theory and practice.

Mark Jackson is Professor of the History of Medicine at University of Exeter, UK. He has written extensively on the history of crime and medicine and is the author of over 20 books including New-Born Child Murder: Women, Illegitimacy and the Courts in Eighteenth-Century England (1996) and Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment 1550-2000 (ed., 2002).

Laurene Vaughan is Professor of Design in the School of Design at RMIT University, Australia. She is the editor of Practice-Based Design Research ((Bloomsbury, 2017) and Designing Cultures of Care (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Karen Burns is Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Chris L. Smith is Professor of Architectural Theory at The University of Sydney, Australia.

Neil Leach is an architect and theorist. He teaches at Florida International University, USA, the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Tongji University, China. He has also taught at many other leading schools of architecture, including the Architectural Association, UK and Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, USA; he is a member of the European Academy and has been a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow. He has published over 30 books on architecture and digital design, translated into six languages.