Designing Designing (Radical Thinking in Design): 3 (Radical Thinkers in Design)

John Chris Jones

ISBN 10: 1350071978 / ISBN 13: 9781350071971

Published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Designing Designing (Radical Thinking in Design): 3 (Radical Thinkers in Design)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350071978
• ISBN 13: 9781350071971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

designing designing is one of the most extraordinary books on design ever written. First published in 1984 and reprinted with this title and cover in 1991, the book was the product of ten years of auto-critique, reflection and experimentation on writing on designing.

Offering a savage auto-critique of his own work on “methods”, as well as of the wider methods and ends of advanced industrial societies as a whole, this book challenges the traditional product- and progress- orientated focus on design by insisting that the world now coming into being requires designing to be understood as 'a response to the whole of life.'

But designing designing is also unique in modern design thinking in its exploration of what writing on designing might be. Combining essays, interviews, reflections, performances, plays, poems, chance procedures, photographs, collages and quotes, Jones experiments with both form and content in an attempt to make a book which 'is not simply about designing but is instead itself an instance of the ideas and processes explored within it.'

About the Authors

Eduardo Staszowski is associate professor of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design, and Director of the Parsons DESIS Lab, New York, USA. He is the co-editor of the Designing in Dark Times series and of the book Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon (Bloomsbury 2020).

Clive Dilnot is professor of Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA. Recent publications include Ethics? Design? (2005) and the text for Chris Killip: Pirelli Work (2007).