Tricky Design | The Ethics of Things

Lorraine Gamman (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 1474277187 / ISBN 13: 9781474277181

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2018

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Tricky Design | The Ethics of Things | Lorraine Gamman (u. a.) | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2018 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | EAN 9781474277181 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tricky Design | The Ethics of Things
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474277187
• ISBN 13: 9781474277181
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 161H x 18D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 534 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Tricky Design 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. These will include objects, both material and 'immaterial', systems with both local and global scope, and also different processes of designing.

This important new volume brings a fresh perspective to the complex nature of 'things', and makes a truly original contribution to debates in design ethics, design philosophy and material culture.

About the Author

Lorraine Gamman is Professor of Design, at Central Saint Martins (CSM) College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London (UAL), where she has taught design and contextual studies since 1989. She is also currently a Visiting Professor and Research Associate at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Australia. Gamman has published widely on visual culture and design, including co-authored academic books, articles and critical reviews. She now lives in Stoke Newington with her partner and daughter.