design and its political nature: reframing design context
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Christopher Arnold - Associate ProfessorAuburn University (USA), Industrial and Graphic Design
Industrial Designers Society of America Education Symposium - Boston 2012
Design and Its Political Nature Reframing Design Context
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“My policy colleagues say they went into politics because they wanted to challenge the status quo and make things better for ordinary people. That's certainly why I went into design. So maybe design is more political than you think.” - Jennie Winhall (2006)
design in transitionfrom craft to facilitation
the changing face of designchanging relationships
Richard Buchanan, “Branzi’s Dilemma: Design in Contemporary Culture”, Design Issues, Spring 1998
NextD“Design 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0: The Rise of Visual SenseMaking”, March 2009
Spiritual
Cultural
Systems
Political & Legal
Environmental
MaterialCraftsmanship
Function
Technique
Economy
Aesthetics
SocialLinguistic
Science
MP Ranjan, “Hand - Head - Heart: Ethics in Design”, 2009
1st OrderForm & Structure
2nd OrderFunction & Feeling
3rd OrderValue, Meaning, Purpose
“The reason good design is hard to come by is that its creation demands a high degree of emotional and intellectual maturity in the designer, and such people are not found too often.”
George NelsonProblems of Design, 1957
“Earlier generations solved this problem by using many hands and minds over periods of centuries, as in the case of the axe, or the teacup.”
George NelsonProblems of Design, 1957
“The ‘designer’ then was not an individual, but an entire social process of trial, selection, and rejection.”
George NelsonProblems of Design, 1957
“Expert” “User Centered” I know I found out
“Participatory” “Co-Creation” we discovered we explored
with forvs
open to interpretationrecent discourse
“We cannot afford to be passive anymore... As designers, we could use our particular talents and skills to encourage others to wake up and participate as well.” - Katherine McCoy (2003)
“Design gives material form and directionality to the ideological embodiment of a particular politics.” - Tony Fry (2010)
Langdon Winner (1986) Bernward Joerges (1999)
“In the !rst decade of the 21st century, however, we are experiencing two important shifts: !rstly, in where design skills are being applied, and secondly, in who is actually doing the designing.” - Burns, et.al. (2006)
“I am here to entreat you to use your money, your status and your education to travel in Latin America. Come to look, come to climb our mountains, to enjoy our "owers. Come to study. But do not come to help.” - Ivan Illich (1968) ‘To Hell with Good Intentions’
Design PoliticsComplexityDisciplinesQuestionsLanguage
Change
In Education
Question based on issuesBlur lines between disciplinesFacilitation and engagement
Live and breathe context
“What is important is using one’s talent, intellect, and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.” - Sambo Mockbee
Christopher Arnoldemail : [email protected] : @cjarnold
Associate Professor, Auburn University, USADepartment of Industrial and Graphic Design
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