1st Edition

Design for the Unthinkable World Strange Ecology and Unwelcome Change

Edited By Craig Bremner, Paul A. Rodgers, Giovanni Innella Copyright 2024
192 Pages 47 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 47 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 47 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited book contests that if design’s raison d'être is to make things better, then the object of design has always been, remains and can only be a changed world and our relationship to it – the world-for-us. Each chapter was written by carefully selected researchers and practitioners who span geographical, disciplinary, and methodological boundaries in their work. Contributors skilfully... Read more

Foreword Introductory Words  1. From Forests to Futures: Making and Mapping for Strange Ecologies  2. The Institute of Speculation: Radical Futures & Unthinkable Worlds  3. A Not Too Comfortable Future  4. Cautionary Tales: Speculative Design as Moral Fable  5. The Polygenetic Disorder  6. Not in My Backyard: Supply Chain Experimentation in Critical Design and Craft  7. Be-ing in Place on Unceded Land: Considerations for the Designer Practicing Design on Lands where Sovereignty has Never been Ceded  8. Weird Planet, Weirindg Design  9. Dark Objects: A Theology of the Unseen and the Everyday  10. Hyperobject Design  11. Feral Design

Biography

Craig Bremner is Professor of Design at Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Paul A. Rodgers is Professor of Design at the University of Strathclyde, Department of Design Manufacturing & Engineering Management, Scotland.

Giovanni Innella is Associate Professor of Design at VCUarts, Qatar.