DISCURSIVE DESIGN. CRITICAL, SPECULATIVE, AND ALTERNATIVE THINGS

It improves our buildings, medical equipment, clothing, and kitchen utensils, among other objects. But what if design could also imp rove societal problems by prompting positive ideological change? B. and S. Tharp survey recent critical design practices and propose a new, more inclusive field of socially minded practice: discursive design. While many consider good design to be unobtrusive, intu itive, invisible, and undemanding intellectually, discursive design instead targets the intellect, prompting self-reflection and ign iting th...[Read more]