Not at Your Service. Manifestos for Design | Björn Franke, Hansuli Matter (eds.)
CHF 52.90
Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design brings together the broad spectrum of beliefs, subjects and practices of designers at Zurich University of the Arts. It offers different approaches and insights on the present-day role and impact of design. It is not conceived as a finished project, but as a fluid document of its time. Collaborative design, interaction within complex systems, attention economics, the ecological shift, visual literacy, gender-neutral design, «quick and dirty» design ethnography, social responsibility, the value of ugliness, death futures, immersive technologies, identity and crises, design as a transformative discipline – all of these topics are presented for debate with passion, conviction and professional expertise.
526 pages, Birkhäuser, 2021
ISBN 978-3-0356-2272-0
The project Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design brings together a wide range of voices in order to illustrate the ways in which design mutates, infects unfamiliar territories and sometimes turns into an empty word devoid of meaning, but also to show how it can open up innovative, socially relevant and cross-disciplinary fields for sustainability, technological innovation and aesthetic practices, and have a positive effect on society.
Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design bündelt die unterschiedlichsten Facetten an Überzeugungen, Themen und Praxen von Designerinnen und Designern an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Die Publikation bietet vielfältige Antworten auf die Frage, was Design heute sein und bewirken kann. Kollaboratives Design, Interaktion in komplexen Systemen, die Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit, Ökologischer Wandel, Visual Literacy, geschlechterneutrales Design, die schmutzige Praxis der Designethnografie, soziale Verantwortung, der Wert von Hässlichkeit, Death Futures, immersive Technologien, Identität und Krise, Design als Transformationsdisziplin – all dies sind Themen, die in diesem Lesebuch mit Leidenschaft, persönlicher Überzeugung und professioneller Expertise zur Debatte gestellt werden.
Kompakte Sammlung von diskursiven Texten zum Thema Design
Aktuelle Debatte über Design im Sinne eines relevanten Beitrags für die Gesellschaft
Beitrag aus dem akademischen Kontext von einer der führenden Hochschulen für Design
Not at Your Service. Manifestos for Design | Björn Franke, Hansuli Matter (eds.) [E-Book PDF]
Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design brings together the broad spectrum of beliefs, subjects and practices of designers at Zurich University of the Arts. It offers different approaches and insights on the present-day role and impact of design. It is not conceived as a finished project, but as a fluid document of its time. Collaborative design, interaction within complex systems, attention economics, the ecological shift, visual literacy, gender-neutral design, «quick and dirty» design ethnography, social responsibility, the value of ugliness, death futures, immersive technologies, identity and crises, design as a transformative discipline – all of these topics are presented for debate with passion, conviction and professional expertise.
526 pages (PDF), Birkhäuser, 2021
ISBN 978-3-0356-2275-1
Design Ethnography – Epistemology and Methodology | Francis Müller
CHF 43.90
This book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities.
Narrative Mechanics. Strategies and Meanings in Games and Real Life | Beat Suter, René Bauer, Mela Kocher (eds.)
CHF 51.50
What do stories in games have in common with political narratives?
This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and social life. They have »many faces«, displays and interfaces. They occur as texts, recipes, stories, dramas in three acts, movies, videos, tweets, journeys of heroes, but also as rewarding stories in games and as narratives in society – such as a career from rags to riches, the concept of modernity or market economy. Below their surface, however, narrative mechanics are a particular type of motivational design – of game mechanics.
Eigenlogik des Designs | Gerhard M. Buurman, Marc Rölli (Hg.)
CHF 48.00
Mit der in letzter Zeit rapide wachsenden Bedeutung des Designs für ökonomische und technische Entwicklungen verbinden sich zunehmend auch gesellschaftliche Fragestellungen von höchster Brisanz. Wie aber ist es möglich, diese Dimensionen des Designs – im Sinne eines «Social Designs» – zu erforschen und sichtbar zu machen? Die AutorInnen nehmen diese Frage zum Anlass, um die spezifischen Rationalitäten der im Design verwendeten Verfahren und Methoden zu beleuchten.