In 2015 Kees Dorst published Frame Innovation and Ezio Manzini published Design, When Everybody Designs (both with MIT Press). I reviewed the two together1 because they seemed to me to represent a sign of the new maturity of “design in the expanded field”—that is, higher order designing undertaken to bring about social change, rather than simply to create artifacts for improving a consumer’s quality of life. However, “change by design” can drift away from being designerly. Design thinking and co-design, in their more pervasive forms in corporate or government innovation contexts, seem far removed from the material craft of designing. Dorst has largely stopped referring to design, preferring instead Creative Intelligence. And now Manzini has published The Politics of Everyday Life—a title without the word design in it, although the book is the first in the Designing in Dark Times series from Bloomsbury. If Design, When Everybody Designs provided a comprehensive account of the design theory behind Manzini’s significant work with the global Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability Network, The Politics of Everyday Life is an important complement, building a wider political philosophy for the previous work. The book also feels more personal. As Manzini notes, “each of the four chapters that make up the book starts with an observation of situations located within 20 kilometers from where I live” (x); and throughout are notes about people or works that Manzini sees as significant in his intellectual development: Edgar Morin, Michel Serres, André Leroi-Gourhan, Paulo Rosa, and Carlo Donolo. The political philosophy Manzini articulates is a sophisticated pragmatism, one that Manzini characterizes as bricolage— having a defined objective, but being open to using whatever is at hand to attain that outcome, “approximating... by reassembling pre-existing objects... [and] modifying their meaning,” a way of designing that Manzini asserts “is the most applicable for operating in a world where we have to accept the complexity, whether we like it or not” (50–51).

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Ezio Manzini 的日常政治（黑暗时代的设计），系列编辑。Clive Dilnot 和 Eduardo Staszowski，反式。作者：Rachel Anne Coad（伦敦：Bloomsbury，2019）。ISBN：9781350053649，136 页，无插图，平装，9.95 美元。（评论文章）

2015 年，Kees Dorst 发表了 Frame Innovation 和 Ezio Manzini 发表了 Design, When Everyone Designs（均与 MIT Press 合作）。我将这两者放在一起回顾 1，因为在我看来，它们代表了“扩展领域中的设计”新成熟的标志——也就是说，为带来社会变革而进行的更高阶设计，而不是简单地创造工件来改善消费者的生活质量。然而，“设计改变”可能会偏离设计。设计思维和协同设计，在企业或政府创新环境中以更普遍的形式出现，似乎与设计的物质工艺相去甚远。Dorst 在很大程度上不再提及设计，而是更喜欢创意智能。现在，曼齐尼出版了《日常生活的政治》——一个没有设计一词的标题，尽管这本书是 Bloomsbury 的“黑暗时代设计”系列的第一本书。如果“设计，当每个人都设计”提供了曼齐尼与全球社会创新和可持续发展网络设计的重要工作背后的设计理论的全面说明，那么日常生活的政治是一个重要的补充，为之前的工作建立了更广泛的政治哲学。这本书也感觉更个人化。正如曼齐尼所说，“构成本书的四章中的每一章都以对距我居住地 20 公里范围内的情况的观察开始”（x）；并且自始至终都是关于曼齐尼认为对他的智力发展具有重要意义的人物或作品的注释：埃德加·莫林、米歇尔·塞雷斯、安德烈·勒罗伊-古尔汉、保罗·罗莎和卡洛·多诺洛。