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The Graphic Design Reader, edited by Teal Triggs and Leslie Atzmon (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019). ISBN 9781472526472, illustrated, hardback ($135)/paperback ($48), 1,000 pages (Book Review) Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Arden Stern
Throughout the process of reading The Graphic Design Reader, an expansive and carefully assembled anthology from Teal Triggs and Leslie Atzmon, I wondered whether my linear approach was appropriate for the task of reviewing it. Anthologies are, after all, typically consulted piecemeal, so a sustained journey through 1,000 pages of material left a different impression of the field. In any case, I expect
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The Culture of Ambiguity: Ma in Japanese Culture and Design Movement Posters Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Hung Ky Nguyen
In a literal sense, the word ma (間) means “interval” or “gap.” With considerable enthusiasm, since the early 1960s, Japanese thinkers and design practitioners have developed ma into an abstract and spiritual concept. With the use of interpretive research and ethnographic methods, this article explores how ma, commonly understood as ambiguity, has been deeply appreciated in Japanese culture. To find
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From Margin to Institution: Design as a Marketplace for Action in Organizations Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Kipum Lee
To resolve the problem of design marginalization in organizations, we introduce the concept of institution and an Aristotelian framework for human activity to identify an action-based approach for design in complex systems. When design is positioned solely as an activity of production—despite the success of human-centered products—it misses an opportunity to influence institutions, or the human-side
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Service is Not Perishable: Nurturing Ongoing Participation with Conceptual Models Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Miso Kim
This article explores the nature of conceptual models for designing service participation. Conceptual models are both a representation and a hypothesis, dialectically creating conditions of participation. I first study the nature of a conceptual model and then explore the four arts with focus on the notion of form. Each art reveals a mode of thought regarding the form of the participatory whole: grammatical
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Exploring the Nuances of Designing (with/for) Artificial Intelligence Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Niya Stoimenova, Rebecca Price
A fundamental shift in the way society operates is approaching driven by advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Yet, there is a comparative lack of discourse across the design discipline regarding this topic. While there are fragments of methodological readiness for designing (with/for) AI, the nuances of such need to be further explored. The aim of this article is to shed light on
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Introduction Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Bruce Brown, Richard Buchanan, Carl DiSalvo, Dennis Doordan, Kipum Lee, Ramia Mazé
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche
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Technology and More-Than-Human Design Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Elisa Giaccardi, Johan Redström
In a more-than-human world of design and designing, outcomes and experiences are the result of a sustained yet more uncertain interplay between people and networked computational things—as well as directly between these things in themselves. Developing new design methodologies and tools to unlock the potentials of technologies such as Big Data, the Internet of Things, Machine Learning, and Artificial
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Violent Compassions: Humanitarian Design and the Politics of Borders Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Mahmoud Keshavarz
Based on a critical analysis of the two notions of “crisis” and “compassion,” this article outlines and problematizes the increasing engagement of design practices with refugees and vulnerable communities on the move. By contextualizing different historical and contemporary humanitarian design examples in an analysis of current European border politics, the article questions the ways in which designing
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The Rapid Embrace of Legal Design and the Use of Co-Design to Avoid Enshrining Systemic Bias Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Dan Jackson, Miso Kim, Jules Rochielle Sievert
After decades of delay, the U.S. legal profession is finally embracing digital technology in the delivery of civil justice. Much more rapidly, design methods are being embraced by legal institutions as a means reforming everything from commercial legal product lines to civil court forms. What explains the rapid embrace of legal design when digital legal technology took decades to break through? We
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Legal Design as a Thing: A Theory of Change and a Set of Methods to Craft a Human-Centered Legal System Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Margaret Hagan
Introduction Human-centered design has been a dominant innovation methodology in service industries, from medicine to insurance to finance.1 It has now come to the legal system, together with movements related to legal technology, legal hacking, and access to justice reform, as a collective legal design movement.2 University labs, conferences, classes, and new job positions are oriented around “legal
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Works of War: Seymour Chwast Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York (March 28–May 18, 2019) Curated by Blazo Kovacevic, exhibit and catalog designed by Blazo Kovacevic (Exhibition Review) Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Steven Brower
In spring 2017, Binghamton University hosted “Milton Glaser: Modulated Patterns,” an exhibit of the design master’s then-recent work. The exhibit, curated and designed by university professor Blazo Kovacevic, featured wall-to-ceiling reproductions alongside original works, submersing the viewer in the visual environment. Two years later, the curators have followed with “Works of War: Seymour Chwast”—a
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A Design Space for Legal and Systems Capability: Interfaces for Self-Help in Complex Systems Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Margaret Hagan, F. Kürşat özenç
This article proposes a design space for designers and researchers working on the challenge of building people's capability to navigate complex systems, like the legal one. This capability is necessary for people whose rights, quality of life, and wellbeing necessitate them navigating bureaucratic systems. This design space aims to empower people to understand the system they are operating in, diagnose
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Can Visual Design Provide Legal Transparency? The Challenges for Successful Implementation of Icons for Data Protection Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Arianna Rossi, Monica Palmirani
Design is a key player in the future of data privacy and data protection. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) established by the European Union aims to rebalance the information asymmetry between the organizations that process personal data and the individuals to which that data refers. Machine-readable, standardized icons that present a “meaningful overview of the intended processing” are
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The Escambia Project: An Experiment in Community-Led Legal Design Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Melissa A. Moss
This article shares observations made during an experimental community-led design project undertaken to identify promising new solutions for civil justice services which low-income Escambia County residents could easily use. The Florida Bar Foundation-funded project generated three new initiatives that were prototyped, filed tested, and prepared for continuation. The Escambia Project ultimately engaged
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Airlines, Mayonnaise, and Justice: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Legal Design and Technology Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Gordon Ross
Design theory and practice are increasingly prevalent in legal and justice systems, at times reframing the relationship between the law and the world it seeks to make just. This article presents my professional experiences introducing design theory, methods, and mindsets into legal and government contexts, highlighting challenges and tensions across various legal design projects. Challenges include
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Rethinking Design: From the Methodology of Innovation to the Object of Design Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Ruth Neubauer, Erik Bohemia, Kerry Harman
In design research critique has recently been voiced against the multiple ways the notion of participation is understood and practiced. Studies of performativity and performance art have been used to account for this methodological multiplicity. However, in this paper, we argue that participation still has much offer design research as a foundational concept, but that a more nuanced understanding is
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Toward an Integrative Service Design Framework and Future Agendas Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Eun Yu
This article aims to understand different service design concepts and investigate how multiple service design concepts may be better integrated and interconnected based on mutually benefitting relationships. It proposes a typology of three service design concepts and an integrative service design framework, which guides specific pathways for cross-fertilization between marketing/management-centric
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Embedding Design in Transdisciplinary Research: Perspectives from Urban Africa Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Amollo Ambole
Emergence in the African urban context provides unique opportunities to study novel ways of designing within a transdisciplinary set up, yet little has been written in this regard. In this paper, I reflect on how I have engaged in transdisciplinary research as a designer in Africa's urban contexts over the recent years. These reflections offer African perspectives that are enriched by ongoing global
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Introduction Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Bruce Brown, Richard Buchanan, Carl DiSalvo, Dennis Doordan, Kipum Lee, Ramia Mazé
Disparities in health and health care across a range of populations and conditions are well described. Yet, many physicians remain unaware of their existence. To address this lack of awareness, accrediting bodies have established requirements for medical schools and residencies to teach medical students and residents physicians about various aspects of disparities in health and health care. The Association
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Designing the Design of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Don Ryun Chang
The Past Thirty years after hosting its first Olympic Games—the Seoul Summer Olympics in 1988—the Republic of Korea was given the honor of hosting a second—the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, which took place February 9–25, 2018. I was working in Korea as a corporate identity designer at the time of the 1988 Olympics, and for the 2018 Olympics, I had the privilege of chairing the Design Advisory
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Font Remix (A Metadesign) Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Ernesto Peña
In this article, I introduce the notion of remix as a form of metadesign—a methodological system—applicable to type design. Although the concept of metadesign has been entertained since at least the mid-1960s, it has gained new relevance as it has resurfaced in academic literature during the twenty-first century. This new relevance has been credited to the development of digital tools that allow for
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Knowledge Conditioned by the Void: On Complexity and the Design Problem Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Stephen Beckett
This article addresses the concept of complexity and its effect on the logic of the design problem. It argues that the competing interpretations of complexity represent a logical antinomy (in the Kantian sense), and that this prevents the concept's further elaboration. It is necessary therefore to address the conditions that have produced this antinomy. Using the Hegelian category of the determination
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Books Received Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Rachel Hellgren
Allanwood, Gavin and Peter Beare. User Experience Design: A Practical Introduction (2nd ed). London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019. ISBN 978-1-3500-2170-9 (pbk). 176 pages. Color illustrations. This book outlines methods and principles of user experience design, with twelve activities providing hands-on experience with basic user research tools. The second edition calls attention to the standardization
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Anything Goes with Wit and Ambiguity: Playfulness in Japanese Visual Culture Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Hung Ky Nguyen
Being witty and being culturally appreciated are two independent things in visual communication design. More often than not, on one hand, the Japanese sense of ‘playfulness’ is manifested in enigmatic images, which express intriguing aspects of Japanese psyche. On the other hand, the Western sense of humor is often light hearted, as its major aim is to raise a smile instead of ambiguity. This ethnographic
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Revolutionary Textiles: A Philosophical Inquiry on Electronic and Reactive Textiles Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Tincuta Heinzel, Juan P. Hinestroza
Often qualified as “revolutionary,” electronic and reactive textiles are promising to bring wide-reaching changes to our existence: from the way we dress to the way we communicate, from the way we sense and are sensed to the way we build and use textiles as substrates for new applications. From a philosophical perspective, this article explores the revolutionary character of electronic and reactive
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Politics of Participation in Design Research: Learning from Participatory Art Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Eva Knutz, Thomas Markussen
In design research, critique has recently been voiced against the multiple ways the notion of participation is understood and practiced. Studies of performativity and performance art have been used to account for this methodological multiplicity. However, in this article, we argue that participation still has much to offer design research as a foundational concept, but that a more nuanced understanding
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How Transdisciplinary is Design? An Analysis Using Citation Networks Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Jonathan Lewis
This article reveals how citation networks can be used to understand and demonstrate the ways design serves to integrate other bodies of knowledge. Analysis focused on two corpuses of peer-reviewed journal articles, representing two bodies of knowledge. The first corpus consisted of 277 articles with the words “Design Thinking” in title. The second corpus contained 296 articles with the words “Network
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Made in Patriarchy II: Researching (or Re-Searching) Women and Design Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Cheryl Buckley
Reflecting on arguments proposed in the article “Made in Patriarchy” (Design Issues 1986), this article proposes that by re-viewing and re-searching design through the lens of women's experiences, we can think again about what design means and who does it to understand the potential of design as a vital component of heterogeneous everyday lives.
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Accounting for Design Activism: On the Positionality and Politics of Designerly Intervention Design Issues Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Sarah Fox, Catherine Lim, Tad Hirsch, Daniela K. Rosner
We use two cases of design activism to examine designers' forms of positionality—or, the relations that enter into the formation of design interventions and the ways that a designer's situation affects the matter of those designs. We argue, by recognizing the stakes of their interventions and by mapping their contingencies, designers call into question the promise of their reforms—opening opportunities
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Mass Factory Housing: Design and Social Reform Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Fani Kostourou
In the past, housing and homeownership have been used as media for social reform. This article looks at the socio-political agenda behind the birth of company towns and the role of architecture and urban design in shaping the social life of the inhabitants. The study examines Cité Ouvrière, a nineteenth-century mass factory settlement in Mulhouse (France), which provided workers with access to property
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Unequal Ideas: Reflections on Designing Politics, an Urban Ideas Competition in Rio de Janeiro Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Adam Kaasa
This article initiates a discussion about the unequal geography of the labor that challenges institutions and processes of public scholarship in design. The comparison between the urban competitions in New York, London, and Rio de Janeiro demonstrates that it was only in the Global South that challenges to the technology of the competition were raised. These challenges were based on issues of power
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Keeping the System Going: Social Design and the Reproduction of Inequalities in Neoliberal Times Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Guy Julier, Lucy Kimbell
The reproduction of inequalities is a necessary product of neoliberal economic systems. Meanwhile, attempts to ameliorate this within social design actually perpetuate this situation. This, we argue, is partly due to the institutional configuration of design whose precarious professional norms mitigate against long-term consolidation. Relatedly, this struggle for recognition produces a kind of performativity
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The Shelves that Won't Hold: Material Politics and Social Inequality in Spatial Design Practice Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Mona Sloane
This article discusses how a material divide that leaves vulnerable communities with homes made of poor quality material is perpetuated in the system of spatial design. It examines a vignette about the development of the community theater in London to illustrate the unequal access to and participation in the design process as “intentional problem-solving” by different stakeholders. The discussion outlines
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On the Need for Mapping Design Inequalities Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Mona Sloane
This article introduces the special issue “Design Inequalities” and the articles contained within it. It provides a new conceptual framework by looking at design as a way of “making society” and exploring how design is entangled with social inequalities across a wide spectrum of domains. The ontological point of departure is to view “design” and “inequalities” as both superstructures and micro-practices
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Claims of Equity and Expertise: Feminist Interventions in the Design of DIY Communities and Cultures Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Ellen K. Foster
Using both interviews and participant observations, this article examines feminist design initiatives in hacker and maker cultures, unpacking their possible contribution to a world of more equitable digital technology development, use, and re(de)construction.
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Curb Cuts and Computers: Advocating for Design Equality in the 1980s Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Elizabeth Petrick
This article concerns the history of the curb cut metaphor as applied to personal computer technology in the 1980s. Disability advocates used the metaphor to argue the necessity for accessibility features on computers to enable greater access. To accomplish this goal, these advocates utilized a complex comparison between personal computers and sidewalk ramps to combat assumptions about who the intended
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Curators of Markets, Designers of Place: The Case of the Street Food Scene in London Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Paz Concha
This article focusses on the work of street-food market organizers in London as a design practice. The argument is based on ethnographic research about the curation of the street-food scene, which aimed at understanding how market organizers created markets as economic entities and design marketplaces as urban forms. Space, objects, people, aesthetics, and atmospheres were designed into a marketplace
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Reflections on Cartography: Notes on the Process of Mapping Design Inequalities Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Nell Beecham
This article provides a bookend to the collection and situates this Design Issues special issue “Design Inequalities” within the wider context of the studies of inequalities and design. Drawing on the theory of reflexivity as its guide, the article provides a narrative to processes of collating and editing a journal collection that draws into conversation two fields of research which rarely converge
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Designing the Female Orgasm: Situating the Sexual Entrepreneur in the Online Sex-Education Platform OMGYes Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Nell Beecham, Clio Unger
Grounded in interaction criticism, this article uses visual analysis to explore the performance techniques offered by the female-focused sex education platform OMGYes. Motivated to close a gendered orgasm gap, the site employs a range of methods designed to provide its users with techniques to achieve orgasm. Contextualizing the site within broader cultures of self-improvement, the article addresses
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Letter to the Editors: A Correction to “Basel to Boston: An Itinerary for Modernist Typography in America” Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Robert Wiesenberger, Elizabeth Resnick
Our article “Basel to Boston: An Itinerary for Modernist Typography in America” (volume 34, number 3, Summer 2018) addresses how and why the so-called “Swiss style” of graphic design came to be adopted so early and so enthusiastically by designers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and what it has meant for the history of design in America. Our stated focus was not on the origins and
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The Role of Vision in Ladislav Sutnar and Knud Lönberg-Holm's Designing Information Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Hannah Pivo
In 1947, Czech designer Ladislav Sutnar and Danish architect Knud Lönberg-Holm published three articles in Interiors magazine introducing their theories of modern visual communication to the professional design community in the United States. These articles, subsequently released together as Designing Information, were informed by the authors’ work at Sweet's Catalog Service, a dominant publisher of
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Design Activism in an Indonesian Village Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Alexandra Crosby
Many design practices in Indonesia combine a sense of urgency around environmental crises with very local forms of community organizing and alternative economies. Located in the village of Kandangan in an agricultural area of Central Java are two organizations called Magno and Spedagi, as well as a cluster of other design activist projects. This paper aims to bring some of these practices and projects
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Meaning Frames: The Structure of Problem Frames and Solution Frames Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Louise Møller Haase, Linda Nhu Laursen
In recent years, focus on the designer's ability to frame wicked problems has underlined the important positioning of the designer as a key player in the early phases of innovation. However, further clarification and development of the theory and terminology of framing are needed in order to understand and support the rather complex framing process that the design team engages in during the early phases
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Toward Design Orientation and Integration: Driving Design from Awareness to Action Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Erez Nusem, Judy Matthews, Cara Wrigley
Design is increasingly recognized as offering strategic value to business in driving innovation, and has assisted organizations in balancing the needs of several stakeholders while maintaining competitiveness. However, for organizations which are not design-oriented, realizing outcomes through design can present a complex challenge. This paper presents the findings of a two-year action research project
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John Heskett's Industrial Design: An Interview at Middlesex Polytechnic, 1981: Part Two: The Emergence of the Role of the Design and the Designer in the Industrial Economy Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Clive Dilnot, Lilián Sánchez-Moreno
An edited presentation of an extended interview with the design historian John Heskett undertaken a few months after the publication of Heskett's Industrial Design (Thames and Hudson, 1980). Part One explores the genesis and structure of Industrial Design, as well as wider problems in the writing of histories of design. Part Two examines circumstances and tensions in regard to understanding the roles
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The Science of Design: Tomás Maldonado, Buenos Aires 1922–Milano 2018 Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Jorge Frascara
Since the mid-1950s, Tomás Maldonado has been a pioneer in the development of a new way of understanding the purpose, the contexts, the methods, the interdisciplinary supports, and the means of design. With his passing on Monday, November 26, 2018, the design community lost not only a friend and an articulate and erudite advocate, but also a symbol of a way of life, dedicated to satisfying an endless
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Why the Failure of Systems Thinking Should Inform the Future of Design Thinking (06.07.09) Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Fred Collopy
Editors’ Introduction Ten years ago, Fred Collopy published this short provocative essay at Fast Company (June 7, 2009). Based on his experience working with systems thinking Collopy offered the proponents of design thinking a cautionary tale regarding the promise of thinking holistically about complex phenomena. He also offered his suggestions for a research agenda intended to harvest the insights
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Experiments in Experience: Towards an Alignment of Research through Design and John Dewey's Pragmatism Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Brian Dixon
This article draws an alignment between John Dewey's Pragmatism and design inquiry or, particularly, research which incorporates design practice. Three core components of Dewey's philosophy are described—namely, his theory of inquiry, his theory of communication, and his metaphysics—all of which are seen to interlink to form a unique approach to knowledge. From this, a number of key features of the
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Curating the Poster: An Environmental Approach Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Line Hjorth Christensen
The article examines curatorial practices in regard to graphic design and posters—a subject only sparsely covered by poster research. It investigates how urban, environmental structures can work as guidelines for curating posters and ephemerals in museums. By applying an ecological view to design, it stresses the reciprocal relationship of humans with their built and product-designed environments and
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Parody and Contextualization in Lebanese Album Covers Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Melissa Plourde Khoury
This article is a textual analysis initiating the examination of twelve album covers in relation to Lebanon. The covers are examined through the trans-contextualization of diverse and eclectic fusions. Such covers create complex narratives echoing band identities while, parody enabled continuum, yet critique detachment. Though the album covers form a commentary related to histories, they do not merely
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Open Source, Collaboration, and Access: A Critical Analysis of “Openness” in the Design Field Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Silvia Gasparotto
The article explores the concept of “openness” in the design field. In particular, it suggests a broad interpretation of the relationship between “openness” and design by analyzing the use of the expression “open design” between 2000 and 2017. This expression is related to words such as, co-design, crowdsourcing, open innovation, making and open manufacturing, which can be synthesized by the concepts
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Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Peter Clericuzio
This monumental exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work celebrating the sesquicentennial of his birth does not disappoint either the casual visitor or the seasoned scholar.1 Highly anticipated, it delivers on its promise to showcase the great buildings of Wright’s career alongside more obscure projects.2 It coincided serendipitously with the relocation of Wright’s archive from the Frank Lloyd Wright
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Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985 Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Dennis Doordan
We are obsessed with borders these days—who gets to define them, who is trying to cross them, who will pay for walls to stop people from crossing them. It is easy to think of borders as objects of discord and something that divides us. So it is a refreshing surprise to encounter a different approach to thinking about borders in the exhibition Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985
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John Heskett's Industrial Design: An Interview at Middlesex Polytechnic, 1981: Part One: Problems in Writing Histories of Design Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Clive Dilnot, Lilian Sanchez-Moreno
An edited presentation of an extended interview with the design historian John Heskett undertaken a few months after the publication of Heskett's Industrial Design (Thames and Hudson, 1980). The first part explores the genesis and structure of Industrial Design, as well as wider problems in the writing of histories of design. Part Two examines circumstances and tensions in regard to understanding the
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National Museum of African American History and Culture Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Victor Margolin
The dedication of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will take place Saturday, Sept. 24, on the museum’s grounds on the National Mall. Due to the size and nature of the event and its location on the National Mall (14th Street N.W. and Constitution Avenue N.W.) large crowds are expected. Security and logistics information follows: Dedication Ceremony The dedication
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Muriel Cooper Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Teal Triggs
92 “viewers space to elicit meaning or to remain confused by what they saw” (224). The same might be said of Dunne and Raby’s work, discussed by Twemlow as a commentary on mainstream design. Perhaps Catterall’s exhibitions and Dunne and Raby’s output are not as distant from the design industry as suggested by their forms and the narrative in which Twemlow places them. The economic base for their creative
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Surroundings and Environments in Fourth Order Design Design Issues Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Richard Buchanan
Interior design is a neglected practice within the broader framework of design theory. Indeed, it is often misunderstood by the general public and sometimes regarded problematically among better-recognized design practices such as graphic design, industrial design, interaction design, and service design. However, with careful attention to the central themes of interior design, one may gain a new perspective
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Translating Critical Design: Agonism in Engineering Education Design Issues Pub Date : 2018-10-01 James W. Malazita
Speculative and Critical Design (SCD) methods can produce provocative artifacts that help audiences recognize the political worlds in which all designed objects participate. Similarly, SCD can be leveraged in educational settings to help design students engage with social and political theory through their design work. SCD practices, however, are rarely seen outside of arts and creative design spaces
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Redirecting a Scattered Public Toward Alternative Matters of Concern: Shifting Perceptions of Urban Wastewater Governance in Indonesia Design Issues Pub Date : 2018-10-01 Tanja Rosenqvist
Designers can and already do play an important role in supporting publics as they are coming into being and to help clarify and express the publics’ interests. The coming into being of a public, however, does not guarantee it acts in its own best interest or in the best interest of the common good. Publics’ existing matters-of-concern might, as demonstrated in this article, be influenced by deeply
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Provocation, Conflict, and Appropriation: The Role of the Designer in Making Publics Design Issues Pub Date : 2018-10-01 Karin Hansson, Laura Forlano, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Carl DiSalvo, Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Shaowen Bardzell, Silvia Lindtner, Somya Joshi
The role and embodiment of the designer/artist in making publics is significant. This special issue draws attention to reflexive practices in Art & Design, and questions how these practices are embedded in the formations and operations of publics, grounded in six cases of participatory design conducted in the United States, India, Turkey, England, Denmark, and Belgium. From these design practices,
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