Metadesigning Designing in the Anthropocene

John Wood (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

238 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-07102-2 (ISBN)

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Long-sighted, radical and provocative, this book offers a foundational framework of concepts, principles, methods (exemplified with selected tools) to enable metadesigners to manage and re-invent their practices.

Long-sighted, radical and provocative, this book offers a foundational framework of concepts, principles and methods (exemplified with selected tools) to enable metadesigners to manage and reinvent their practices.

The book reminds readers that designers are, albeit unwittingly, helping to shape the Anthropocene. Despite their willingness to deliver greener products and services, designers find themselves part of an industry that has become the go-to catalyst for dividends and profit. If our species is to achieve the rehabilitation and metamorphosis, we may need to design at the level of paradigms, genres, lifestyles and currencies. This would mean making design more integrated, comprehensive, adaptive, transdisciplinary, self-reflexive and relational. The book, therefore, advocates a shift of emphasis from designing ‘sustainable’ products, services and systems towards cultivating synergies that will induce regenerative lifestyles.

The book will be of interest to managers, designers, scholars and educators from a wide range of backgrounds, including design research, design history, design studies and environmental studies.

John Wood is Emeritus Professor of Design at Goldsmiths University of London.

Foreword. The Unthinkable Practice of Designing

Clive Dilnot

Introduction. The Conditions of Design

John Wood

Part 1: Game Changing

1. Up Close and Personal

Mathilda Tham

2. Re-shaping Meaning & Value

Jordan Dalladay-Simpson

3. Languaging Design

Julia Lockheart

Part 2: The Idea of Metadesign

4. Design Science

Paul Taylor

5. A Framework for Metadesign

Caio Adorno Vassão

6. The Poetic Dimension of Metadesign

Elisa Giaccardi

Part 3: Relational Thinking

7. Creative Quartets

John Wood

8. Beyond Human-Centred Design

Hannah Jones

Part 4: Bodies of Knowledge

9. Embodying Ubuntu

Olu Taiwo

10. Organisational Consciousness

John Backwell & John Wood

Part 5: Making Metadesign Work

11. Facilitating ‘Team Consciousness’

Anette Lundebye

12. Post-Disciplinary Design

Lara Furniss

13. Optimizing Synergistic Performance in Design

Chuck Ware

Part 6: Beyond the Thinkable

14. Co-exploring the visual metaphors of the Dream

Julia Lockheart

15. Beyond Semiotics

Hyaesook Yang

16. Becoming Polyphibious

Živa Ljubec

Erscheinungsdatum	12.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	Design Research for Change
Zusatzinfo	56 Halftones, black and white; 56 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	280 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-032-07102-8 / 1032071028
ISBN-13	978-1-032-07102-2 / 9781032071022
Zustand	Neuware