Readings and bibliography

Design As Critique_Dunne + Raby

This book has a lot of useful information about critical design. About why it exists, what its purposes are and how it affects people. As I am discussing design in relation to activism it will be very useful for me to look at critical design and explore it’s powers and opportunities to affect behaviors and attitudes.

Adversarial Design_DiSalvo

"Adversarial Design" will be interesting for me to look at as it is talking about adversarial design both in theory and practice. For me it’s a new term and I really want to explore it more deeply. This book also talks about political design which is a very big part of design activism. 

The Disruptive Aesthetics of Design Activism: Enacting Design Between Art and Politics 

This article is discussing design activism. Thomas Markussen claims that the new framework is needed for design activism for understanding urban design activism subject. He also talks about what should be considered design activism, what it’s power is and why it is important. He claims that design activism through aesthetics should evoke revelation, contest and dissensus. There is a lot I could agree with as well as a lot I could argue with in this piece of writing, so it would be a useful reference for me.

Bibliography

DiSalvo, Carl. Adversarial design. The MIT Press, 2012.

Dunne, A., & Raby, F. (2013). Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. MIT Press.

Markussen, T. (2013). The disruptive aesthetics of design activism: Enacting design between art and politics. Design Issues, 29(1), 38-50.