ABSTRACT
This book examines, through an interdisciplinary lens, the relationship between political dissent and processes of designing.
In the past twenty years, theorists of social movements have noted a diversity of visual and performative manifestations taking place in protest, while the fields of design, broadly defined, have been characterized by a growing interest in activism. The book’s premise stems from the recognition that material engagement and artifacts have the capacity to articulate political arguments or establish positions of disagreement. Its contributors look at a wide array of material practices generated by both professional and nonprofessional design actors around the globe, exploring case studies that vary from street protests and encampments to design pedagogy and community-empowerment projects.
For students and scholars of design studies, urbanism, visual culture, politics, and social movements, this book opens up new perspectives on design and its place in contemporary politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section 1|98 pages
Social Movements as Design Agents
part 1|54 pages
Visuals and Objects of Protest
chapter 5|14 pages
The Distribution of Abilities
part 2|42 pages
Artifacts in the Afterlife of Protest
chapter 6|14 pages
Art of the March
chapter 7|15 pages
Dissent, Design of Territory, and Design of Memory
chapter 8|11 pages
Beautiful Trouble
part Response to Section 1|10 pages
Social Movements as Design Agents
part Section 2|126 pages
Dissenting through Material Engagement
part 1|51 pages
Political Contention by Design
chapter 12|10 pages
Data Acquisition, Data Analytics, and Data Articulations
part 2|72 pages
Spaces of Contestation and Prefiguration
chapter 15|15 pages
Events and Ecologies of Design and Urban Activism
chapter 16|9 pages
Temporarily Open
chapter 17|15 pages
Designing Post-carbon Futures
chapter 18|16 pages
Occupied Theater Embros
part Response to Section 2|8 pages
Dissenting through Material Engagement