{"product_id":"designing-knowledge-9781350319875","title":"Designing Knowledge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy positioning designers and their practices at the center of design studies, \u003ci\u003eDesigning Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e merges theory and practice to highlight how knowledge creation can contribute to an expanded and more inclusive design practice. Bringing together a rich variety of perspectives, methods and approaches, and by exploring and critiquing current issues in design studies, this book encourages designers to reflect on their work in a new light. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesign studies practice is a material and tangible focus on knowledge production and mobilization in the field of design. Throughout 15 chapters featuring a wide range of case studies, design practitioners and theorists address how they produce and mobilize knowledge about design through their practice. Chapters explore how to dismantle the colonial structures of modernist design and depart from the privileged spaces of art historical concepts in design history. They address tensions between traditional Indigenous design and contemporary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: What We Make in a Design Studies Practice, Bonne Zabolotney \u003ci\u003e(Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection One: Redirecting Practices\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction, \u003ci\u003eBonne Zabolotney (Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 1. Tactical Ambiguity: Designing in the Space Between, \u003ci\u003eBonne Zabolotney (Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. \u003ci\u003eYvy rembe’y rojapo\u003c\/i\u003e (Land Bordering); Between Borderlands and Intersections: Dismantling the Colonial Structures of Modernist Design, \u003ci\u003ePatricia Vera (Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Design Research Practice Narrative: 'Happy Objects within Reach’, \u003ci\u003eHannah Korsmeyer (Monash University, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Languages and Typographic Representations, \u003ci\u003eLeo Vicenti (Field Museum, Chicago, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Conversations with Designers: Positioning Ethics, Values and Experiences within a Professional Design Practice, \u003ci\u003eMark Rutledge (Graphic Designer, Yukon), Brian Johnson and Silas Munro (Polymode, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection Two: Paradigm Shifting\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction, \u003ci\u003eBonne Zabolotney (Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. InWorlding: Design Practice and Personhood, \u003ci\u003eSophie Gaur (Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Designing New Narratives for Untold Design Histories, \u003ci\u003eBonne Zabolotney (Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Making a Design Fiction from the Inside-Out, \u003ci\u003eAnne Burdick (ArtCenter College of Design, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Design-enabled Recommoning, \u003ci\u003eDimeji Onafuwa (Microsoft, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Turning the Body Inside Out: Model-Making, Critical Theory and Self-Accountability, \u003ci\u003eMyriam Diatta (Independent Practitioner-researcher)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection Three: Immersing\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction, \u003ci\u003eBonne Zabolotney (Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Kaleidoscopic Storytelling: Positionality, Indigenous Ways and Slow Autoethnography, \u003ci\u003eLisa Grocott (Monash University, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 12. Zen and Design: Cultivating Insight, \u003ci\u003eLouise St. Pierre (Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 13. The Typographic Translations of Borges’s Manuscripts, \u003ci\u003eCeleste Martin (Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 14. Centering Anti-Racism in Design: From Theory to Practice, \u003ci\u003eTerresa Moses (University of Minnesota, USA) and Lisa E. Mercer (University of Illinois, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 15. It’s Not Just About Mountains You Know: Nature-clothing Writing as Design Practice, \u003ci\u003eKate Fletcher (Royal Danish Academy, Denmark)\u003c\/i\u003e  Epilogue: Designing in Good Faith, \u003ci\u003eBonne Zabolotney (Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e Contributors: A Community of Practice\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407534956887,"sku":"9781350319875","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350319875.jpg?v=1730499699","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/designing-knowledge-9781350319875","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}