Description

Book Synopsis
Exploring how design can be used for good—prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive social change.

Good design provides solutions to problems. It improves our buildings, medical equipment, clothing, and kitchen utensils, among other objects. But what if design could also improve societal problems by prompting positive ideological change? In this book, Bruce and Stephanie Tharp survey recent critical design practices and propose a new, more inclusive field of socially minded practice: discursive design. While many consider good design to be unobtrusive, intuitive, invisible, and undemanding intellectually, discursive design instead targets the intellect, prompting self-reflection and igniting the imagination. Discursive design (derived from “discourse”) expands the boundaries of how we can use design—how objects are, in effect, good(s) for thinking.
Discursive Design invites us to see objects in a new ligh

Discursive Design Critical Speculative and

    Product form

    A Paperback by Bruce M. Tharp, Stephanie M. Tharp

    £32.80

    Includes FREE delivery

    RRP £41.00 – you save £8.20 (20%)

    Order before 4pm today for delivery by Wed 16 Sep 2026.

    1 in stock

      Trusted by thousands of customers. See 2,385+ Customer Reviews

      View other formats and editions of Discursive Design Critical Speculative and by Bruce M. Tharp

      Book details

      Publisher MIT Press
      Published 11/22/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780262546553
      978-0262546553
      ISBN-10 0262546558
      Also in:
      Art & Photography Design and llustration Digital, video and new media arts

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Exploring how design can be used for good—prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive social change.

      Good design provides solutions to problems. It improves our buildings, medical equipment, clothing, and kitchen utensils, among other objects. But what if design could also improve societal problems by prompting positive ideological change? In this book, Bruce and Stephanie Tharp survey recent critical design practices and propose a new, more inclusive field of socially minded practice: discursive design. While many consider good design to be unobtrusive, intuitive, invisible, and undemanding intellectually, discursive design instead targets the intellect, prompting self-reflection and igniting the imagination. Discursive design (derived from “discourse”) expands the boundaries of how we can use design—how objects are, in effect, good(s) for thinking.
      Discursive Design invites us to see objects in a new ligh

      Recently viewed products

      © 2026 Book Curl

        • American Express
        • Apple Pay
        • Diners Club
        • Discover
        • Google Pay
        • Maestro
        • Mastercard
        • PayPal
        • Shop Pay
        • Union Pay
        • Visa

        Login

        Forgot your password?

        Don't have an account yet?
        Create account