{"product_id":"tricky-design-9781474277181","title":"Tricky Design","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTricky Design \u003c\/i\u003eresponds to the burgeoning of scholarly interest in the cultural meanings of objects, by addressing the moral complexity of certain designed objects and systems.  The volume brings together leading international designers, scholars and critics to explore some of the ways in which the practice of design and its outcomes can have a dark side, even when the intention is to design for the public good. Considering a range of designed objects and relationships, including guns, eyewear, assisted suicide kits, anti-rape devices, passports and prisons, the contributors offer a view of design as both progressive and problematic, able to propose new material and human relationships, yet also constrained by social norms and ideology.    This contradictory, tricky quality of design is explored in the editors'' introduction, which positions the objects, systems, services and ''things'' discussed in the book in relation to the idea of the trickster that occurs in anthropological \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the past forty years the focus of design has broadened considerably. It is about time we addressed the bad and the ugly as well as the good designers do, and this book does just that. A valuable resource for everyone interested in the role of design in society. * Rachel Cooper OBE, Distinguished Professor of Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University, UK *\u003cbr\u003eIn order to overcome the tragedies of the present, design must re-embrace the example of Metis, the Greek Goddess of wisdom and cunning. This challenging book indicates several paths to do so, by putting forward‘tricky’ research directions for design culture. * Ezio Manzini, Founder of DESIS and Chair Professor of Design at the University of the Arts, London, UK *\u003cbr\u003eSumming Up: Recommended. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword \u003ci\u003eClive Dilnot, independent, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  Introduction – Design’s Tricky Ethics \u003ci\u003eTom Fisher, Nottingham Trent, UK and Lorraine Gamman, University of the Arts London, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  Section One, Tricky Thinging  Chapter 1: Civilian and Military: Design Across an Ethical Horizon \u003ci\u003eTom Fisher, Nottingham Trent University, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 2: Designers and Brokers of the Mobility Regime \u003ci\u003eMahmoud Kesharvarz, Uppsala University, Sweden\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 3: Trickery in Design: Cooptation, Subversion and Politics \u003ci\u003eNidhi Srinavas, Parsons School of Design, USA and Eduardo Staszowski, Parsons School of Design, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 4:  Guns and morality: Mediation, Agency and Responsibility \u003ci\u003eTim Dant, Lancaster University, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 5: The Magic that is Design \u003ci\u003eCameron Tonkinwise, Carnegie Mellon University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  Section Two: Tricky Processes, Tricky Principles  Chapter 6: Designer\/Shapeshifter: A De-colonial Redirection for Speculative and Critical Design \u003ci\u003eLuiza Prado de O. Martins, A Parede, Germany and Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira, A Parede, Germany\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 7: Making 'Safety', Making Freedom: Design and Contested Futures \u003ci\u003eShana Agid, Parsons School of Design, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 8: The Nature of ‘Obligation’ in Doing Design with Communities: Participation, Politics and Care \u003ci\u003eAnn Light, University of Sussex, UK and Yoko Akama, RMIT University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  Section Three: Tricky Policy  Chapter 9: Designing Policy Objects: Designer as Anti-Hero \u003ci\u003eLucy Kimbell, University of the Arts London, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 10: Tricky like a Leprachaun – Navigating the Paradoxes of Public Service Innovation \u003ci\u003eAdam Thorpe, U\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eniversity of the Arts London, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 11: Understanding Suicide and Assisted Dying – Why “Design for Death” is Tricky \u003ci\u003eLorraine Gamman, University of the Arts London, UK \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand Pras Gunasekera\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, University of the Arts London, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 12: The Quest for Purity, 'Clean' Design and a New Ethics of 'Dirty' Design \u003ci\u003eJeremy Kidwell, University of Birmingham UK\u003c\/i\u003e  Conclusion \u003ci\u003eTom Fisher, Nottingham Trent, UK and Lorraine Gamman, University of the Arts London, UK\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019913822551,"sku":"9781474277181","price":104.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474277181.jpg?v=1750781710","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tricky-design-9781474277181","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}