Tricky Design - Tom Fisher

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Résumé :
Tricky Design responds 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 literature, as well as in classical thought, discussing design interventions that have positive and negative ethical consequences. These will include objects, both material and 'immaterial', systems with both local and global scope, and also different processes of designing. This important new volume brings a fresh perspective to the complex nature of 'things', and makes an original contribution to debates in design ethics, design philosophy and material culture.

Biographie:
Tom Fisher is Professor in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Lorraine Gamman is Professor of Design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK.

Sommaire:
Foreword Clive Dilnot, independent, USA Introduction - Design's Tricky Ethics Tom Fisher, Nottingham Trent, UK and Lorraine Gamman, University of the Arts London, UK Section One, Tricky Thinging Chapter 1: Civilian and Military: Design Across an Ethical Horizon Tom Fisher, Nottingham Trent University, UK Chapter 2: Designers and Brokers of the Mobility Regime Mahmoud Kesharvarz, Uppsala University, Sweden Chapter 3: Trickery in Design: Cooptation, Subversion and Politics Nidhi Srinavas, Parsons School of Design, USA and Eduardo Staszowski, Parsons School of Design, USA Chapter 4: Guns and morality: Mediation, Agency and Responsibility Tim Dant, Lancaster University, UK Chapter 5: The Magic that is Design Cameron Tonkinwise, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Section Two: Tricky Processes, Tricky Principles Chapter 6: Designer/Shapeshifter: A De-colonial Redirection for Speculative and Critical Design Luiza Prado de O. Martins, A Parede, Germany and Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira, A Parede, Germany Chapter 7: Making 'Safety', Making Freedom: Design and Contested Futures Shana Agid, Parsons School of Design, USA Chapter 8: The Nature of 'Obligation' in Doing Design with Communities: Participation, Politics and Care Ann Light, University of Sussex, UK and Yoko Akama, RMIT University, USA Section Three: Tricky Policy Chapter 9: Designing Policy Objects: Designer as Anti-Hero Lucy Kimbell, University of the Arts London, UK Chapter 10: Tricky like a Leprachaun - Navigating the Paradoxes of Public Service Innovation Adam Thorpe, University of the Arts London, UK Chapter 11: Understanding Suicide and Assisted Dying - Why Design for Death is Tricky Lorraine Gamman, University of the Arts London, UK and Pras Gunasekera, University of the Arts London, UK Chapter 12: The Quest for Purity, 'Clean' Design and a New Ethics of 'Dirty' Design Jeremy Kidwell, University of Birmingham UK Conclusion