Deviant Design: The Ad Hoc, the Illicit, the Controversial Martin Craig
Deviant Design: The Ad Hoc, the Illicit, the Controversial Martin Craig Craig Martin addresses the transgressive or deviant aspects of design: design that straddles the divide between the licit and…
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Deviant Design: The Ad Hoc, the Illicit, the Controversial Martin Craig
Craig Martin addresses the transgressive or deviant aspects of design: design that straddles the divide between the licit and illicit, the legal and illegal, in a variety of ways. Martin argues that design is not necessarily for the social good, but that it is immersed in the social realm in all its contradictions and confusions.Through a series of case studies he explores a wide range of social practices that employ illicit forms of design thinking, including: early computer hacking and present-day hacker culture in which everyday objects are repurposed and deliberately misused; the cultures of reproduction, counterfeit and pirated versions of classic and luxury designs; and the use of material practices by smugglers to conceal drugs within consumer goods and luggage.Deviant Design contends that these amateur and illicit practices challenge the normative idea