Discursive Design: Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things Tharp Bruce M.
Discursive Design: Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things Tharp Bruce M. Exploring how design can be used for good--prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive…
Specifikacia Discursive Design: Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things Tharp Bruce M.
Discursive Design: Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things Tharp Bruce M.
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. But what if design could also improve societal problems by prompting positive ideological change? It improves our buildings, medical equipment, clothing, and kitchen utensils, among other objects.
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. 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. Discursive design (derived from "discourse") expands the boundaries of how we can use design--how objects are, in effect, good(s) for