Design After Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow

How design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical...
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Author: Matthew Wizinsky
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Design After Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow by Wizinsky, Matthew

Design After Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow

Dhs. 184.91

Design After Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow

Dhs. 184.91
Author: Matthew Wizinsky
Format: Paperback
Language: English
How design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles.

The designed things, experiences, and symbols that we use to perceive, understand, and perform our everyday lives are much more than just props. They directly shape how we live. In Design after Capitalism, Matthew Wizinsky argues that the world of industrial capitalism that gave birth to modern design has been dramatically transformed. Design today needs to reorient itself toward deliberate transitions of everyday politics, social relations, and economies. Looking at design through the lens of political economy, Wizinsky calls for the field to transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism--to combine design entrepreneurship with social empowerment in order to facilitate new ways of producing those things, symbols, and experiences that make up everyday life.

After analyzing the parallel histories of capitalism and design, Wizinsky offers some historical examples of anticapitalist, noncapitalist, and postcapitalist models of design practice. These range from the British Arts and Crafts movement of the nineteenth century to contemporary practices of growing furniture or biotextiles and automated forms of production. Drawing on insights from sociology, philosophy, economics, political science, history, environmental and sustainability studies, and critical theory--fields not usually seen as central to design--he lays out core principles for postcapitalist design; offers strategies for applying these principles to the three layers of project, practice, and discipline; and provides a set of practical guidelines for designers to use as a starting point. The work of postcapitalist design can start today, Wizinsky says--with the next project.

Author: Matthew Wizinsky
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 10.00h x 6.93w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780262543569

About the Author
Matthew Wizinsky, a designer with more than twenty years of professional experience, is Associate Professor in the Ullman School of Design at the University of Cincinnati and Associate Editor for the design journal Visible Language.

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