Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World by Easterling, Keller
Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World by Easterling, Keller

Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World

How to Design the World: Working Without Solutions In Medium Design everyone is a designer. But design,...
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Author: Keller Easterling
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Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World by Easterling, Keller

Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World

CHF 32.55
Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World by Easterling, Keller

Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World

CHF 32.55
Author: Keller Easterling
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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How to Design the World: Working Without Solutions

In Medium Design everyone is a designer. But design, in this case, inverts the typical focus on object over its settings to concentrate on the medium--the matrix space between objects, events, and ideological declarations. It disrupts habitual modern approaches to the world's intractable dilemmas--from climate cataclysm to inequality to concentrations of authoritarian power. In a series of case studies dealing with everything from automation and migration to explosive urban growth and atmospheric changes, Medium Design offers spatial tools for innovation and global decision-making to challenge the authority of more familiar legal or economic approaches.

From this perspective, solutions are mistakes and ideologies are unreliable guides. Rather than the modern desire for the new, designers find more sophistication in relationships between emergent and incumbent technologies. Encouraging entanglement, medium design does not try to eliminate problems but rather to put them together in productive combinations. And in the process of reconceptualizing design, Easterling puzzles over bulletproof powers, Stanley Kubrick, ISIS recruits, literary characters, and iconic activists in the hope of outwitting political deadlocks and offering forms of activism for modulating power and temperament in organizations of all kinds.

Author: Keller Easterling
Publisher: Verso
Published: 01/19/2021
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781788739320

About the Author

Keller Easterling is an award-winning writer, architect and Professor at Yale. She is the author of Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space; Enduring Innocence, which was named Archinect's Best Book of 2005; and Organization Space. She is also the author of two essay length books: The Action is the Form and Subtraction. Her writing and design work was included in the 2014 and 2018 Venice Biennales. Easterling is a 2019 United States Artist Fellow in Architecture and Design and the recipient of the 2019 Blueprint Award for Critical Thinking.


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