What Design Can't Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion

A witty, tongue-in-cheek discussion of design's potentials and pitfallsIn focusing on creating preferable conditions, the discipline of...
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What Design Can't Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion by Lorusso, Silvio

What Design Can't Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion

$38.28

What Design Can't Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion

$38.28
Author: Silvio Lorusso
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A witty, tongue-in-cheek discussion of design's potentials and pitfalls

In focusing on creating preferable conditions, the discipline of design is optimistic by default. And yet, vernacular manifestations of skepticism, dissatisfaction and even resentment toward design abound. Instead of systematically discarding them, can these "sad passions" shed a valuable light on the blind spots of the field? Can disillusion be something more than disillusionment? Can it become an emotional method to unveil design's dysfunctions and contradictions?
Author Silvio Lorusso looks into historical and present manifestations of design disillusion to shorten the gap between expectations and reality when it comes to the everyday practice of designers. Using humorous and irreverent visuals, often containing jokes about design, Lorusso constructs thoughtful dichotomies on such topics as synthesis and autonomy, power and impotence, and aspirations and compromise. The result is an amusing yet academic consideration of the design profession and its future.
Silvio Lorusso (born 1985) is the author of Entreprecariat: Everyone Is an Entrepreneur. Nobody Is Safe. He holds a PhD in Design Sciences from the Iuav University of Venice, and is an assistant professor and vice-director of the Center for Other Worlds at the Lusófona University in Lisbon.



Author: Silvio Lorusso
Publisher: Set Margins' Publications
Published: 03/26/2024
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9789083350134

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