Design politics
Is design political even before it raises political questions? Where we understand that design and conception are not simply about creating/generating an object, a service or an experience...
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collectionConviction pieces
The collection of resources from the series ‘Political Design in Essence’. A visual read...
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Sri Yantra, Rajasthan, painting from the late 18th century articleGinsberg & Sottsass: operational exchanges
Through a fruitful dialogue between the poet's work and that of the designer, an ‘eccentric’ functionality emerges, which breaks free from functionalism while sublimating it.
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“Sièges acier R.H.”, technical document 513, René Herbst, c. 1928 articleModern dichotomies
Between the ideological rhetoric of a designer and the political and colonial reality of production... A political reinterpretation of Sandow chairs.
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Pierre Auguste Renoir, The Reader, 1874-1876 articleFrom public reading to silence
Questioning a gendered vision of reading, historian Elizabeth Haines imagines a living, inclusive library.
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Colleen Tighe, Design is Not Neutral, 2018 articleDesign is not neutral…
An invitation to chart a new course for the teaching of graphic design in art schools.
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Baskervvol, Collective Bye Bye Binary, 2018-2021 articleExperiments and non-binary typographic imaginaries
New typographical (de)compositions and (de)constructions and transfeminist rearrangement of written and spoken language as a political project.
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Theodor W. Adorno, detail, n.d. articleAdorno, functionalism and modernity
Thinking about functionalism with Theodor W. Adorno in the age of consumerism. A re-reading of the 1965 text by the Frankfurt School philosopher: ‘On Some Problems of Functionalism Today.’
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Simone C. Niquille/Technoflesh, Safety Measures, 2018 articleOn the fabrication of evidence...
Modelling tools to establish evidence in legal or political contexts... An interview with Simone Niquile and Francesco Sebregondi on the ‘design of truth’.
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The Sea Shepherd M/Y Robert Hunter follows the Nisshin Maru, factory ship of the Japanese whaling fleet, off the Antarctic coast, 9 February 2007 articleResearch and destroy... design through research
This is the claim of graphic designer Daniel van der Velden: a practice built on research.
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Cora T. Walker, photo: Mike Lien, 1969 articleA plea for the people of Harlem
A little-known and important speech from the famous year when Aspen went off the rails... Cora T. Walker, a black lawyer, spoke to an audience of designers about living conditions in the Harlem ghetto.
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Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, still, 2019. Directed by Céline Sciamma, director of photography: Claire Mathon article“Yesterday’s future”
Based on Judy Attfield‘s ’FORM/female FOLLOWS FUNCTION/male’, a reflection on geographical and cultural relationships to writing, ‘studies’ and historical studies.
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D. Carter, M. Geerits, A. Gouillart, E. Malliaraki, peccary equipped with a biomarker Augmented Nature, 2018 articleDesigning the Wild!
The essay questions the possibility of ecosystem design, the lasting impact of social constructions of nature, and the role of technological intervention.
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Zucotti Park: Occupy Wall Street. 2011 articleTowards anarchist design
With Ernesto Oroza and Olivier Peyricot, consider a design that is truly autonomous, self-determined, egalitarian, emancipated from economic and political power, free and not simply libertarian?
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“Il participe, il a participé”, Atelier populaire Marseille, 1968 articleParticipate!
A political critique of co-design and a call for ‘mesopolitics’, i.e. the politics of living environments as a practice of caring for the common good.
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Clark Richert, View of Drop City, The Complex, in El Moro, outside Trinidad, Colorado c. 1966 article“The Whole Earth Catalogue”, the next step for the white man?
How racism and sexism of mainstream America infiltrate counter-culture communities...