Design as means to...

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May 2013

1 post

July 2012

3 posts

“It’s not simply presenting artworks, design objects (both quickly becoming...”

– A noteworthy statement on the means and ends of interdisciplinary practice by Binna Choi, Director of CASCO - Office for Art, Design and Theory. Something to aspire to.

June 2012

2 posts

May 2012

3 posts

Architecture and Medellín →

Finally, Medellín on mainstream press, since i first heard Ezio Manzini presented it as case study of design for “social innovation” at Cumulus Shanghai 2010. The article is one example of a very much-needed model of architecture journalism - not overly optimistic and taking into consideration formal innovation within the social and economic ecology.

April 2012

3 posts

“…design culture is impoverished without the public participation —...”

– - Rick Poynor’s well-articulated, necessary and urgent call for design academia to actively enter public discourse.

“…the great thing about graphic design is that it is almost always about...”

– One of architecture’s most cynical and provocative critics in (rare and rather overdue) praise of a graphic designer’s writings – here’s Aaron Betsky’s well-chosen quote from Michael Bierut’s 2007 book on being a good designer which i think applies across the...

March 2012

7 posts

“To design means always to engage with what is not-yet but could be. To design...”

– Deleuze and Design Call for Papers (Dr Betti Marenko, CSM CA&D)

February 2012

4 posts

On precarious socially+politically engaged-design →

Kudos to Brave New Alps - founders of Department 21 at the RCA – for another socially- and politically-engaged communication design initiative

January 2012

2 posts

December 2011

7 posts

November 2011

5 posts

Bruno Latour's 5 Notes on Design →

Five things that characterize design presented at the Networks of Design Conference (2008) for much (re)consideration: 1. humility 2. attention to detail 3. a mix of symbol and function 4. all design is redesign 5. design as an ethical practice.

October 2011

4 posts

Thanks Dezeen for a glimpse of what is possibly a key model to exhibiting architecture – one that doesn’t hide the complexity and complicity (with politics and economics) of a practice in its attempt to raise the agency of architectural thinking, through non-linear intersections between past, present and future, and revealing the relationship between the built and unbuilt, and consequences...

September 2011

6 posts

August 2011

2 posts

July 2011

1 post