Design after Capitalism
Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow
$70.84
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2022
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262543569 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262543567 |
| Author: | Matthew Wizinsky |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 880g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 254mm |
Critics Review
Included in Fast Company’s Best Design Books of 2022
“It’s no small feat that Wizinsky is able to take two big ideas—capitalism and design—and synthesize them into a human-scale narrative. Design After Capitalism is part alternative history of design and capitalism entanglements, part case studies of post- and anti-capitalist design from around the world, and part tool kit to begin imagining new ways of design—ways of talking about it, ways of practicing it, and ways of engaging with it that could exist in a post-capitalist future.”
—Fast Company
Matthew Wizinsky
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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