Enfolding Design and STS

The fields of Design and Science and Technology Studies (STS) have informed and inspired one another for decades, with scholars frequently moving between them. Although substantial scholarship in Design draws on STS, and vice versa, there is comparatively little work that critically examines the interplay between these fields in depth. Enfolding Design & STS does precisely this, and is a significant and timely contribution to both disciplines. Wilkie and Michael are uniquely positioned to provide this analysis and insight, given their extensive experience working across and between Design and STS. This book will serve as a valuable resource for scholars and students, offering a framework for collaboration and shaping future research trajectories. * Carl DiSalvo, Associate Professor in the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA *This book is not only a map of Design and STS—it’s an invitation to navigate their tangled, shifting, and surprisingly generative terrain. Design and STS don’t merely intersect—they shape each other in ways that challenge disciplinary boundaries, foreground aesthetic inquiry, and invite new modes of making and knowing. A vital contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship. * Hannah Star Rogers, author of ‘Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge’ (2022) *Responding to the growing realisation of design as a social practice, this book is an insightful study of the intersections and synergies between Design and Science and Technologies Studies (STS) and the various epistemic dialogues and ‘matters of concern’ that emerge in their versatile webs of practice. Meticulous, filled with insightful examples and analytically refreshing, it is a must-read for every student, academic and practitioner interested in the production of design knowledge and the social and political nature of the outcomes of design. * Albena Yaneva, Professor in the Department of Architecture and Design, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy *

Alex Wilkie is Professor in the Department of Design at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Mike Michael is Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK.

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