Discursive Design
Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things
$101.91
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
17 January 2023
Summary
Good design provides solutions to problems. It improves our buildings, medical equipment, clothing, and kitchen utensils, among other objects. But what if design could also improve societal problems by prompting positive ideological change?
In this book, Bruce and Stephanie Tharp survey recent critical design practices and propose a new, more inclusive field of socially minded practice—discursive design. While many consider good design to be unobtrusive, intuitive, invisible, and unde…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262546553 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262546558 |
| Author: | Bruce M. Tharp, Stephanie M. Tharp |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Release Date: | 17 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 1.24kg |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 176mm |
| Series: | Design Thinking, Design Theory |
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About The Author
Bruce M. Tharp
Bruce Tharp runs the Chicago-based design studio Materious, established in 2005, with Stephanie Tharp. They have done work for such companies as Ligne Roset, M et-Hennessy, The Art Institute of Chicago, Crate & Barrel, and Kikkerland. He is Associate Professor in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.
Stephanie Tharp runs the Chicago-based design studio Materious, established in 2005, with Bruce Tharp. They have done work for such companies as Ligne Roset, M et-Hennessy, The Art Institute of Chicago, Crate & Barrel, and Kikkerland. She is Associate Professor in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.
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