Main entry:

Tharp, Bruce M., author.

Title & Author:

Discursive design : critical, speculative, and alternative things / Bruce M. Tharp and Stephanie M. Tharp.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]

Description:

xiii, 617 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Series:

Design thinking, design theory

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 582-600) and index.
Part I. Discursive design: in theory : Introduction : Why write such a book? ; Why read such a book? -- Background : So, what's wrong with design? ; What is the four-fields framework? ; What can and can't a four-field approach do? -- Foundation : What is discourse, discoursing, and discursive design? ; What isn't discursive design? ; How do discursive objects communicate, in theory? ; How do discursive objects communicate, in practice? ; What are the domains of discursive design? -- Theorizing practice : Intention: what's a discursive designer to do? ; Understanding: what's a discursive designer to know? ; Message: what's a discursive designer to say? ; Scenario: how does a discursive designer set the stage for discourse? ; Artifact: what's a discursive designer to make? ; Audience: to whom does a discursive designer speak? ; Context: how does a discursive designer disseminate? ; Interaction: how does a discursive designer connect? ; Impact: what effect can a discursive designer have? -- Conclusion : What's wrong with discursive design(ers) today? ; Where's discursive design headed? -- Part II. Discursive design: in practice : Introduction : In practice -- Discursive designing: nine facets : Intention: in practice ; Understanding: in practice ; Message: in practice ; Scenario: in practice ; Artifact: in practice ; Audience: in practice ; Context: in practice ; Interaction: in practice ; Impact: in practice -- Case studies : Case study: Global Futures Lab ; Case study: (Im)possible Baby -- Case study: Umbrellas for the Civil but Discontent Man.

Summary:

Exploring how design can be used for good-prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive social change. 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 undemanding intellectually, discursive design instead targets the intellect, prompting self-reflection and igniting the imagination. Discursive design (derived from "discourse") expands the boundaries of how we can use design-how objects are, in effect, good(s) for thinking. 'Discursive Design' invites us to see objects in a new light, to understand more than their basic form and utility. Beyond the different foci of critical design, speculative design, design fiction, interrogative design, and adversarial design, Bruce and Stephanie Tharp establish a more comprehensive, unifying vision as well as innovative methods.

ISBN:

9780262038980 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0262038986 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780262546553 (paperback)
0262546558

Subject:

Design Psychological aspects.
Design Aspect psychologique.
Design
Diskursivität

Form/genre:

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Tharp, Stephanie, author.
Design thinking, design theory.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304266
Call No.: BIB 249789
Status: Available