Critical Fabulations

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Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design

By Daniela K. Rosner

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Critical Fabulations by Daniela K. Rosner challenges conventional design paradigms by redefining design as a practice that is investigative, activist, personal, and culturally situated. The book critically reinterprets the history of design, especially in computational systems, to uncover and uplift overlooked narratives and practices. Rosner draws on feminist technoscience to reveal how craftwork and hardware manufacturing are deeply intertwined, expanding the meaning and methodologies of design from within the discipline.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in arts and culture, design theory, feminist studies, and the history of technology. It will particularly appeal to designers, academics, and activists seeking to challenge dominant narratives and explore inclusive and responsible design practices.

A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.

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A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.

In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally situated, responsive and responsible. Challenging the field's dominant paradigms and reinterpreting its history, Rosner wants to change the way we historicise the practice, reworking it from the inside.

Focusing on the development of computational systems, she takes on powerful narratives of innovation and technology shaped by the professional expertise that has become integral to the field's mounting status within the new industrial economy. To do so, she intervenes in legacies of design, expanding what is considered "design" to include long-silenced narratives of practice, and enhancing existing design methodologies based on these rediscovered inheritances.

Drawing on discourses of feminist technoscience, she examines craftwork's contributions to computing innovation—how craftwork becomes hardware manufacturing, and how hardware manufacturing becomes craftwork.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780262542685

Publisher: MIT Press Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 December 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: MIT Press

Illustration: 37 black and white photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 212

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Arts & Culture Daniela K. Rosner Non-Fiction Penguin Books

About the Author

Daniela K. Rosner is Assistant Professor in Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington, where she codirects HCDE's Tactile and Tactical Design Lab.