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Making Trouble
Design and Material Activism
Series: Designing in Dark Times
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This book is ideal for readers interested in the intersections of design, politics, and social activism, including scholars, makers, and activists seeking to explore creative resistance through craft and design.
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Making Trouble engages matter in ways that trespass the boundaries between the civic realm and the state-assigned laws. Even with primitive tools and skills, designing and making can break open and repurpose arrangements of power. The proof is that some crafts are so controversial—lock-picking, moonshining, shoplifting, smuggling, sabotage—that they need to be controlled or even outlawed.
When designers and makers touch on these contested realms, they run into trouble. This highly original book explores how the material power of design and making can challenge arrangements of agency and domination. Unpacking a series of conflicting cases—from illegal making to the strategic and civic use of crafts to manifest radical alternatives to the current order—it shows how designers and makers can use even basic tools to work towards more.
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Making Trouble is praised for profoundly reshaping perspectives on activism, design, and politics. Stellan Vinthagen hails it as a transformative work that urges readers to rethink their life and design practices. Victoria Hattam calls it a beautifully written and original intervention that is destined to be a classic in interdisciplinary scholarship and political activism.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350162549
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 March 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Illustration: 42 bw illus
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 124.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 280g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Otto von Busch is Associate Professor of Integrated Design at Parsons School of Design, USA. He holds a PhD in design from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and was previously Professor of Textiles at Konstfack University, Sweden. He has published articles in The Design Journal, Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, Fashion Practice, CoDesign Journal, The Journal of Modern Craft, Textile Cloth and Culture, Craft Research, Organizational Aesthetics, Creative Industries Journal and the Journal for Artistic Research, and has contributed chapters on design activism to The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design (2017), The Routledge Companion to Design Research (2015), The Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion (2014), as well as other design anthologies.
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