{"product_id":"discursive-design-isbn-9780262546553","title":"Discursive Design","description":"\u003cb\u003eExploring how design can be used for good—prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive social change.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGood 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscursive Design\u003c\/i\u003e 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. They not only offer social criticism but also explore how objects can, for example, be used by counselors in therapy sessions, by town councils to facilitate a pre-vote discussions, by activists seeking engagement, and by institutions and industry to better understand the values, beliefs, and attitudes of those whom they serve. Discursive design sparks new ways of thinking, and it is only through new thinking that our sociocultural futures can change.Series Foreword viii\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xii\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Discursive Design: In Theory\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eBackground\u003cbr\u003eFoundation\u003cbr\u003eTheorizing Practice\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Discursive Design: In Practice\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eDiscursive Designing: Nine Facets\u003cbr\u003eCase Studies\u003cbr\u003eGlossary 545\u003cbr\u003eInterviewees and Interlocutors 557\u003cbr\u003eImage Credits 561\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 581\u003cbr\u003eIndex 603Bruce Tharp runs the Chicago-based design studio Materious, established in 2005, with Stephanie Tharp. They have done work for such companies as Ligne Roset, Möet-Hennessy, The Art Institute of Chicago, Crate \u0026amp; Barrel, and Kikkerland. He is Associate Professor in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art \u0026amp; Design at the University of Michigan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephanie Tharp runs the Chicago-based design studio Materious, established in 2005, with Bruce Tharp. They have done work for such companies as Ligne Roset, Möet-Hennessy, The Art Institute of Chicago, Crate \u0026amp; Barrel, and Kikkerland. She is Associate Professor in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art \u0026amp; Design at the University of Michigan.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305031258341,"sku":"NP9780262546553","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262546553.jpg?v=1767725188","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/discursive-design-isbn-9780262546553","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}