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Critical fabulations : reworking the methods and margins of design / Daniela K. Rosner.

By: Rosner, Daniela [author.].
Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Design thinking, design theory: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2018]Description: 1 PDF (216 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262346405.Subject(s): Industrial design | Design -- Philosophy | Design -- Philosophy | Industrial designGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Critical fabulations.DDC classification: 620/.0042 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.
Contents:
Intro; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Fabulate Design?; The Dominant Paradigm; Feminist Reworkings: The Personal Is Analytical; Exposing the Limits of the Design Canon; Theorizing Design as Critical Fabulations; Experiments in Form and Voice; The Road Ahead; 1 The Intellectual Foundations of the Dominant Design Paradigm; The Individualist Underpinnings of Dewey's American Pragmatism; Simon and the Cognitive Model; Solutionism and the Design Methodologists; A Cybernetic Universalism; The Turn to Design Practice; Probes and Critical Developments.
Limitations of the Dominant Paradigm2 Feminist Correctives in Design; Putting Political Consciousness at the Center of Intellectual Work; Embracing an Intellectual Heterodoxy; Attending to the Position of User and Inquirer; Unsettling the Human and Nonhuman Boundary; Critical Methodologists of Making and Doing; Inside-Out and Outside-In; 3 Encountering Critical Fabulations: A Personal Journey; From Field Trials to Tribulations; The Guild: Shifting Theoretical Concerns; Pulling Back the Theoretical Curtain; 4 Approaching Design as Critical Fabulations.
Summary: 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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Intro; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Fabulate Design?; The Dominant Paradigm; Feminist Reworkings: The Personal Is Analytical; Exposing the Limits of the Design Canon; Theorizing Design as Critical Fabulations; Experiments in Form and Voice; The Road Ahead; 1 The Intellectual Foundations of the Dominant Design Paradigm; The Individualist Underpinnings of Dewey's American Pragmatism; Simon and the Cognitive Model; Solutionism and the Design Methodologists; A Cybernetic Universalism; The Turn to Design Practice; Probes and Critical Developments.

Limitations of the Dominant Paradigm2 Feminist Correctives in Design; Putting Political Consciousness at the Center of Intellectual Work; Embracing an Intellectual Heterodoxy; Attending to the Position of User and Inquirer; Unsettling the Human and Nonhuman Boundary; Critical Methodologists of Making and Doing; Inside-Out and Outside-In; 3 Encountering Critical Fabulations: A Personal Journey; From Field Trials to Tribulations; The Guild: Shifting Theoretical Concerns; Pulling Back the Theoretical Curtain; 4 Approaching Design as Critical Fabulations.

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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.

Also available in print.

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