Dear Friends
The book by Tomas Maldonado is an example that comes to mid as one of the
finest insights into politics and design dating back to the 70's.
Design, Nature, and Revolution: Toward a Critical Ecology by Tomás
Maldonado (1972)
With warm regards
M P Ranjan
from my Mac at IICD Jaipur
9 August 2012 at 10.40 am IST
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On 9 August 2012 10:17, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Andre,
>
> Depends which field of design you are looking at. I'm guessing you are
> restricting your picture to the Art and Design fields.
>
> Other fields of design that have more obvious literatures that connect
> design activity to political outcomes are:
>
> Electoral system design;
> Design of Governments
> Political deliberation systems design
> Systems design (many fields)
> Political engineering
> Policy system design
> Development program design
> Policy design
> Legislation design
> Taxation system design
> Design of Social Change
> National Innovation Systems Design
> Community development design
> Social program design
> Design of socio-political change
> Socio-economic program design
> Engineer and Society literature
> Professional engineering literatures - many different fields
> Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) libraries
> Red Rock Eater and Phil Agre's other writings
>
> As well, of course, the large design-related literatures in the realm of
> STS
> (Science and Technology Studies)
>
> In each of these are examples of designs of interventions that resulted in
> rapid change.
>
> One stage back are the design research theories (many from AI design)
> underpinning the design of computerised systems enabling designers to
> design much faster and produce designs that are more reliable in their
> outcomes - which in turn has enabled better and faster design of radical
> interventions in social systems.
>
> Best wishes,
> Terry
> ==
> Dr Terence Love, FDRS, AMIMechE, PMACM, MISI
> PhD, B.A. (Hons) Eng, P.G.C.E
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related
> research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of André
> Liem
> Sent: Wednesday, 8 August 2012 5:08 PM
> To: Dr Terence Love
> Subject: Design and Politics
>
> Dear Collegues, Friends and Researchers,
>
> I am trying to find literature /articles about "Design and Politics". I am
> currently reading Tony Fry's book on "Design as Politics", but am looking
> fro more concrete / practical examples on how design has achieved to change
> certain aspects of societiesin a better and faster manner than political
> governance has managed to do so.
>
> Thanks and best wishes,
>
> Andre.
>
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