RELATED TERMS: Design History; Modernity; Modernity and Coloniality; As noted in the Design History post, Lauren Williams (2019) posits an integral relationship among neoliberalism, design and racism in arguing that, “Racism and design have always supported capitalism, but as neoliberalization drives innovations on both, post-raciality and Design Thinking emerge, respectively, as new formations.” How canContinue reading “Design History and Racialisation [Footnote]”
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The Surface of Design – Ranciere [Footnotes]
RELATED TERMS: Deutscher Werkbund; Distribution of the Sensible – Ranciere; Worldlessness #2: Worldlessness and Design In the context of design practice, design theory and design history, the essay, ‘The Surface of Design’, by Jacques Ranciere is highly relevant. What interests Ranciere when he speaks of design is the way in which one sense of theContinue reading “The Surface of Design – Ranciere [Footnotes] “