Name: Not at Your Service
Brand: Birkhäuser
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ISBN: 9783035622751

Vielfältige Antworten auf die Frage, was Design heute sein und bewirken kann. Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design bündelt die unterschiedlichsten Facetten an Überzeugungen, Themen und Praxen von Designerinnen und Designern an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Die Publikation bietet vielfältige Antworten auf die Frage, was Design heute sein und bewirken kann. Kollaboratives Design, Interaktion in komplexen Systemen, die Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit, ökologischer Wandel, Visual Literacy, geschlechterneutrales Design, die schmutzige Praxis der Designethnografie, soziale Verantwortung, der Wert von Hässlichkeit, Death Futures, immersive Technologien, Identität und Krise, Design als Transformationsdisziplin – all dies sind Themen, die in diesem Lesebuch mit Leidenschaft, persönlicher Überzeugung und professioneller Expertise zur Debatte gestellt werden. <UL> <LI>Eine kompakte Sammlung von diskursiven Texten zu den vielfältigen Aufgaben von Design. </LI> <LI>Beiträge zur aktuellen Debatte über die gesellschaftliche Rolle von Design. </LI> <LI>Statements von Experten von einer der führenden Hochschulen für Design.</LI> <LI>Alle Texte sind auf Deutsch und Englisch.</LI></UL>

Multiple answers to the question of what design can be and achieve today. Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design brings together the broad spectrum of beliefs, subjects and practices of designers at Zurich University of the Arts. It offers different approaches and insights on the present-day role and impact of design. It is not conceived as a finished project, but as a fluid document of its time. Collaborative design, interaction within complex systems, attention economics, the ecological shift, visual literacy, gender-neutral design, "quick and dirty" design ethnography, social responsibility, the value of ugliness, death futures, immersive technologies, identity and crises, design as a transformative discipline – all of these topics are presented for debate with passion, conviction and professional expertise. <UL> <LI>A compact collection of discursive texts on the many roles and functions of design. </LI> <LI>Contributions to the current debate on the social role of design. </LI> <LI>Statements by experts from one of the leading universities of design. </LI> <LI>All texts are in German and English. </LI></UL>

Designtheorie; Designdiskurs; Design; Designethnografie; Björn Franke; Hansuli Matter; Offshore studio; Martin Zimper; Michael Krohn; Sarah Owens; Nicole Kind

Manifestos for Design

Not at Your Service

Björn Franke, Vertiefungsleiter MA Interaction Design ZHdK, Zürich. Hansuli Matter, Direktor Department Design ZHdK, Zürich.

The project Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design brings together a wide range of voices in order to illustrate the ways in which design mutates, infects unfamiliar territories and sometimes turns into an empty word devoid of meaning, but also to show how it can open up innovative, socially relevant and cross-disciplinary fields for sustainability, technological innovation and aesthetic practices, and have a positive effect on society.

Multiple answers to the question of what design can be and achieve today. Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design brings together the broad spectrum of beliefs, subjects and practices of designers at Zurich University of the Arts. It offers different approaches and insights on the present-day role and impact of design. It is not conceived as a finished project, but as a fluid document of its time.  Collaborative design, interaction within complex systems, attention economics, the ecological shift, visual literacy, gender-neutral design, "quick and dirty" design ethnography, social responsibility, the value of ugliness, death futures, immersive technologies, identity and crises, design as a transformative discipline – all of these topics are presented for debate with passion, conviction and professional expertise.   A compact collection of discursive texts on the many roles and functions of design.  Contributions to the current debate on the social role of design.  Statements by experts from one of the leading universities of design.  All texts are in German and English. 

Multiple answers to the question of what design can be and achieve today. Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design brings together the bro

Not at Your Service

Manifestos for Design

Edited by: Björn Franke, Hansuli Matter