Name: Politics of Things
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ISBN: 9783035620566

In der Gegenwart lösen sich die Grenzen zwischen Natur und Kultur, Mensch und Maschine, Objekt und Subjekt zunehmend auf: Sind wir in dieser Ära der Verwicklung, in der die Dinge selbst mehr und mehr denken, lernen, vorhersagen und jede unserer Handlungen leiten, nicht zum Apparat von Apparaten geworden, die wir einmal selbst entworfen haben? Die Autoren analysieren durch den Ansatz einer praxisbasierten Designforschung die Machtverhältnisse in dieser "Politik der Dinge", indem sie die Routinen ihres eigenen Alltags durch Gestaltungsexperimente umkehren, verschieben und in Frage stellen. So werden die Forschenden selbst zum Erforschten und entwickeln dadurch doch zugleich kritische Perspektiven auf die Verhandlungsmacht von Menschen und Dingen in Zeiten einer ontologischen Krise.

In a state of ontological crisis, all boundaries have been ruptured between nature and culture, human and machine, and object and subject. We find ourselves exhaustively tackling the turmoil of our own designed circumstances, as we emerge to become extensions of the extensions that we built. In this practice-based design theory project, the authors share their experiments in negotiating power with things, hacking mundane objects, and thus their own everyday lives, allowing themselves to be swayed and misled, disrupted and called into question. The experiments delineate a mode of critical cultural inquiry where design and sociology collide to elicit critical perspectives on the ‘designer’ and the ‘designed’ as we act within an entangled politics of things.

product design; politics; design; design research; design theory; practice-based research

design; design research; design theory; practice-based research; product design; politics

A Critical Approach Through Design

Politics of Things

Michelle Christensen & Florian Conradi, Universität der Künste (UdK Berlin) / Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)

Michelle Christensen & Florian Conradi, University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) / Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)

<UL> <LI>Design als kritische Praxis </LI> <LI>Praxis-basierte Design-Theorie </LI></UL>

<UL> <LI>Political agency of things</LI> <LI>Design as critical praxis </LI> <LI>Praxis-based design theory </LI></UL> <UL> </UL>

The agency of thingsIn a state of ontological crisis, all boundaries have been ruptured between nature and culture, human and machine, and object and subject. We find ourselves exhaustively tackling the turmoil of our own designed circumstances, as we emerge to become extensions of the extensions that we built.  In this practice-based design theory project, the authors share their experiments in negotiating power with things, hacking mundane objects, and thus their own everyday lives, allowing themselves to be swayed and misled, disrupted and called into question.  The experiments delineate a mode of critical cultural inquiry where design and sociology collide to elicit critical perspectives on the ‘designer’ and the ‘designed’ as we act within an entangled politics of things.  Political agency of things Design as critical praxis  Praxis-based design theory    

The agency of thingsIn a state of ontological crisis, all boundaries have been ruptured between nature and culture, human and machine, and o

Politics of Things

A Critical Approach Through Design

Michelle Christensen, Florian Conradi

Volume in the series Board of International Research in Design