I prefer not to: Anti-progressive designing

Tonkinwise, C

I prefer not to: Anti-progressive designing

Tonkinwise, C

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Citation:: Undesign: Critical Practices at the Intersection of Art and Design, 2018, pp. 74 - 84
Issue Date:: 2018-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Tonkinwise, C https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9006-7772	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Undesign: Critical Practices at the Intersection of Art and Design, 2018, pp. 74 - 84	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781138695702	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/133780
dc.description.abstract	© 2019 selection and editorial matter, Gretchen Coombs, Andrew McNamara, Gavin Sade; individual chapters, the contributors. Though designing is cast as a creative practice, materializing preferable ways of being, it does so only by destroying current products, habits and values. I argue that designers must learn to acknowledge and take responsibility for this destructive side to their practice. Designers can cultivate their destructive capacities and deploy those against all that is unsustainable about current societies. However, to do so also entails challenging prevalent notions that what is preferable is progress, advancement beyond how things were done before. Instead, I argue that the most creatively destructive thing designers can do is work to restore previous, more sustainable ways of living and working	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Undesign: Critical Practices at the Intersection of Art and Design	en_US
dc.title	I prefer not to: Anti-progressive designing	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design
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pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US

Abstract:

© 2019 selection and editorial matter, Gretchen Coombs, Andrew McNamara, Gavin Sade; individual chapters, the contributors. Though designing is cast as a creative practice, materializing preferable ways of being, it does so only by destroying current products, habits and values. I argue that designers must learn to acknowledge and take responsibility for this destructive side to their practice. Designers can cultivate their destructive capacities and deploy those against all that is unsustainable about current societies. However, to do so also entails challenging prevalent notions that what is preferable is progress, advancement beyond how things were done before. Instead, I argue that the most creatively destructive thing designers can do is work to restore previous, more sustainable ways of living and working

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