What Design Cannot Do by Silvio Lorusso (Author) and Haruki Makio (Translator)

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Publisher: BNN (November 20, 2024)
Release date: November 20, 2024
Hardcover: 352 pages
Dimensions: 21 x 13.6 x 3 cm

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Specification If you've ever felt let down by design, this book is for you.

A historical investigation that unravels the widespread illusions and disillusionments surrounding design: Has design been "reinvented"? This is the long-awaited Japanese translation of a book that caused a big stir in the design studies community.

Design is broken. Young designers, and not-so-young designers alike, are increasingly realizing this. Many feel powerless, thinking they can use their tools to make the world a better place, only to find it tormented by it. Behind the smokescreen of hype and bold claims lies a wasteland of self-doubt and burnout -- a feeling that may be normal for millennials, but is reinforced by design culture.

This book delves into themes such as the deconstruction of expertise caused by digital semi-automation, examples of decorative politics created to please museums and educational institutions, and the vague promises of design schools, unravelling the history of disillusionment with design through the discourse of a variety of experts, while also addressing the anti-design rhetoric that is prevalent in contemporary memes and social media.

Design is a magic that has been held in high esteem for being able to "change the world," but has it really changed the world for the better? If design has become everyone's, has the position and role of designers changed? This book surveys the ever-expanding field of design, examines the frustrations designers face, and explores the pure possibilities of design.

【table of contents】
Prologue: Starter Pack

Chapter 1 | The Middle Class

~ Part 1: Expectations ~
Chapter 2 | Everything Everyone All at Once: Design Panism
Chapter 3 | The complex relationship between integration and autonomy
Chapter 4 | Flipping the Table: Power and Powerlessness

~ Part 2: Reality ~
Chapter 5 | Form Follows Format: Semi-automation and Cultural Professionalism
Chapter 6 | Critique as a new difference: politics as decoration and identity as skill
Chapter 7 | School as a Real World: Aspirations and Compromises

Epilogue: Rage Quit

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