UID:
almahu_9949464615902882
Format:
1 online resource (135 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9781003281443
,
1003281443
,
9781000838046
,
1000838048
,
100083803X
,
9781000838039
Content:
"Designers are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world. Similarly, codesign tends to be described as a democratic mode of creativity that is somehow beyond reproach. But is change a virtue in itself, and do participatory practices always produce socially beneficial outcomes? Such questions are becoming more pressing as codesign has emerged as a dominant practice in planning and urban design, while also informing corporate management and public administration. In this book, Otto von Busch and Karl Palmås suggest that designers tend to over-emphasise the place of ideals in design, leaving them ill-equipped to deal with a social world of power-wielding and zero-sum games. Seeking to re-orient the concerns of the Scandinavian tradition of participatory design, they suggest that co-design processes are rife with betrayals, decay and corruption, and that designerly empathy has morphed into a new form of cunning statecraft. In putting forward Realdesign as an alternative conception of design practice, von Busch and Palmås ask: What hard lessons about the social must today's designers learn from realists like Machiavelli?"--
Note:
Introduction : the problems of participatory design -- The realist challenge : power and possibilities -- Betrayal : post-political participation -- Corruption : design and decay -- Cunning : mêtis and designerly statecraft -- Hypocrisy : of virtue and vice -- Closing propositions : after empathy, realdesign.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Busch, Otto von, 1975- Corruption of co-design New York : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9781032250007
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003281443
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003281443
