About the book
A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.
In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally situated, responsive and responsible. Challenging the field's dominant paradigms and reinterpreting its history, Rosner wants to change the way we historicize the practice, reworking it from the inside. Focusing on the development of computational systems, she takes on powerful narratives of innovation and technology shaped by the professional expertise that has become integral to the field's mounting status within the new industrial economy. To do so, she intervenes in legacies of design, expanding what is considered \"design\" to include long-silenced narratives of practice, and enhancing existing design methodologies based on these rediscovered inheritances. Drawing on discourses of feminist technoscience, she examines craftwork's contributions to computing innovation--how craftwork becomes hardware manufacturing, and how hardware manufacturing becomes craftwork.
Editions of Critical Fabulations
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780262037891
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780262542685
- EBook
- ISBN 9780262346399
- EBook
- ISBN 9780262346405
- EBook
- ISBN 9780262346412
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A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.
In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally situated, responsive and responsible. Challenging the field's dominant paradigms and reinterpreting its history, Rosner wants to change the way we historicize the practice, reworking it from the inside. Focusing on the development of computational systems, she takes on powerful narratives of innovation and technology shaped by the professional expertise that has become integral to the field's mounting status within the new industrial economy. To do so, she intervenes in legacies of design, expanding what is considered \"design\" to include long-silenced narratives of practice, and enhancing existing design methodologies based on these rediscovered inheritances. Drawing on discourses of feminist technoscience, she examines craftwork's contributions to computing innovation--how craftwork becomes hardware manufacturing, and how hardware manufacturing becomes craftwork.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Critical Fabulations about?
A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.
In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally situated, responsive and responsible. Challenging the field's dominant paradigms and reinterpreting its history, Rosner wants to change the way we historicize the practice, reworking it from the inside. Focusing on the development of computational systems, she takes on powerful narratives of innovation and technology shaped by the professional expertise that has become integral to the field's mounting status within the new industrial economy. To do so, she intervenes in legacies of design, expanding what is considered \"design\" to include long-silenced narratives of practice, and enhancing existing design methodologies based on these rediscovered inheritances. Drawing on discourses of feminist technoscience, she examines craftwork's contributions to computing innovation--how craftwork becomes hardware manufacturing, and how hardware manufacturing becomes craftwork.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Critical Fabulations?
The Arts > Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration
Where can I read a sample of Critical Fabulations?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780262037891
Is Critical Fabulations part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Design Thinking, Design Theory
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Critical Fabulations?
Daniela K Rosner
Who is the Publisher of the book Critical Fabulations?
MIT Press
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Critical Fabulations is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780262037891) and paperback(ISBN 9780262542685) and ebook(ISBN 9780262346399) and ebook(ISBN 9780262346405) and ebook(ISBN 9780262346412)
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