Everyday Acts of Design : Learning in a Time of Emergency

Marcos Martins

ISBN 10: 1350162396 / ISBN 13: 9781350162396

Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Okt 2022, 2022

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Neuware - From 2016-2018, teachers and students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil found themselves at the center of a crisis. A new right-wing government suspended payment of staff salaries and student scholarships and stopped funding basic maintenance. Everyday Acts of Design tells the story of how the university's design school reacted to the crisis: not with despondency or despair, but by promoting a series of radical teaching experiments.Working together, students, alumni, teachers, and staff embraced hope as a method, demonstrating that it is possible to find positive answers even in a situation of imminent collapse. The case histories narrated in the book provide alternatives to conventional forms of design teaching, but also prove that education can be a site for democracy and the practice of freedom. Deprived of the activity of creating for an imagined future, design can still assert a way forward through practices of making and experimenting. Drawing on their personal experience of designing and teaching design at a time of crisis, the authors assert the value of a design attitude which, in refusing to be delimited by the forethought of designing, insists on a radical, experimental practice as a means of survival.Although a multitude of voices, both assenting and dissenting, are present in the text, the authors do not hide their own position, making it clear that their stories are not a balanced mosaic of polyphonic positions. The contemporary attack on free public education, fueled by the growth of far-right regimes all over the globe, relies on a totalizing univocal conception of 'truth' as a means to shut down a plurality of thinking. Against this, this book adopts the partiality of historical and cultural truths as an urgent and explicit counter-attack. Adopting a consciously international approach,the authors connect and compare their own story with those of similar design teaching movements in the Global South, such as the Barefoot School in India, and ZIVA, founded by Saki Mafunkikwa in Zimbabwe.

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• Titolo: Everyday Acts of Design : Learning in a Time of Emergency
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Okt 2022
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1350162396
• ISBN 13: 9781350162396
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 197 L x 131 A x 19 P (millimetri) 197 millimetri di larghezza per 131 millimetri di altezza per 19 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 414 grammi

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Riassunto

A first-hand account of the radical design education strategies developed by teachers and students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro's design school, in the face of government attempts to shut down the university.

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Zoy Anastassakis is a designer and anthropologist. She is Associate Professor at Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she coordinates the research group Laboratorio de Design e Antropologia (Design and Anthropology Laboratory), and was Director from 2016 to 2018. In 2018, she was invited as a guest researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Since 2019, she has been an associate researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) in Lisbon, Portugal.

Marcos Martins is a designer and Associate Professor at Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he was Deputy Director from 2016 to 2018. His work as a designer ranges across several fields, and his research seeks to open design to intersections with other domains such as art, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis and education. Since his post-doctoral research at Princeton University, USA in 2018, he investigates social media interfaces through a historical and critical perspective.