Uta Brandes

Michael Erlhoff

Non Intentional Design defies all standards, is subversivley and beautiful and part of all cultures. The book shows, how people can modify very banal things due to creative use. NID deals with norms which are "abnormally" transformed - every day, everywhere, by everyone. It is about the use and the exploitation of objects already designed. Amazing, funny and inspiring things arise, and a totally new point of view on well known workaday things evolves.

Non Intentional Design

Philipp Heidkamp

Iris Utikal

In moving freely among the public and private spheres, design forces us to ask whether the distinction we still draw between them adequately describes our world today. The authors assembled in this volume - including, among others, Bazon Brock, Gesche Joost, Uta Brandes, and Luigi Blau - reflect on this question and provide a wide array of insights into its answer.

Perspektiven Fur Die Offentlichkeit : Perspectives for the Public

Designing Public

Eine Theorie des Designs muss, wenn sie nicht ideologisch daherkommen will, unabdingbar offen formuliert werden: widersprüchlich, provisorisch, provokativ, grenzenlos. Genau das gelingt diesem Buch, denn in durchaus wegweisender und exemplarischer Weise für einsichtiges Denken und Handeln unserer Zeit verweigert sich Design jeglicher Definition, Disziplinierung und Konformität, wehrt es sich gegen Eindeutigkeit und Zentralperspektive. Deshalb beschreibt Erlhoff unter sehr vielfältigen Aspekten die Komplexität von Design selber und dessen alltäglicher Durchdringung des Lebens. Dabei geht es um die Objekte und um deren Gebrauch ebenso wie um alte und neue Medien, um Argumente gegen Information und Kommunikation, um Gründe für die Gestaltung, um Illusionen und Einbildungen, um Materialität, Kaufverhalten, Dienstleistungen, Gebrauchsanleitungen und vieles mehr. Da alles gestaltet ist, ist eben auch alles Thema einer Theorie des Designs.

Theorie des Designs

Wolfgang Jonas

Design has long expressed and established itself as an independent research competence – a fact that also companies, institutions and politicians have come to acknowledge. What is still needed, however, is a stronger public platform for design to confidently reflect upon this process and to establish and communicate the specific innovative and experimental dimension of design research. For this reason, BIRD, the Board of International Research in Design, has developed the New Experimental Research in Design / NERD format. The edited conference contributions of twelve young researchers from all over the world provide an impressive and diverse and insightful range of intelligent and inspiring approaches in design research, giving rise to further debate and action in the rapidly evolving field.

NERD – New Experimental Research in Design

Maziar Rezai

Design affects all social contexts and is therefore intensively instrumentalized both by the politically powerful and their critics. Both functions of design, and their inevitable combination, are presented in this book in precise detail. Authors from various countries present previously unknown and innovative examples of democratic activities conducted through design. This publication is therefore aimed not only at design professionals but also at the general public of all countries.

Activist Thoughts and Examples for Political Empowerment

Design & Democracy

Timothy Marshall

This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorical foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it. 110 authors from Japan, Austria, England, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States, and elsewhere have written original articles for this design dictionary. Their cultural differences provide perspectives for a shared understanding of central design categories and communicating about design. The volume includes both the terms in use in current discussions, some of which are still relatively new, as well as classics of design discourse. A practical book, both scholarly and ideal for browsing and reading at leisure.

Michael Erlhoff

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