In Adversarial Design, Carl DiSalvo examines the ways that technology design can provoke and engage the political. He describes a practice, which he terms "adversarial design," that
In Adversarial Design, Carl DiSalvo examines the ways thattechnology design can provoke and engage the political. He describes a practice, which he terms"adversarial design," that uses the means and
Through practices of collaborative imagination and making, or "doing design otherwise,” design experiments can contribute to keeping local democracies vibrant.In this counterpoint to the grand narratives of design punditry, Carl DiSalvo presents what he calls “doing design otherwise.” Arguing that democracy requires constant renewal and care, he shows how designers can supply novel contributions to local democracy by drawing together theory and practice, making and reflection. The relentless pursuit of innovation, uncritical embrace of the new and novel, and treatment of all things as design problems, says DiSalvo, can lead to cultural imperialism. In Design as Democratic Inquiry, he recounts a series of projects that exemplify engaged design in practice. These experiments in practice-based research are grounded in collaborations with communities and institutions. The projects DiSalvo describes took place from 2014 to 2019 in Atlanta. Rather than presume that government, industry
Participatory Design is both a research method and an outcome, critical to many scholars of learning science but used outside the field. This volume brings together case studies from learning scientis
Participatory Design is both a research method and an outcome, critical to many scholars of learning science but used outside the field. This volume brings together case studies from learning scientis
