De-signing Design

De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice throws new light on the terrain between theory and practice in transdisciplinary discourses of design and art. The collection brings together a selection of essays on spatiality, difference, cultural aesthetics, and identity in the expanded field of place-making and being.

Elizabeth Grierson is professor of art and philosophy at RMIT University. Harriet Edquist is professor of architectural history at RMIT University. Hélène Frichot is assistant professor of critical studies in architecture at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

De-Signing the City: Interventions through Art, Elizabeth GriersonTowards De-Signing: Narrative, Networks and the Open Work, Scott McQuireDesignations, Mark JacksonSigns of Postmemory in Dresden: Restoring the Displaced, Marsha BerryPosed Solitude: Signing a Poetics of Community, Maria O'Connor24 Hours Noticing: Designing our Encounters with Place, Laurene Vaughan and Yoko AkamaRepresenting the City: Complementing Science and Technology with Art, William CartwrightEmbodied Encounters: The Photographic Seeds of Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr's Ten Canoes, Linda DaleyMapping Modernity in "Marvellous Melbourne": Ada Cambridge's A Woman's Friendship, Harriet EdquistMapping an Ethico-Aesthetics for Wet Biotechnological Architectures, Hélène FrichotDigital Organic Design: Architecture, the New Biology and the Knowledge Economy, Karen BurnsDe-Signing as Bio-technological Endosymbiosis, Stephen LooDesign, Second Life and the Hyper Real, Lisa DethridgeHopeful: Biology, Architectural Design and Philosophy, Chris L. SmithDesign and New Materialism, Neil Leach