Disalvo, Carl

Design as Democratic Inquiry

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ISBN 13:: 9780262543460
author:: Disalvo, Carl
format:: Paperback / softback
publisher:: MIT Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2022
Pages:: 224
Dimensions:: 22.9 x 14.7 x 2 centimetres (0.3
Genre:: Nonfiction, Politics, Civics & Citizenship,
Condition:: New
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Design as Democratic Inquiry: Putting Experimental Civics into Practice by Carl DiSalvo explores how design can be used to care for our collective future. By working with communities and institutions, DiSalvo shows that designers can contribute to vibrant local democracies through collaborative imagination and making. DiSalvo argues that democracy requires constant renewal and care, and that designing becomes a way to care together for the world we live in. He presents projects from 2014 to 2019 in Atlanta as examples of engaged design in practice, where residents and local organizations were already creative and resourceful. By embracing design as fragile, contingent, partial, and compromised, DiSalvo explores how it can facilitate a more diverse civic imagination. Through his work, DiSalvo challenges the idea that innovation must be heroic or uncritical, and instead shows how design can be a mode of inquiry that leverages community creativity and resourcefulness.

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