Design and the construction of publics

Design Issues

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 48-63

  DiSalvo, Carl ^a  

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BUILDING MATERIAL; URBAN DESIGN;

EID: 62549094832     PISSN: 07479360     EISSN: 15314790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/desi.2009.25.1.48     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (Athens, OH: Swallow Press Books, Henry Holt & Company, 1927).
2. The documentation for the exhibition Massive Change can be found online at www.massivechange.com, last referenced on November 26, 2007. A book, also entitled Massive Change, accompanied the exhibition.
3. See, Bruce Mau and Jennifer Leonard, Massive Change (London: Phaidon Press, 2004).
4. Natalie Jerimejenko's work has been widely recognized throughout the art, design, and engineering worlds. Her project Feral Robot Dogs was included in the 2006 Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial, Design Life Now, and is documented in the exhibition catalog curated and authored by Barbara Bloemink, Brooke Hodge, Ellen Lupton, and Matilda McQuaid, Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006 (New York: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2007). For an overview of Jerimejenko's work, see her Website at: www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign, last referenced on November 26, 2007.
5. Futurefarmers work has been recognized in numerous exhibitions, most notably in the 2003 Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial, Inside Design Now, and is documented in the exhibition catalog curated and authored by Barbara Bloemink, Brooke Hodge, Ellen Lupton, and Matilda McQuaid, Inside Design Now: National Design Triennial 2003 (New York: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2004). For an overview of Futurefarmers work, see their Website at: futurefarmers.com, last referenced on November 26, 2007.
6. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005).
7. John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems, 15-16.
8. Ibid., 35.
9. Ibid., 126
10. Jason Corburn, Street Science (Cambridge: MA: MIT Press, 2005).
11. Ibid.
12. Jurgen Habermas, Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989).
13. (Mar Negt and Alexander Kluge, Public Sphere and Experience: Toward an Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
14. John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems, 131.
15. Ibid., 126
16. Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984).
17. For some, labeling these designerly means as tactics may seem to be a misuse of de Certeau's theory. Admittedly, these designerly means often are produced from within or in conjunction with institutions of power, thus conflicting with de Certeau.
18. Victor Margolin, "Design: The Future and the Human Spirit," Design Issues 23:3 (Summer 2007).
19. Ibid., 6.
20. See Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects (Basel: Birkhäuser Press, 2001)
21. and Anthony Dunne, Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, New Edition, 2006).
22. Excerpted from an interview with Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby by Regine Debatty for We-Make-Money-Not-Art. Available online at: www.we-make-money-not- art.com/archives/009389.php, last referenced on November 29, 2007.
23. John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems, 131.
24. Ibid., 131.
25. See Edward Tufte, Beautiful Evidence (Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 2006);
26. Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety 2 (Indianapolis, IN: Que Publishing, 2000);
27. Richard Buchanan, "Design and the New Rhetoric: Productive Arts in the Philosophy of Culture" in Philosophy and Rhetoric 34:3 (2001);
28. David Kaufer and Brian Butler, Rhetoric and the Arts of Design (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996);
29. and Anne Tyler, "Shaping Belief: The Role of Audience in Visual Communication," Designlssues 9:4(1992).
30. In 2004, a California school proposed using RFID to track students. For a general overview, see Kim Zetter, "School RFID Plan Gets an F" in WIRED [Website] February 10, 2005, available online at: www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2005/02/66554, referenced on December 13, 2007.
31. See the Zapped project Website at: www.zapped-it.net/, last referenced on November 28, 2007.
32. John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems, 126.
33. Ibid., 131.
34. Ibid.
35. John Dewey, Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1938).
36. Ibid., 104-105.
37. John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems, 126.
38. For example, see Jodi Forlizzi and Cherrie Lebbon, "From Formalism to Social Significance in Communication Design," Design Issues 18:4 (Autumn 2002).
39. For recent overviews of public art, see W. J. T. Mitchell, Art and the Public Sphere (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992)
40. and Tom Finkelpearl, Dialogues in Public Art (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001).
41. For a discussion of relational and dialogic aesthetics, see Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics (Paris: Les Presse Du Reel, 1998)
42. and Grant Kester, Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004).
43. John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems, 184.
44. For example, the Ecobot project at the University of Bristol Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory has developed a robot that is powered by dead flies, and another that is design to capture and subsist on slugs. For an overview, see the Ecobot project Website at: www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/Robots/slugbot. htm, last referenced on December 11, 2007.
45. For a popular overview of this position, see Gerald Jone, Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence (New York: Basic Books, 2003).
46. For more information on Design of the Times, see the project website at: www.dott07.com/, last referenced on December 11, 2007.