TRICKY DESIGN

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Lorraine Gamman is Professor of Design at Central Saint Martins (CSM) College of Arts and Design University of the Arts London (UAL) where she has taught design and contextual studies since 1989. She is also currently a Visiting Professor and Research Associate at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Australia. Gamman has published widely on visual culture and design including coauthored academic books articles and critical reviews. In her spare time from the day job (which is limited) she is currently writing a crime novel. It is set both in Old Hoxton where she was born (and still has many family connections) and todays New Hoxton a few miles down the road from Stoke Newington where she lives with her partner and daughter.Provides a fresh perspective on the cultural meanings of objects a hot topic in design and material culture.Several wellknown names from critical design studies and philosophy including Lorraine Gamman Cameron Tonkinwise Peter Paul Verbeek and Clive Dilnot.Tom Fisher is Professor in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University UK.Lorraine Gamman is Professor of Design at Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London UK.Tricky Design responds to the burgeoning of scholarly interest in the cultural meanings of objects by addressing the moral complexity of certain designed objects and systems. The volume brings together leading international designers scholars and critics to explore some of the ways in which the practice of design and its outcomes can have a dark side even when the intention is to design for the public good. Considering a range of designed objects and relationships including guns eyewear assisted suicide kits antirape devices passports and prisons the contributors offer a view of design as both progressive and problematic able to propose new material and human relationships yet also constrained by social norms and ideology. This contradictory tricky quality of design is explored in the editors introduction which positions the objects systems services and things discussed in the book in relation to the idea of the trickster that occurs in anthropological literature as well as in classical thought discussing design interventions that have positive and negative ethical consequences. These will include objects both material and immaterial systems with both local and global scope and also different processes of designing. This important new volume brings a fresh perspective to the complex nature of things and makes a truly original contribution to debates in design ethics design philosophy and material culture.Tricky Things addresses the cultural meanings and ethical dilemmas posed by certain designed objects exploring the ambiguity of notions of good design in relation to such objects as guns assisted suicide kits passports and antirape devices.Foreword Clive DilnotIntroduction Designs Tricky Ethics Tom Fisher and Lorraine Gamman Section One Tricky Thinging Chap

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