Design and the Question of History

by Tony Fry and Clive Dilnot

Book Overview

Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of worlds within which the political, ethical and historical character of human being is at stake, this text demands radically transformed notions of both design and history. Above all,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857854771
• ISBN13: 9780857854773
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"