Discursive Design: Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things

by Bruce M Tharp, Bruce M. Tharp, Stephanie M Tharp

Book Overview

Exploring how design can be used for good--prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive social change.

Good design provides solutions to problems. It improves our buildings, medical equipment, clothing, and kitchen utensils, among other objects. But what if design could also improve societal problems by prompting positive ideological change? In this book, Bruce and Stephanie Tharp survey recent critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262546558
• ISBN13: 9780262546553
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher