DESIGN STUDIES BLOG
As practitioners of design studies we are forced to not only push harder, but also question what else design has the potential to be and do.
Materials shape and structure the made world. But, while materials possess this aura of primacy, what often goes unobserved, is that materials...
The topic of performance is broadly defined in this work, encompassing interpretations relating to live arts, social and political performance.
Conflict Kitchen, a project by designer and artist Jon Rubin and architect Dawn Weleski, aims to use the social relationship of food and...
In order to meaningfully move towards enhancing people’s work lives, we must first reassess notions of productivity and efficiency.
A series of graphic images defining design terms
Although embedded in a singular historical context, considering the position of industrial design in mid-century Yugoslavia might help...
Smart phones, smart cars, even smart homes and cities are presenting new ways of imagining politics.
Pills as a class of material “things” have lives of their own. They are uniquely able to reshape and regulate what it means to be human.