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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.
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Materials shape and structure the made world. But, while materials possess this aura of primacy, what often goes unobserved, is that materials...
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The topic of performance is broadly defined in this work, encompassing interpretations relating to live arts, social and political performance.
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Conflict Kitchen, a project by designer and artist Jon Rubin and architect Dawn Weleski, aims to use the social relationship of food and...
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In order to meaningfully move towards enhancing people’s work lives, we must first reassess notions of productivity and efficiency.
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A series of graphic images defining design terms
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Although embedded in a singular historical context, considering the position of industrial design in mid-century Yugoslavia might help...
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Smart phones, smart cars, even smart homes and cities are presenting new ways of imagining politics.
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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.