Design Studies

Mandatory literature

Politics

Levick-Parkin, Melanie., Stirling, E., Hanson, M., & Bateman, R. (2021). Beyond speculation: using speculative methods to surface ethics and positionality in design practice and pedagogy. Global Discourse, 11(1-2), 193-214.

Mattern, Shannon. (2020). Post-it note city. Places Journal. https://placesjournal.org/article/post-it-note-city/ (Links to an external site.)

Winner, Langdon. (1980). Do artifacts have politics? Daedalus, 109(1). 121-136. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652?origin=JSTOR-pdf

Economies

Boehnert, Joanna. (2019). “Anthropocene Economics and Design: Heterodox Economics for Design Transitions.” She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation 4 (4): 355–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2018.10.002

Reckwitz, Andreas. (2017). The Invention of Creativity: Modern Society and the Culture of the New. Cambridge: Polity Press. (Only chapter 4: “The Rise of the Aesthetic Economy: Permanent Innovation, Creative Industries and the Design Economy”, pp. 85–126.)

Julier, Guy. (2021). “The Promise of the Creative Industries, Design Work and Livelihoods.” Form Follows Finance. January 27. https://parole.cc/compendiums/form-follows-finance/the-promise-of-the-creative-industries-design-work-and-livelihoods/

Environment

Anderson, Kayla. (2015). Ethics, ecology, and the future: Art and design face the Anthropocene. Leonardo, 48(4), 338-347.

Demos, T. J. (2016). Decolonizing Nature – Making the World Matter. In Decolonizing Nature. Sternberg Press, pp. 199-228.

Laurien, Thomas., Jönsson, Li., Lilja, Petra., Lindström, Kristina., Sandelin, Erik., Ståhl, Åsa. (2022). An Emerging Posthumanist Design Landscape. In: Herbrechter, S., Callus, I., Rossini, M., Grech, M., de Bruin-Molé, M., John Müller, C. (eds) Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42681-1_42-1

Materialities

Ahmed, Sara. (2019) What’s the Use? On the Uses of Use. Duke University Press

Ingold, Tim. (2009). The textility of making. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2010 (34). pp. 91–102.

Thorsnes, Tollef & Fredriksen, Biljana C. (2023). A heartbeat of an old oak: The emergence of embodied experimental metaphors as signs of human compassion with trees. In (Biljana C. Fredriksen & Per Ingvar Haukeland, red.), Crafting relationships with nature through creative practices Scandinavian University Press.

Recommended literature

Introduction – what is Design Studies

Clark, Hazel. & Brody, David. (2009). Design studies: a reader? General introduction pages 1-3, introduce you to the concept of Design studies.

Tonkinwise, Cameron. (2014) Design Studies—What Is it Good For?, Design and Culture, 6:1, 5-43, DOI: 10.2752/175470814X13823675225036

Sparke, Penny., & Fisher, F. (2016). The Routledge companion to design studies. Routledge. (E-book). Chapter 1. Introduction, pages 1-5 introduce you to the concept of Design studies.

Method

Lury, C., & Wakeford, N. (2012). Inventive Methods: The happening of the social (1st ed.). Oxford: Routledge. (E-book, available as full download)

Politics

Tunstall, E. D. (2020). Decolonizing design innovation: Design anthropology, critical anthropology, and indigenous knowledge. In Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice (pp. 232-250). Routledge

Verbeek P.P. (2008). Morality in Design: Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological Artifacts. In: Philosophy and Design. Springer

Environment

Engholm, I. (2023). Introduction: Being in the Making**.* In: Design for the New World: From Human Design to Planet Design*. 10–39.

Materialities

Olsson, Gertrud. (2023). The original room – in the making as a tool for understanding. Crafting relationships with nature through creative practices (red. Biljana C. Fredriksen och Per Ingvar Haukeland), Scandinavian University Press.

Wrapping up - engaging through a critical stance

Bardzell, Jeffrey. & Bardzell, Shaowen. (2013). What is "critical" about critical design? In Proceedings of

the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA, (3297–

3306). https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2466451

Latour, Bruno. (2004). Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern. Critical Inquiry, 30(2), (225–248).

Olander, S. (2016). Post-Critical Potentials in Experimental Co-Design. In: Lloyd, P. & Bohemia, E. (eds.). Future Focused Thinking - DRS International Conference 2016. 27–⁠30 Jun. Brighton, UK.

Other optional reads

De Jong, C. W., Klemp, K., Mattie, E., & Goodwin, D. (2017). Ten Principles for Good Design:

Dieter Rams: The Jorrit Maan Collection. Munich: Prestel

Donia, J., & Shaw, J. (2021). Ethics and values in design: A structured review and theoretical

critique. Science and engineering ethics, 27(5), 1-32.

Introna, L. D. (2009). Ethics and the speaking of things. Theory, Culture & Society, 26(4), 25-46.

Kelly. J. (2019) Towards ethical principles for participatory design practice, CoDesign, 15:4, 329-344, DOI: 10.1080/15710882.2018.1502324.

Papanek, Victor., & Fuller, R. B. (1972). Design for the real world. London: Thames & Hudson.