... design profession trade journals design discourse design criticism ...

... The construction of a new social status for design was not a coincidental development. Designers and design critics who sought aesthetic and social legitimacy for the profession consciously and aggressively forged it. Japanese design critics such as Hamada Masuji and Murota Kurazo were...

... Despite the musical and lyrical eclecticism, innovative formal designs, and unconventional recording and production techniques of the Grateful Dead’s earliest studio albums, many fans and critics were skeptical that the Dead were capable of capturing the energy of their live concerts on record...

... education, from its inception, was designed for the elites and, later, the white masses to inculcate conformity to social norms. Enslaved African Americans were largely denied learning, and US education for Native, African, and Asian Americans and Latinxs featured segregated, inferior schools...

... of power, then syntheses can mitigate that design. Third World studies can embrace elements of feminist and queer theories, (post-1968) ethnic studies, critical theory, and poststructuralism to find common ground for discursive and material solidarities. Liberation is not a destination but a direction...

... designations of surplus life. Reopening the question of what infrastructures have been reproduced in the name of governing fertility, the coda puts forward the alternative concept of distributed reproduction, a concept that stretches beyond bodies to critically investigate the extensive relations that support...

... gaming cultures. It features the designers Robert Yang (creator of Radiator 2 ), Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky, creator of Dominique Pamplemousse ), Rachel Li (creator of Hot Pot for One ), and Marina Ayano Kittaka (cocreator of Even the Ocean ). These thinkers reflect on games as opportunities...

... Listening to Image s designates a method of recalibrating vernacular photographs as quiet practices that give us access to affective registers through which images enunciate alternate accounts of their subjects. Focusing on forms of refusal visualized through images, the book uses...

... depictions of New World slavery and its afterlives, this chapter pursues two critical objectives: 1) to illuminate the ways in which dissonant, evocative sound registers the affective dimensions of black experience, while complicating racial epistemologies and conventional narratives of racial harm, and 2...

... methodology to explore space and address community issues. The chapter analyzes examples from the project sites in Canada, Northern Ireland, and Australia, as well as examples from the online components of the project, to show how improvisation shaped both the planning and design of the project and changed...

... as well as techniques, on how to approach them, from social annotation to critical book reviews. teaching online periodization geography maps novels Semester-long assignments allow students to go deeper into Indian Ocean history, and this chapter focuses on four pedagogical elements...

... of historical evidence that, taken together with written works, texts, images, oral histories, and ethnographic accounts, offer insights into the ways in which competing groups built their presence into the city, forged affective ties, and harnessed authority through particular material regimes. Critical...

... Building on representations of indigenous women as vulnerable, a development category of “indigenous women” from the 1990s sought to make them political leaders, make them statistically knowable, and equip them with self-esteem. The chapter examines this policy in light of critical accounts...

... of these autonomist movements is “the creativity of real men and women, of ordinary people, who are, in the end, those who make the revolution and are the ones who create the new worlds.” Rather than the “trap of the generalized designs for the ‘society as a whole’,” this post-Leninist paradigm understands that “what...

... components of the project, to show how improvisation shaped both the planning and design of the project and changed the artistic and social outcomes. Framed in Lefebvrean spatiality theory, critical studies in improvisation, and recent scholarship in community engaged performance, the author argues...

...Interrogating the Civil Society Agenda<subtitle>Reflections on Brazil</subtitle> This essay critically engages the apparent paradox of the adoption of participation by mainstream institutions. It offers a genealogy of participation and participatory prescriptions in Brazil, beginning...

... in non-Western languages that are available in translation, many of which date to before 1500 CE. These include Arabic and Malay chronicles, Arab and Persian travelers’ accounts, and various sources in Chinese. While all primary sources must be read critically, these open important pathways...

..., on how to approach them, from social annotation to critical book reviews. teaching online periodization geography maps novels ...

...Localizing Empire This roundtable begins part 3 of the collection, “Localizing Empire,” by expanding on the issues of the body from the previous section, to consider space and regional histories. The roundtable features a conversation among designers who work and/or focus on “non-American...