...Design for the Real World<subtitle>But Which “World”? What “Design”? What “Real”?</subtitle> ...

... seamlessly traded places. This chapter focuses on two watershed events in the development of the postwar Japanese design movement: the World Design Conference (WoDeCo) held in Tokyo in 1960 and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The first proclaimed a set of professional ideals for modern Japanese design...

... transwar democracy economic rebuilding world design Olympics ...

... conceives the social formation. The Third World designates regions of the world held captive by imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism. The Third World is also a project of anticolonialism and antiracism and, more comprehensively, liberation from all forms of oppression and exploitation. Third World...

... The subjects of Third World studies are power and the oppressed masses of the Third World—Africa, Asia (and Oceania), and Latin America (and the Caribbean). The spatial designation marks areas of the world colonized by Europeans for some four hundred years. The Third World anticolonial...

... The subjects of Third World studies, the oppressed masses, are the peoples of the Third World: Africa, Asia (and Oceania), and Latin America (and the Caribbean). That spatial designation is not a national but a regional demarcation and is the area of the world colonized by Europe for some four...

... began to flourish in worlds designed with the well-being of others in mind. Cattails, charismatic birds, and a multitude of insects began interrupting human dreams and schemes. Final solutions to the problem of living with parasites failed in Palo Verde. Humans and parasites, who became paraselves...

... “Functional Specialization &lt;bar&gt; Modular Construction &lt;bar&gt; Object Orientation” suggests a transformation in the design, construction, and organization of systems. Taken to the extreme, it asks how a given system might transform the ways we imagine the world to function...

... and the world. The chapter begins and ends with collectives of women whose labor, organization, design collaborations, and building have lent form and infrastructure to Dadaab. Juxtaposing these spatial practices and mobile architectures gives a textured picture of Dadaab, in which design—as noun and verb...

...The Ontological Reorientation of Design ...