Bastard Design Practices
An Archaeological Perspective
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https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v2i2.28183Keywords:
design, pedagogy, media archaeology, design archaeologyAbstract
Design is a bastard practice, it is fundamentally detached from its own inherited ethos so as to appear progressive, virtuous and fashionable. Such abstinence from knowledge and past experience models a practice that advocates competition over communion – a renunciation of experience and sanction of illusory solutionism. The design discipline would benefit greatly from the principle ideologies of archeology, a practice which uncovers the past to inform the present and shape the future. It is proposed here that a practice of Design Archeology be installed into fundamental design practices to create responsibility in the agency of design. Are we all archaeologists? not quite yet.
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Huhtamo, E., ed. 2011. Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Tomes, A. and P. Armstrong. 2010. “Dialectics of Design: How Ideas of ‘Good Design’ Change.” Prometheus 28(1): 29–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08109021003694154
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2016-01-12
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Dyer, J. (2016). Bastard Design Practices: An Archaeological Perspective. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 2(2), 252-254. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v2i2.28183
