Provides for the first time in English a curated selection of the writings of the design thinker Gui Bonsiepe, representing his writings on the Ulm design school, on the relations of "core" and "periphery" and design as a tool for social and political change.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction by Lara Penin
Notes on the Making of the Book
Recognition and Acknowledgements by Gui Bonsiepe
Editorial Acknowledgements
Part 1: Thinking Designing
Introduction to Part 1 by Frederico Duarte
(a) Essays on ulm
1. 1 The Cartography of Modernity
1. 2 Science and Design
1. 3 The Relevance of the Ulm School of Design today
1. 4 The Invisible Aspects of the HfG Ulm
(b) Theory and Practice
1. 5 The Discomfort of Design Theory
1. 6 Arabesques of Rationality: Or the Splendor and Boredom of Design Methodology
1. 7 The Uneasy Relationship of Design and Design Research
(c) Design, Politics, Ethics
1. 8 Design, Nomadism and Politics: Interview with Alejandro Lazo Margain
1. 9 Design and Democracy
1. 10 Some Virtues of Design
Part II: Design in the "Periphery"
Introduction to Part II by Ethel Leon
(a) From Europe to South America
2. 1 Peripheral Vision & Design Empowerment: Interview with James Fathers
2. 2 Industrial Design in Chile 1971-1973: Interview with Hugo Palmarola
2. 3 The Ulm Model in the Periphery
2. 4 Industrialization Without Design
(b) Design in the "Periphery"
2. 5 History of Design in Latin America
2. 6 Aspects of Design in the Periphery
2. 7 Between Favela Chic and Autonomy: Design in Latin America
(c) The Question of Difference
2. 8 Between Marasmus and Hope
2. 9 The Environment in the North-South Conflict
2. 10 Identity and Counter-Identity of Design
Part III: Design, Visuality, Cognition
Introduction to Part III by Hugh Dubberly
(a) Design and Language
3. 1 Through Language to Design
3. 2 Design: from Material to Digital and Back
3. 3 Design as Tool for Cognitive Metabolism: From Knowledge Production to Knowledge Presentation
(b) Design/ Visuality/ Theory
3. 4 Visual/Verbal Rhetoric
3. 5 The Interface Design of Computer Programs
3. 6 Designing Information
3. 7 Visuality | Discursivity, or Design: The Blind spot of Theory, Theory: the Blind spot of Design
(c) Design and Crisis
3. 8 Design and Crisis
3. 9 Convergences / Divergences - Hannes Meyer and the HfG Ulm
3. 10 The Disobedience of Design
Part IV: Design and Development / Projects
Introduction to Part IV by Constantin Boym
(a) Design Policy/Design and Development
4. 1 Development Through Design, a Report for UNIDO, 1973
4. 2 Design and Development: The Debate with Victor Papanek
a. Gui Bonsiepe: Review of Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek
b. Victor Papanek: Reply to Bonsiepe's Review
4. 3 Design and Development 40 Years Later: Interview with Gabriel Patrocí nio and José Mauro Nunes
(b) Gui Bonsiepe: Selected Projects in Latin America
4. 4 Inexpensive Record Player, Chile, 1972
4. 5 Nutrition project: Spoon for Powdered Milk, Chile 1973
4. 6 Agriculture project, Chopper, Chile, 1973
4. 7 Consumer product: Air-conditioning, Argentina, 1980
4. 8 Two projects for Local Industry in Brazil, 1984-86
4. 9 Health Care Project: Needle for Blood Sampling, Brazil, 1986
(c) Case Study of Project Cybersyn, Chile
4. 10 (a) Opsroom: Interface of a Cybernetic Management Room
4. 10 (b) 'Socialism by Design' by Eden Medina
Afterword by Zoy Anastassakis & Marcos Martins
Appendices: Three Notes on the Closure of ulm (1968)
1. The Situation of the HfG
2. Communication & Power: A Marginal Note
3. Resolution of the Hochschule fü r Gestaltung, Ulm
Gui Bonsiepe: A Brief Biography
Contributors
Index
