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Design discourses of transformation

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posted on 2022-04-01, 10:51 authored by Sharon PrendevilleSharon Prendeville, Mikko KoriaMikko Koria
The aim of this article is to develop knowledge and understanding that supports critical conceptual interventions in design innovation theory and practice. Existing discourses of design are dissonant and paradoxical, for example positioning design as at once value-free and virtuous. We explain various instances of dissonance by establishing relationships between modes of design, design discourses, and knowledge systems. We map and interpret four design discourses, revealing the plural, dynamic, and mutable nature they share. Our understanding of design in the context of social transformation varies according to how we relate to knowledge systems, how these are produced through discourses, and how the two inform distinct modes of design. We argue that dominant discourses and entrenched knowledge systems must be consciously and actively upended. For this, we present a framework for transformative action to foster encounters across discourses and engender new critical expressions of and interventions in design theory and practice.

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School

  • Loughborough University London

Published in

She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation

Volume

8

Issue

1

Pages

65 - 92

Publisher

Elsevier

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© The Authors

Publisher statement

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Elsevier under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2022-01-12

Publication date

2022-03-31

Copyright date

2022

ISSN

2405-8726

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Sharon Prendeville. Deposit date: 31 March 2022

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