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On the politics of design framing practices

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posted on 2022-07-07, 14:13 authored by Sharon PrendevilleSharon Prendeville, Pandora SyperekPandora Syperek, Laura Santamaria
In this conceptual paper, our aim is to deconstruct the conceptualization of design framing and establish its essentially political nature. The paper demonstrates the positionality inherent within frames insofar as frames articulate subordinated or dominant status, or express normative understandings until challenged. In doing so, we build a conceptualization of the political foundations of design framing practices and their implications for those contexts within which design operates. Consequently, we argue for dissensual counter-framing design practices that unsettle institutionalized norms and ideologies played out within frames, and through which a form of political agency is sociomaterially enacted.

Funding

Counter-framing design: Radical Design Practices for Sustainability and Social Change

Arts and Humanities Research Council

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History

School

  • Loughborough University London

Published in

Design Issues

Volume

38

Issue

3

Pages

71 - 84

Publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press)

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Publisher statement

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press) under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2021-12-07

Publication date

2022-07-01

Copyright date

2022

ISSN

0747-9360

eISSN

1531-4790

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Sharon Prendeville. Deposit date: 25 January 2022