Description
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.
About the Author
Gui Bonsiepe studied information design at the hfg ulm (Hochschule fur Gestaltung Ulm), Germany from 1955-1959, where he taught as Assistant Professor from 1960-1968. Since 1968 he has been a designer and consultant for industrialization policy in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. From 1993-2003 he was Professor of Interface Design at the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany. He lives and works in Brazil and Argentina. Lara Penin is Associate Professor of Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons School of Design, USA. Author of An Introduction to Service Design: Designing the Invisible (Bloomsbury, 2018), her work is at the intersection of service and strategic design, participatory design and social justice. She is a graduate in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and has a PhD in Design from Milan Polytechnic University, Italy.
Reviews
Wielding a powerful dissenting design imagination, Gui Bonsiepe is one of the most complex and accomplished design thinkers of our time. As this judiciously organized collection of his writings and projects demonstrates, beginning with his work in Ulm in the 1960s and then in Latin America after 1970, and continuing through to his pioneering development of ontological interface design in the 1990s through to his more recent critiques of "design thinking", The Disobedience of Design offers perspectives that challenge, radically, the limitations of contemporary European and American design practice and theory. -- Arturo Escobar, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, USA
Book Information
ISBN 9781350162440
Author Lara Penin
Format Paperback
Page Count 480
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC