Freedom to Make: Radical Mundanity and its Anarchic Undertones in Female Making Practice

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 4
3. On Design, Research and Pudding: An Essayistic Introduction 7
4. Some Additional Remarks on Rigour and/or Relevance in Design Research 12
5. Situating Design in the Confluence of Playfulness, Ageing, and Social Transformation 17
6. Means of Digital Images 38
7. Freedom to Make: Radical Mundanity and its Anarchic Undertones in Female Making Practice 55
8. Following the Elephant-Nosed Fish: Making Things More Complicated as a Form of Resistance 82
9. The Epistemic Potential of Architectural Design: Investigating the Complex Problem of Urban Sustainability Through Spatial Practice 97
10. Co.Making – Design Participation in Transformation? An Experimental-Programmatic Research 112
11. Don’t Take out the Trash: Research Through Conceptual Designs in Design Education 131
12. Exceptional Futures vs. Exceptions to the Future: A Pataphysical Approach to Design Fiction 145
13. Utopia and Uchronia: A New Experimental Approach in Thinking about Time 171
14. Performative Dynamics in Designerly Economics 187
15. Cultural Stereotypes in Letter Forms in Public Space 206
16. Authors 235