Description
| Product ID: | 9781032250014 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Corruption of Co-Design |
| Subtitle: | Political and Social Conflicts in Participatory Design Thinking |
| Authors: | Author: Karl Palmas, Otto von Busch |
| Page Count: | 136 |
| Subjects: | Development studies, Development studies, Urban communities, Economics, Manufacturing industries, Human geography, The environment, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Technical design, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Urban communities, Economics, Manufacturing industries, Human geography, The environment, Urban & municipal planning, Technical design, Environmental science, engineering & technology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Using the notion of "Realdesign", as a parallel to Realpolitik, the authors aim to highlight political, social and methodological obstacles when designers turn to design thinking, participation and "living labs", with the hope of changing the world for the better. Designers are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world. Similarly, co-design tends to be described as a democratic mode of creativity that is somehow beyond reproach. But is change a virtue in itself, and do participatory practices always produce socially beneficial outcomes? Such questions are becoming more pressing as co-design has emerged as a dominant practice in planning and urban design, while also informing corporate management and public administration. In this book, Otto von Busch and Karl Palmås suggest that designers tend to overemphasize the place of ideals in design, leaving them ill-equipped to deal with a social world of power-wielding and zero-sum games. Seeking to reorient the concerns of the Scandinavian tradition of participatory design, they suggest that co-design processes are rife with betrayals, decay, and corruption, and that designerly empathy has morphed into a new form of cunning statecraft. In putting forward Realdesign as an alternative conception of design practice, von Busch and Palmås ask: What hard lessons about the social must today’s designers learn from realists like Machiavelli? |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-02-01 |