A1 Journal article (refereed)
Designing Dissensual Common Sense : Critical Art, Architecture, and Design in Jacques Rancière’s Political Thought (2021)
Lohtaja, A. (2021). Designing Dissensual Common Sense : Critical Art, Architecture, and Design in Jacques Rancière’s Political Thought. Design and Culture, 13(3), 305-324. https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2021.1966730
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Lohtaja, Aleksi
Journal or series: Design and Culture
ISSN: 1754-7075
eISSN: 1754-7083
Publication year: 2021
Publication date: 10/09/2021
Volume: 13
Issue number: 3
Pages range: 305-324
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication country: United Kingdom
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2021.1966730
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Partially open access channel
Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/77867
Abstract
How can design be socially engaged and politically efficient, as proposed by discourses labeled as critical design? This article introduces a conceptualization and historiography of politically charged design discourse based on philosopher Jacques Rancière’s work on the intersections of politics, aesthetics, and critical artistic practices. By focusing especially on Rancière’s reading of the genealogy of design from Ruskin to constructivism and the Bauhaus, the article aims to show that there is an important connection between design and politics present in Rancière’s thought. Rather than solely revealing the oppressive dimension embedded in designed forms, for Rancière, design is itself a profound process of aesthetical and sensorial reconfiguration of the way in which we perceive and articulate our communal existence in “the shared material world.” The article suggests that this connection is useful for examining the broader encounter of critical design with political theory.
Keywords: architecture; design (artistic creation); Arts and crafts movement; constructivism (art); functionalism; political character; political theory; critical theory; aesthetics
Free keywords: critical design; political design; Jacques Rancière
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Reporting Year: 2021
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