Thomas Fisher
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816698875
- eISBN:
- 9781452954264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816698875.003.0002
- Subject:
- Art, Design
This chapter explores the dilemmas we face from our disaggregation of the world, reflected in public policies and economic incentives that encourage us to take apart the world in order to analyse, ...
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This chapter explores the dilemmas we face from our disaggregation of the world, reflected in public policies and economic incentives that encourage us to take apart the world in order to analyse, understand, and ultimately control it. Design represents a contrary process of reintegrating the broken relations, dysfunctions, and misconnections by synthesizing our knowledge about the world into greater wholes. This chapter examines a set of strategies designers use to reconnect the disjointed reality around us, with an example of how well-designed technology can help us all do the same.Less
This chapter explores the dilemmas we face from our disaggregation of the world, reflected in public policies and economic incentives that encourage us to take apart the world in order to analyse, understand, and ultimately control it. Design represents a contrary process of reintegrating the broken relations, dysfunctions, and misconnections by synthesizing our knowledge about the world into greater wholes. This chapter examines a set of strategies designers use to reconnect the disjointed reality around us, with an example of how well-designed technology can help us all do the same.
