{"product_id":"making-trouble-design-and-material-activism-9781350162549","title":"Making Trouble: Design and Material Activism","description":"Making hacks into reality. It engages matter in ways that trespass the boundaries between the civic realm and the state-assigned laws. Even with primitive tools and skills, designing and making can break open and repurpose arrangements of power. The proof is that some crafts are so controversial-lock-picking, moonshining, shoplifting, smuggling, sabotage-that they need to be controlled or even outlawed. When designers and makers touch on these contested realms, they run into trouble. This highly original book explores how the material power of design and making can challenge arrangements of agency and domination. Unpacking a series of conflicting cases-from illegal making to the strategic and civic use of crafts to manifest radical alternatives to the current order-it shows how designers and makers can use even basic tools to work towards more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOtto von Busch\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Integrated Design at Parsons School of Design, USA. He holds a PhD in design from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and was previously Professor of Textiles at Konstfack University, Sweden. He has published articles in \u003ci\u003eThe Design Journal, Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, Fashion Practice, CoDesign Journal, The Journal of Modern Craft, Textile Cloth and Culture, Craft Research, Organizational Aesthetics, Creative Industries Journal \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eJournal for Artistic Research, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehas contributed chapters on design activism to \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design (2017), The Routledge Companion to Design Research (2015), The Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion (2014), \u003c\/i\u003e as well as other design anthologies\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Visual Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50450016141586,"sku":"9781350162549","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b5b271cb-ef7e-43de-ba98-b1ba5e0c9fdc.jpg?v=1729748903","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/making-trouble-design-and-material-activism-9781350162549","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}