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Designing Everyday Life
In September 2014, eleven teams met at the BIO 50, the biennial’s twenty-fourth edition, to present projects that respond to topics ranging from affordable living to nanotourism. One project, for instance, suggests ways in which we might reclaim public space to encourage walking within urban areas. Another considers how a country’s rich craft tradition might be better brought to bear on contemporary design. Still another laments the disposability of modern appliances. A companion to the most recent Biennial, Designing Everyday Life compiles more than two hundred photographs, diagrams, and sketches, as well as essays on the history and legacy of the event and interviews with New York Times design critic Alice Rawsthorn and industrial designers Konstantin Grcic and Saša Maechtig.
544 pages | 1017 color plates, 184 halftones | 7 x 10 | © 2014
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Table of Contents
Foreword - Matevž Čelik
DESIGNING EVERYDAY LIFE
Testing the Everyday - Jan Boelen
Interview with Konstantin Grcic
Dreaming of Year Zero - Justin McGuirk
Interview with Thomas Lommée
Agonism, Democracy and Design - Chantal Mouffe
Interview with Liesbeth Huybrechts
Design as an Ideological State-Apparatus - Slavoj Žižek
Affordable Living
Knowing Food
Public Water Public Space
Walking the City
Hidden Crafts
The Fashion System
Hacking Households
Nanotourism
Engine Blocks
Observing Space
Designing Life
ANOTHER HISTORY
Interview with Saša J. Mächtig
Continuity and Change: The Biennial of (Industrial) Design over Fifty Years - Cvetka Požar
Interview with David Crowley
A Good Virus - Vera Sacchetti, Tamar Shafrir
Interview with Alice Rawsthorn
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