Description: Provides for the first time in English a curated selection of the writings of the design thinker Gui Bonsiepe, representing his writings on the Ulm design school, on the relations of "core" and "periphery" and design as a tool for social and political change.
Brief description: Lara Penin is Professor of Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons School of Design, USA. She is a co-founder of the Parsons DESIS Lab research laboratory, a former director of the Transdisciplinary Design graduate program and a co-lead of the Graduate Minor in Civic Service Design. Lara is the author of An Introduction to Service Design: Designing the Invisible (Bloomsbury, 2018), and editor of The Disobedience of Design Gui Bonsiepe (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Review Quotes:
"Wielding a powerful dissenting design imagination, Gui Bonsiepe is one of the most complex and accomplished design thinkers of our time. As this judiciously organized collection of his writings and projects demonstrates, beginning with his work in Ulm in the 1960s and then in Latin America after 1970, and continuing through to his pioneering development of ontological interface design in the 1990s through to his more recent critiques of "design thinking", The Disobedience of Design offers perspectives that challenge, radically, the limitations of contemporary European and American design practice and theory." --Arturo Escobar, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, USA
"The Disobedience of Design fulfills its aim as a provocation and aid to thinking, offering opportunities for interesting discussions about social, ethical, and political considerations about design." --Design and Culture "The most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume containing Bonsiepe's work currently available in any language." --Design Issues