Ideas Arrangements Effects by DS4SI- Paperback Book
Ideas Arrangements Effects by DS4SI- Paperback Book
Ideas Arrangements Effects: Systems Thinking and Social Justice by Design Studio for Social Intervention. Published by Minor Compositions www.minorcompositions.info 2020. Price includes Massachusetts Sales Tax (+$1.25). For buyers outside the United States, you can order the book from our publisher’s site here. We ask that you limit your purchases to 20 books. Please email us at info@ds4si.org if you would like to order more than 20. Thank you!
Ideas are embedded in social arrangements, which in turn produce effects.
With this simple premise, this radically accessible systems design bookmakes a compelling case for arrangementsas a rich and overlooked terrain for social justice and world building. Unpacking how ideas like racism and sexism remain sturdy by embedding themselves in everything from physical and social infrastructure to everyday speech and thought habits, this book gives readers the tools to sense, intervene in and imagine new arrangements. Using diverse examples from their work and others, DS4SI offers readers a roadmap for using social interventions to invite the larger public into imagining and creating a more just and vibrant world.
“Throughout their work, DS4SI strives to enact the principle that design is not just about problem-solving within existing paradigms and social orders, it is about world building, about imagining and constructing new territories of life and difference… This is design’s imagination at its best, the grounds for a genuinely transformative design praxis. It is a route to disclosing new worlds and bringing them into existence.” – Arturo Escobar, author of Designing the Pluriverse
“As we face this dire moment of climate change, tyranny, mass extinction and international war on the global scale, and poverty, housing shortages, and stagnant wages at home, we need tools that we can use to address these problems, and it can’t be just the same old tools we’ve been using all along. This is where this excellent guide to ideas-arrangements-effects comes in.” – Mindy Thompson Fullilove, author of Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
Written by Design Studio for Social Intervention
Lori Lobenstine, Kenneth Bailey and Ayako Maruyama
Design and Layout with Lois Harada
Illustrations with Ayako Maruyama and Jeffrey Yoo Warren
Cover art by Judith Leemann
Much Gratitude to Matt Hern
Copyright © 2020 by DS4SI
ISBN 978-1-57027-368-1
Released by Minor Compositions 2020
Colchester / New York / Port Watson
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life.
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