(Designing) Beyond the Modern

(Designing) Beyond the Modern, a superb work whose authors abandon academic comfort towards a beyonding disciplinary era. A book that uses the multiple crises of modernity and its offspring, Design, to vitalize rationality with relationality, opening the field to its exteriorities and to the fluid entry of othernesses. * Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero, Associate Professor of Product Design, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University of Bogotá, Colombia *
What surprised me most about this book was how it “thinks” beyond Design. Its argument might be wrapped around a shift from Design to designing, but its breadth of vision and its broader value rest on the way it helps plot a way forward beyond the Modern. This should be a clarion call for all disciplines. * Michael Dutton, Professor of Politics (Emeritus), Goldsmiths, University of London, UK *
(Designing) Beyond the Modern takes seriously the need to unlearn dominant narratives. It turns toward movements of refusal and regeneration, drawing attention to ways of knowing long marginalized by modern regimes of thought and practice. * Zoy Anastassakis, Associate Professor at Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI), Brazil *
In these darkening times it is vitally important that the normality of modernity’s promise of progress is “made strange” and that design’s implication in the destruction of the non-modern is exposed and resisted. This book amplifies many voices, past and present, that contribute to the possibility of a futural (as opposed to defuturing) designing sensibility. * Anne-Marie Willis, Lecturer in Design Ethics and Design History at the University of Tasmania, Australia *