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Understanding Suicide and Assisted Dying – Why Is ‘Design for Death’ Tricky?

Lorraine Gamman

Lorraine Gamman is Professor of Design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Tricky Design : The Ethics of Things

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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... about how to design for death (Gamman and Gunasekera 2015). In a similar way, the social design research team in Hong Kong led by Yanki Lee, the Fine Dying project, used participatory/critical design methods to engage communities to codesign...

Conclusion: Design’s Tricky Future

Lorraine Gamman

Lorraine Gamman is Professor of Design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Tricky Design : The Ethics of Things

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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... as discussion of the (iii) potential of design to help address tricky policy issues (by Gamman, Gunasekera and Kidwell, Kimbell and Thorpe) signal new design approaches and agendas. All the chapters therefore engage with the shared understanding...

Trickery in Civic Design: Co-optation, Subversion and Politics

Nidhi Srinivas

Nidhi Srinivas

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Eduardo Staszowski

Eduardo Staszowski

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Tricky Design : The Ethics of Things

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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...The views expressed here of the authors may not fully reflect the positions of our project partners, community groups or the official positions or policies of the City of New York or the New York City agencies discussed in this chapter. All...

Guns and Morality: Mediation, Agency and Responsibility

Tim Dant

Tim Dant

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Tricky Design : The Ethics of Things

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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...Introduction There are three reasons why guns are interesting as a class of material objects with a distinctive moral significance. The first is the unusually limited purposes of guns as objects that can be drawn into the momentary...

‘Tricky Like a Leprechaun’ – Navigating the Paradoxes of Public Service Innovation in the Context of Austerity

Adam Thorpe

Adam Thorpe

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Tricky Design : The Ethics of Things

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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... for a situation over which they only have a contributory agency. Recognizing the designer’s role in this scenario as that of the socially responsive designer, we are able to mobilize understandings discussed elsewhere (Gamman and Thorpe 2006,...

Making ‘Safety’, Making Freedom: Problem-Setting, Collaborative Design and Contested Futures

Shana Agid

Shana Agid

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Tricky Design : The Ethics of Things

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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...The point of departure of the movement lies in the people themselves …. Accordingly, the point of departure must always be with [people] in the ‘here and now’, which constitutes the situation within which they are submerged, from which...

The Quest for Purity, ‘Clean’ Design and a New Ethics of ‘Dirty Design’

Jeremy Kidwell

Jeremy Kidwell

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Tricky Design : The Ethics of Things

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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...The contemporary designer is forced to grapple with an ever-increasing range of forces and agencies, which may be revealed or concealed in the design process. In this chapter, I analyse a cluster of design paradigms that hover around...

The Nature of ‘Obligation’ in Doing Design with Communities: Participation, Politics and Care

Ann Light

Ann Light

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Tricky Design : The Ethics of Things

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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...This chapter examines the commitments that designers and design researchers make – or perhaps ignore or neglect – when they embark on work in the unbounded field of designing with and for communities. This work is growing in prominence...

Designers and Brokers of the Mobility Regime

Mahmoud Keshavarz

Mahmoud Keshavarz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Engaging Vulnerability Research Program, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University, Sweden. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Tricky Design : The Ethics of Things

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...Despite the promise of globalization in free movement of ideas, things, capital and bodies, globalization in practice has resulted in one of the most hardened and intensive periods of bordering and regulating of movement in the history...

Introduction: Ways of Thinking Tricky Design

Tom Fisher

Tom Fisher is Professor in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Lorraine Gamman

Lorraine Gamman is Professor of Design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Tricky Design : The Ethics of Things

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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... are temporary conditions of austerity, Lorraine Gamman and Pras Gunasekera discuss design’s potential to engage with the permanence of voluntary death: suicide; ethically tricky and potentially crushing in its effects on those left...