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Title Design collective : an approach to practice / edited by Harriet Edquist and Laurene Vaughan
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations
Contents Chapter 1 Design Collectives: More Than the Sum of their Parts / Laurene Vaughan Vaughan, Laurene 8 -- Sharing -- Shared experiences -- Shared yet distributed expertise -- Shared meaning -- Design collectives as ecologies of practice -- Chapter 2 Creaturely Collectives: Parametricism and Getting to the Afterparty / Pia Ednie-Brown Ednie-Brown, Pia 16 -- Collectivity -- Individuation and the Collective Life of Individual Things -- Style as Collective Individuation -- Parametricism -- Resonating at the Afterparty -- Chapter 3 Inscription as a Collective Practice: Taking Place and "The Other Side of Waiting" / Julia Dwyer Dwyer, Julia 35 -- taking place: A Loose Collective -- Tracing a Continuum of Feminist Spatial Practice -- The Other Side of Waiting: Inscriptions -- Inscription 1 Volant -- Inscription 2 Dear Ladies of the Club -- Inscription 3 Going and Corning Back -- Inscription 4 Circling -- Inscription 5 Comm.s -- Inscription 6 Communications -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Practicing Generosity: The Hospitality of Collective Space / Melanie Dodd Dodd, Melanie 54 -- Chapter 5 E1027: From Modernist House to Feminist Collective / Karen Burns Burns, Karen 68 -- Collectives: A Different Account of Agency -- E1027 -- Chapter 6 Play on Display: Videogame Collectives and Museum Culture / Helen Stuckey Stuckey, Helen 87 -- Introduction -- Gamers, Collective Intelligence and the New Knowledge Communities -- Community-Built Online Archives -- The Case of Sonic: Authoritative Audiences -- Hits of the Eighties and the Museum as a Graveyard of Dying Objects -- Intimacy and Agency -- Curatorial Challenges -- Chapter 7 Coming Back to Crochet: How Social Media Supports Handmade Design and Social Innovation / Angelina Russo Russo, Angelina 103 -- Introduction -- The Economics of Design Innovation -- Critical Making and Knowledge Exchange -- Passionate Practices -- DIY Citizenship and Ethical Practices -- Design Communities and Handmade Design -- Crafting Communities -- Design as Activism -- Social Innovation and Handmade Design Practices Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Legacy of Historical Design Collectives in Contemporary Experimental Design: A Case Study of Global Tools and Digestion by Matali Crasset / Katherine Moline Moline, Katherine 121 -- Introduction The Contribution of Design to Globalisation -- The Design Collective Global Tools and the Principles of Re-purposing and Co-creation -- Historical Returns and Spectrality -- Making Design Out of $2 Shop Remnants in Crasset's Digestion -- Re-purposing Products to Offset the Environmental Effects of the Globalised Waste Culture -- Expanding the Principles of Global Tools into a Wider Commercial Context -- Chapter 9 High Risk Dressing by the Collective known as the Fashion Design Council of Australia / Robyn Healy Healy, Robyn 141 -- Production of Fashion -- Catwalk Parade -- Nightclubs -- Critics -- Chapter 10 Collective Responsibility: The Public and the (UK) Council of Industrial Design in the 1940s -- Lesley Whitworth -- Inception of the Council of Industrial Design -- SC Leslie, the Council's First Director -- The Council's Early Agenda -- Parallel Developments: The Utility Scheme -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11 Earthworks and Beyond / Jess Berry Berry, Jess 182 -- Introduction -- Earthworks Poster Collective: another social reality for the good of the community -- Beyond Earthworks: Queensland Collectives 1979-1989 -- Inkahoots: Commercial Reality and the Community -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12 Collective Identities / Marius Foley Foley, Marius 198 -- Backyard Press -- Building a Culture -- Collective motives -- Champion Books -- Co-creation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 13 Creative Ecologies: Flying Nun Records 1981-1997, Xpressway 1988-1993 / Sian O'Gorman O'Gorman, Sian 221 -- Introduction -- Creative Ecologies -- Background -- Keystone Species Diversity Locality Co-evolution System Conclusion
Summary The rise of social networking and open-source technology, the return of community-focussed activities (e.g. gardens, knitting groups, food cooperatives) and creative collectives across the fields of design and the visual arts have reawakened the discourse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-262) and index
Notes English
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Subject Art and society.
Design -- Social aspects
Artistic collaboration.
Industrial design -- Social aspects.
Individual designers.
Social & cultural history.
Employee-ownership & co-operatives.
ART -- Popular Culture.
Art and society
Artistic collaboration
Design -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Edquist, Harriet
Vaughan, Laurene
ISBN 1443844578
9781443844574