Julian Hanna
ABSTRACT
This manifesto marks the first anniversary of a project, Reconstrained Design, launched explicitly to challenge the state of design: its narrowing pathways, prevailing assumptions, and corporate agendas. Taking Our manifesto takes the form of a preamble which outlines the history of the manifesto genre and its origins in the historical avant-garde of a century ago, followed by a list of 12 tenets that put forward specific design challenges (each based on or challenging a thought-provoking quotation)., our manifestoWith this text we aims to pry open new discursive and imaginative spaces, to force new ideas into the public view, to promote engagement with politics, technology and other facets of everyday life, and to upset the status quo of design thinking. With this manifesto,It is written in an appropriately polemical style in order to, we take at its word the call to provocation. We hope this manifesto will establish our project's aims while encouraging important discussions between conference participants.
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- Reconstrained Design: A Manifesto
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