Author(s): Frances Hsu
The paper historicizes new heterogeneous hybrid models of design research-practice emerging across Northern Europe in the decade following the 2008 global financial crisis. It explores how voices contesting key aspects of mainstream economic thinking have mediated architecture, technology, media, and the sciences (including but not limited to geography, policy) in response to socio-environmental crisis. Cultural relations of autonomy/contingency, aesthetics, and control across the design disciplines, sociology and critical theory are foundational to evaluating the practices of a plural, heterogeneous landscape of actors intersecting design, the professions, and academia. The paper is part of a larger research project on taxonomies of alternative productive practice operating between design and government. The first iteration of the project focuses on organizations in the Nordic cultural and geographical region that purposefully challenge the impact of libertarian economic systems on how the built environment is produced.
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978-1-944214-49-4