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Journal Article
Editorial
2017
Overview
Cigdem Kaya Pazarbasi, in 'Contemporary Art and Critical Perspectives in Industrial Design Education', presents a case for, and case study of, the value of exposing industrial design students to selected critical art practices as a way of shifting their focus from how to design to what to design. From the other side, we hoped that critical thinkers from the humanities and social sciences would begin to realize that it is not sufficient to address questions of power, inequality, justice, ethics, the political and the like only at the level of institutional structures or of values, beliefs, attitudes, opinions and behavior as if such things were self-evident; that a wider range and greater number of critical thinkers would be able to recognize that the socio-political-cultural is never separate from prefigured and configured material and immaterial forms that have become increasingly directive of the possibilities of human existence - and here we are not talking just of professional design but of all forms of prefiguration across times and cultures that result in new or modified material or immaterial forms that endure in themselves and/or in their effects. 2 Returning to the engagement of design from within design that goes under labels such as design research, design studies and design history, this activity has expanded over the last decade with the proliferation of postgraduate study programs, this linked also to an imperative to publish imposed by the neo-liberal, managerialist mindset that dominates universities, which goes in the direction of breaking down intellectual work into measurable units amenable to monitoring and evaluating 'performance,' the quantifiable level of which has a huge effect on the funding of universities and the expansion or contraction of departments within them.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
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