Adversarial Design

Carl DiSalvo (Associate Professor, The Georgia Institute of Technology)

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MIT Press
21 August 2015

Industrial: Commercial Art & Design

Series: Design Thinking, Design Theory

An exploration of the political qualities of technology design, as seen in projects that span art, computer science, and consumer products.

In Adversarial Design, Carl DiSalvo examines the ways that technology design can provoke and engage the political. He describes a practice, which he terms ""adversarial design,"" that uses the means and forms of design to challenge beliefs, values, and what is taken to be fact. It is not simply applying design to politics-attempting to improve governance for example, by redesigning ballots and polling places; it is implicitly contestational and strives to question conventional approaches to political issues.

DiSalvo explores the political qualities and potentials of design by examining a series of projects that span design and art, engineering and computer science, agitprop and consumer products. He views these projects-which include computational visualizations of networks of power and influence, therapy robots that shape sociability, and everyday objects embedded with microchips that enable users to circumvent surveillance-through the lens of agonism, a political theory that emphasizes contention as foundational to democracy. DiSalvo's illuminating analysis aims to provide design criticism with a new approach for thinking about the relationship between forms of political expression, computation as a medium, and the processes and products of design.

By: Carl DiSalvo (Associate Professor The Georgia Institute of Technology)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780262528221
ISBN 10: 0262528223
Series: Design Thinking, Design Theory
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 21 August 2015
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carl DiSalvo is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology.