Full Description
A timely collection that shows how design can animate public space and catalyze democratic processes through vital discussion and public engagement.
"Design thinking" emphasizes the production of solutions after a period of research. By contrast, interrogative design focuses on activating the public sphere and enriching public discourse through the production of questions. A notable contribution to the fields of critical design and media art, interrogative design traces its development to Krzysztof Wodiczko and his 1990s public art projects, documented in the book Critical Vehicles. In Interrogative Design, Ian Wojtowicz showcases this lineage with new writing from Wodiczko and a host of contributions from diverse and influential practitioners, including Rosalyn Deutsche and Antoni Muntadas. This book highlights the dynamism of interrogative design as it is practiced today.
Never has the need for work that provokes thoughtful discourse been more necessary, and this volume catalogs both the need and potential viable techniques. A consolidated collection on the legacy and the vital currency of interrogative design, this volume will delight practitioners with new material and serve students as a practical handbook.
Contributors also include: Dora Apel, Dan Borelli, Harrell Fletcher, Pete Ho Ching Fung, Dana Gordon, Sara Hendren, Garnet Hertz, Sohin Hwang, Ekene Ijeoma, Marisa Morán Jahn, Mark Jarzombek, Jaekyung Jung, Sung Ho Kim, Jean-Baptiste Labrune, Pia Lindman, Ani Liu, Andrew Todd Marcus, Matthew Mazzotta, Alex Milton, Max Mollon, Mariana Morais, Antoni Muntadas, Gauri Nagpal, Maria Niro, Ginger Nolan, Robert Ochshorn, Adam Ostolski, Sofia Ponte, Gustavo Romeiro, Natalia Romik, Warren Sack, Kirk Savage, Nitin Sawhney, Sanjit Sethi, Samein Shamsher, James Shen, Carl Solander, Richard Streitmatter-Tran, Orkan Telhan, Bruce M. Tharp, Stephanie M. Tharp, Zenovia Toloudi, Marek Wasilewski, Lani Watson, Sampson Wong, and Ben Wood.
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
Interrogative Design - Krzysztof Wodiczko
Homeless Vehicle - Krzysztof Wodiczko
Origins of Homeless Vehicle - Dan Borelli and Krzysztof Wodiczko
Ethical Media Art: A Seminar - Warren Sack
The Interrogative Design Group - Sung Ho Kim
What Is Being Interrogated? - Rosalyn Deutsche and Krzysztof Wodiczko
Beyond Interrogative Design? - Krzysztof Wodiczko
2 When Is Design a Question?
What is a Question - Lani Watson
Reflect - Jaekyung Jung
Sound Interventions - Andrew Todd Marcus and Richard Streitmatter-Tran
Slope : Intercept - Sara Hendren
The Emancipati Ensemble - Orkan Telhan
When Is a Museum? - Pete Ho Ching Fung and Samein Shamsher
Museum Dissensus Instrument - Ian Wojtowicz
The Paradox of Contradiction - Dora Apel
3 Participation
The Inner Public - Krzysztof Wodiczko
Before Commodity There Was Care - Pia Lindman
4 Public Space
Building a Language on the Interrogative Form - Zenovia Toloudi
Obviously Hostile Design - Antoni Muntadas
Civic Stage - Frida Escobedo
Nomadic Mosque - Azra Akšamija
5 Theater
Alienation Effect - Berthold Brecht
On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide - Dread Scott
Bibliobandido - Marisa Morán Jahn
6 Realism
Do Not Erase the Graffiti - Krzysztof Wodiczko and Kirk Savage
Speculation and Care - Max Mollon
Ustedes (Them) - Krzysztof Wodiczko
7 Memory
The Post-traumatic Turn - Mark Jarzombek
Interrogating Monuments - Adam Ostolski
Truth and Reconciliation at the Sites of Disgraced Monuments - Krzysztof Wodiczko
Return - Michael Rakowitz
Monuments for a New Era - Ekene Ijeoma
Nomadic Shtetl Archive - Natalia Romik
8 Prosthetics
Cultural Prosthetics - Krzysztof Wodiczko
Cultural Prosthetics and Pragmatic Access - Sara Hendren
Alien Staff: Xenobàcul - Krzysztof Wodiczko
Human Echolocation - Gustavo Romeiro
9 Ethical Alertness
Interrogative Design with More-Than-Humans - Orkan Telhan
Ashland Nyanza Streetlights - Dan Borelli
WildUrban Radio - Dana Gordon
Acknowledgments
Notes
Contributors
Illustration
Credits
Index
