Disarming Design: Politics of Participatory Practices

Annelys De Vet

€ 41.99

How can design be a tool for emancipation and solidarity? How can design catalyze the activation and imagination of locally anchored knowledge? What can we learn from this? How can others use this book to define questions, stepping stones and ‘scratching posts’ to set up their own way of starting a project and work on participatory design trajectories? Disarming Design takes three projects as its starting points that show the intricacies, questions and challenges that these political participatory processes incur: 1 • Subjective Editions (publishing platform); 2 • Disarming Design from Palestine (design label); 3 • Disarming Design (Temporary Master’s programme Sandberg Institute).

The book centres around these projects (co-)initiated by Annelys de Vet that engage with social and political struggles, attuned to relational ways of being-in-the-world. In its context it addresses broader and complex questions that were raised through these practices, in particular with working as a designer in the context of Palestine. It is a plea for sustainable collaborations and rooted connections—through design.