Designinquiry 2009: Design-LESS
March 21, 2009 | Levent OZLER
DesignInquiry invites professionals, educators and students of diverse disciplines to respond to a design-related topic in any way they think is appropriate, necessary or amusing.
Join 20-some inquirers this summer in person, on a Maine island, at DesignInquiry, now in its seventh year.
A common perception of design is that it is a special effect, a false nose added to the artifacts of everyday life, the invention of useless stuff.
In response to this, "Design-LESS" will collect and discuss a sampling of design projects that share a kind of productive nihilism: variations on doing "nothing" or "next to nothing", open-ended projects, which allow for adaptation and improvisation, site-specific work that can't be mass-marketed, Work that subtracts, obstructs or interferes with an existing language, that challenges the conventions of visual communication we are used to taking for granted.
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