Design as Democratic Inquiry Putting Experimental Civics into Practice

• Main Author: DiSalvo, Carl (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Political structures: democracy; Civil rights & citizenship; Design; Democracy; Participatory Design; Participation; Politics; Care
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Through practices of collaborative imagination and making, or "doing design otherwise," design experiments can contribute to keeping local democracies vibrant. In this counterpoint to the grand narratives of design punditry, Carl DiSalvo presents what he calls "doing design otherwise....