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Alison J. Clarke
Hardcover |18.57 x 2.49 x 23.65 cm | 344 pp
MIT Press | 2021 | 9780262044943
The history and controversial roots of the social design movement, explored through the life and work of its leading pioneer, Victor Papanek.
InVictor Papanek: Designer for the Real World, Alison Clarke explores the social design movement through the life of its leading pioneer, the Austrian American designer, theorist, and activist Victor Papanek. Papanek’s 1971 best seller,Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Changehas been translated into twenty-two languages and never fallen out of print. Its politics of social design, anti-corporatism, and environmental sustainability have found renewed pertinence in the twenty-first century and dominate the agendas of design schools today. Drawing extensively on previously unexplored archival sources, Clarke uncovers and contextualises the movement’s controversial origins and contradictions.
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