Other Worlds

Subscribe to Other Worlds, a shapeshifting journal for design research, criticism and transformation. OW aims at making the social, political, cultural and technical complexities surrounding design practices legible and, thus, mutable > buttondown.email/otherworlds

New issue of @owjournal: web dev and writer Maisa Imamović dissects a tiny yet crucial user experience that occurs during the process of obtaining a residence permit. Cultural criticism + user journey + speculative interface design. Read & subscribe: buttondown.email/otherworlds/ar…

What Design Can't Do, the second book by COW codirector and researcher Silvio Lorusso (@silvio_lorusso), will be out at the end of the month but it is already available for pre-order from Set Margins' website. More info here: setmargins.press/books/what-des…

Almost there. What Design Can't Do will be out in late October with Set Margins', but you can already pre-order it. Here is the cover, designed by Federico Antonini. More info and pre-order here: setmargins.press/books/what-des…

New issue of @owjournal just out! Ana Henriques delves into the uses of détournement in different contexts such as the punk movement, the fight against AIDS and the images that criticise the cosy, pacific illustration style of Big Tech: Alegria. buttondown.email/otherworlds/ar…

New issue of @owjournal just out! Ana Henriques delves into the uses of détournement in different contexts such as the punk movement, the fight against AIDS and the images that criticise the cosy, pacific illustration style of Big Tech: Alegria. buttondown.email/otherworlds/ar…

The new issue of @owjournal is out! In this excerpt from 'Being with Data', media theorist @__nate__ discusses how the ubiquitous but overlooked ‘symbolic form’ of the dashboard came to dominate the everyday life of individuals, organizations, and firms. buttondown.email/otherworlds/ar…

In the new issue of @owjournal, @IsabelleZaugg, Anushah Hossain & Brendan Molloy explain why many languages are digitally-disadvantaged. They highlight the limits of the available tools and the surveillance risks faced by the speakers. Read & subscribe: buttondown.email/otherworlds/ar…

*Extremely* grateful to @camerontw for writing this rich yet accessible 'Latour 101'. Fellow designers and design researchers, you don't want to miss it!

The new issue of OW is out: @camerontw reflects on the “annoyingly prolific” production of Bruno Latour and its significance for designers. Read it here and subscribe: buttondown.email/otherworlds/ar… #design

“[history] is complex, it is undefined, it is messy, but the rewards will be great.” Martha Scotford quoted in an interview by Michele Galluzzo with @PeoplesGDArc buttondown.email/otherworlds/ar…

New issue! Michele Galluzzo speaks with Brockett Horne and Briar Levit, co-founders of @PeoplesGDArc, about messy history, bottom-up participation, institutional support and the awe that archival material can sparkle. Read it here and subscribe for more: buttondown.email/otherworlds/ar…

If you like *the thread*, you might want to read my new essay. This is, until now, my most ambitious attempt to intertwine the various themes I tweet about --> newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/expecta…

It's finally online "Expectations as Reality", the essay derived from the talk I gave at the Yale School of Art (@yaleschoolofart) in April: newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/expecta… Here, a mini thread with some of the included images

New OW issue! Looking back at his education, designer and researcher Afonso de Matos confronts a series of contradictions about the role of a critical attitude in design, its effects on the world and its relation to uneven professional opportunities. buttondown.email/otherworlds/ar…

The new issue of Other Worlds is out! In this excerpt of her recently published book "The Circuit" (Design Capital #1), @hnnhlls investigates the political and economic genealogy of design fairs, festivals and biennials. buttondown.email/otherworlds/ar…

Took a bit of time today to upload to my website the short essay on design and power I wrote for @owjournal. Hopefully, part 2 will be out soon. Bonus image in the tweet. silviolorusso.com/publication/de…

My essay "Learn to Code vs. Code to Learn: Creative Coding Beyond the Economic Imperative" is now available online. silviolorusso.com/publication/le…

Design Capital is a book series that expose challenging and critical long-form essays about fundamental structures sustaining the design field. Vol 1, 'The Circuit', is a wide-ranging critique of design festivals and biennials, by @hnnhlls. Out now. ➡️ designcapital.biz

OW #6 is out! @ManufacturaInd rigorously dissects Stayaway, the contact tracing app launched in Portugal during the Covid pandemic, proving that a grounded criticism of public health monitoring systems is possible. Read it here and subscribe: buttondown.email/otherworlds/ar…

open access fees are currently the equivalent of two months of my sallary and of course my university cannot pay for them. how can we be judged based on citations if we cannot pay for boosting them? this is a rigged game where researchers in the Global South always lose… damn!