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OW is a shapeshifting journal for design research, criticism and transformation.

Katılım Nisan 2021
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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
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Silvio Lorusso
Silvio Lorusso@silvio_lorusso·
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…
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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…
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Silvio Lorusso@silvio_lorusso·
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…
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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…
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Silvio Lorusso@silvio_lorusso·
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…
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Silvio Lorusso@silvio_lorusso·
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…
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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…
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Silvio Lorusso@silvio_lorusso·
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…
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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…
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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…
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Modes of Criticism
Modes of Criticism@modescriticism·
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
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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…
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Frederick van Amstel
Frederick van Amstel@fredvanamstel·
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!
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