De-signing design : cartographies of theory and practice / edited by Elizabeth Grierson, Harriet Edquist, and Hélène Frichot ; editor-in-chief Hugh J. Silverman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : De-signing design : cartographies of theory and practice / Elizabeth Grierson, Harriet Edquist, and Hélène Frichot -- I. De-signing design -- 1. De-signing the city : interventions through art / Elizabeth Grierson -- 2. Toward de-signing : narratives, networks, and the open work / Scott McQuire -- 3. Designations / Mark Jackson -- 4. Signs of postmemory in Dresden : restoring the displaced / Marsha Berry -- 5. Posed solitude : signing a poetics of community / Maria O'Connor -- II. Geo-placed knowledges and design -- 6. 24 hours noticing : designing our encounters with place / Laurene Vaughan and Yoko Akama -- 7. Representing the city : complementing science and technology with art / William Cartwright -- 8. Embodied encounters : the photographic seeds of Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr's Ten canoes / Linda Daley -- 9. Mapping modernity in "Marvellous Melbourne" : Ada Cambridge's A woman's friendship / Harriet Edquist -- III. Mapping a new biological paradigm for design -- 10. Mapping an ethico-aesthetics for wet biotechnological architectures / Hélène Frichot -- 11. Digital organic design : architecture, the new biology, and the knowledge economy / Karen Burns -- 12. De-signing as bio-technological endosymbiosis / Stephen Loo -- 13. Design, Second life, and the hyper real / Lisa Dethridge -- 14. Hopeful : biology, architectural design, and philosophy / Chris Smith -- 15. Design and new materialism / Neil Leach -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the contributors and editors.

"De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice throws new light on the terrain between theory and practice in transdisciplinary discourses of design and art. The editors, Elizabeth Grierson, Harriet Edquist, and Helene Frichot, bring together diverse approaches to design theory, practice, and philosophy from leading scholars in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Themes include spatiality, difference, cultural aesthetics, and identity in the expanded field of place-making and being. The concept that design can be de-signed is presented as a way of exploring different approaches to an experimental and experiential thinking-doing that promises to further open up research possibilities in the fields of design and art thinking and practice. The book enacts a series of cartographic devices to articulate the spaces between theory and practice." --Back cover.