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Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon
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About Designing In Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon
About the Author Virginia Tassinari is Assistant Professor at LUCA School of Arts, Belgium, where she also founded the LUCA DESIS Lab; Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a design researcher for Pantopicon, an Antwerp-based foresight and design studio. Her research areas are design and philosophy, with a specific focus on design for social innovation, participatory design and design activism.Clive Dilnot is professor of Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA. Recent publications include Ethics? Design? (2005) and the text for Chris Killip: Pirelli Work (2007).Eduardo Staszowski is associate professor of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design, and Director of the Parsons DESIS Lab, New York, USA. He is the co-editor of the Designing in Dark Times series and of the book Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon (Bloomsbury 2020). Product Description The architectural historian and critic Kenneth Frampton 'never recovered' from the force of Hannah Arendt's teaching at The New School in New York. The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein considers her the most perceptive political theorist and observer of 'dark times' (a concept which, drawing from Brecht, she made her own). Building on the revival of interest in Hannah Arendt, and on the increasing turn in design towards the expanded field of the social, this unique book uses insights and quotations drawn from Arendt's major writings (The Human Condition; The Origins of Totalitarianism, Men in Dark Times) to assemble a new kind of lexicon for politics, designing and acting today. Taking 56 terms – from Action, Beginnings and Creativity through Mortality, Natality, and Play to Superfluity, Technology and Violence – and inviting designers and scholars of design world-wide to contribute, Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon, offers up an extraordinary range of short essays that use moments and quotations from Arendt's thought as the starting points for reflection on how these terms can be conceived for contemporary design and political praxis. Neither simply dictionary nor glossary, the lexicon brings together designing and political philosophy to begin to create a new language for acting and designing against dark times. Review “The conception of "designing in dark times" developed in this admirable and interesting project is in harmony with the Arendt's thinking and writing. It makes a welcome and practical addition to the large and growing literature on Arendt.” ―Jerome Kohn, a Trustee of the Hannah Arendt Bluecher Literary Trust, teaches at The New School, USA and has published several volumes of Arendt's published and unpublished writings, the most recent is Thinking Without a Bannister: Essays in Understanding 1953-1975 (2018)“A provocative and timely intervention into the politics of design, this is the first book to bring Hannah Arendt's ideas directly into critical conversation with the urgent questions of designing today: a vital tool for every designer and design scholar'.” ―Alison Clarke is a University Professor, Chair of Design History & Theory and Director of the Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts, Austria
