Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design
The publication «Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design» consolidates the wide variety of beliefs, subjects and practices of contemporary designers at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). It offers different approaches and insights regarding the present-day role and nature of design, and the impact it can have. It is not conceived as a finished project, but as a free-thinking testimony of its time.
Collaborative design, interaction within complex systems, attention economics, the ecological shift, visual literacy, gender-neutral design, environmentally detrimental design, «quick and dirty» design ethnography, presence and trust, social responsibility, the value of ugliness, death futures, immersive technologies, identity and crises, design as a transformative discipline, Design Your Future – all of these topics are presented in this reader in random order but with passion, personal conviction and professional expertise, and offered up for debate.
The publication is published by Birkhäuser Verlag and can be downloaded as a PDF free of charge.
Editors:
Head of Department Hansuli Matter, Björn Franke
Initiated by:
Department of Design, Zurich University of the Arts
Design and Identity:
Offshore Studio
Date of publication:
Autumn 2020
With contributions from: Karmen Franinovic, Nicole Fölsterli, Ulrich Götz, Flurina Gradin, Niklaus Heeb, Larissa Holaschke, Margarete Jahrmann, Sandra Kaufmann, Nicole Kind, Roman Kirschner, Michael Krohn, Francis Müller Lisa Ochsenbein, Sarah Owens, Antoni Scarponi, Reinhard Schmidt, Karin Seiler, Bitten Stetter, Maike Thies, Katharina Tietze, Stefano Vanotti, Margarete von Lupin, Martin Zimper, Corina Zuberbühler