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<p>Now available for direct ordering and/or free download…<br>
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<b>Ideas Arrangements Effects: Systems Design and Social Justice</b><br>
The Design Studio for Social Intervention<br>
Foreword by Arturo Escobar<br>
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A guide for using design principles to inform and shape radical
politics<br>
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Ideas are embedded in social arrangements, which in turn produce
effects.<br>
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With this simple premise, this radically accessible systems design
book makes a compelling case for arrangements as a rich and
overlooked terrain for social justice and world building.
Unpacking how ideas like racism and sexism remain sturdy by
embedding themselves in everything from physical and social
infrastructure to everyday speech and thought habits, this book
gives readers the tools to sense, intervene in and imagine new
arrangements. Using diverse examples from their work and others,
DS4SI offers readers a roadmap for using social interventions to
invite the larger public into imagining and creating a more just
and vibrant world.<br>
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“Throughout their work, DS4SI strives to enact the principle that
design is not just about problem-solving within existing paradigms
and social orders, it is about world building, about imagining and
constructing new territories of life and difference… This is
design’s imagination at its best, the grounds for a genuinely
transformative design praxis. It is a route to disclosing new
worlds and bringing them into existence.” – Arturo Escobar, author
of Designing the Pluriverse<br>
“As we face this dire moment of climate change, tyranny, mass
extinction and international war on the global scale, and poverty,
housing shortages, and stagnant wages at home, we need tools that
we can use to address these problems, and it can’t be just the
same old tools we’ve been using all along. This is where this
excellent guide to ideas-arrangements-effects comes in.” – Mindy
Thompson Fullilove, author of Root Shock: How Tearing Up City
Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It<br>
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Bio: The Design Studio for Social Intervention is dedicated to
changing how social justice is imagined, developed and deployed in
the United States. Situated at the intersections of design
practice, social justice, public art, and popular engagement,
DS4SI designs and tests social interventions with and on behalf of
marginalized populations, controversies and ways of life. Founded
in 2005 and based in Boston, DS4SI is a space where activists,
artists, academics and the larger public come together to imagine
new approaches to social change and new solutions to complex
social issues. <br>
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PDF available freely online:
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Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions now
for the special price <br>
of £10.<br>
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Release to the book trade June 2020<br>
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