Design Philosophy Politics [world wide web resource]

CW707, CW728, CW738

"founded and edited by TEAM D/E/S Queensland AU hosted by HCI/d at the School of Informatics Indiana University at Bloomington IN USA. The objectives of Design Philosophy Politics are to widen the constituency that recognises the importance of the relation between design and politics; create a global community of critical, politically informed designers, design thinkers and critics. Design Philosophy Politics is an extension and development of Design Philosophy Papers, a refereed online journal established in 2003. The political implications of design are frequently addressed in Design Philosophy Papers in theoretical and scholarly ways. Contributors have engaged design in relation to concerns such as: ethics, user-centredness, technology; otherness; dematerialisation; aesthetics; sustainability; urbocentrism; homelessness; politics and the political. The kind of radical thinking being developed through Design Philosophy Papers informs the briefer, more hard-hitting content of Design Philosophy Politics. Design Philosophy Politics aspires to be rigorous in its criticism of the unsustainable and affirmative in its embrace of potentially effective actions towards sustainment." -- website.