{"product_id":"critical-fabulations-reworking-the-methods-and-margins-of-design-design-thinking-design-theory-9780262037891","title":"Critical Fabulations: Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design (Design Thinking  Design Theory)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the fields dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself. In Critical Fabulations  Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist  personal and culturally situated  responsive and responsible. Challenging the fields dominant paradigms and reinterpreting its history  Rosner wants to change the way we historicize the practice  reworking it from the inside. Focusing on the development of computational systems  she takes on powerful narratives of innovation and technology shaped by the professional expertise that has become integral to the fields mounting status within the new industrial economy. To do so  she intervenes in legacies of design  expanding what is considered design to include long-silenced narratives of practice  and enhancing existing design methodologies based on these rediscovered inheritances. Drawing on discourses of feminist technoscience  she examines craftworks contributions to computing innovationhow craftwork becomes hardware manufacturing  and how hardware manufacturing becomes craftwork. She reclaims  for example  NASAs Little Old Ladies  the women who built information storage for the Apollo missions by weaving wires through magnetized metal rings.  Mixing history  theory  personal experience  and case studies  Rosner reweaves fibers of technoscience by slowly reworking the methods and margins of design. She suggests critical fabulations as ways of telling stories that awaken alternative histories  and offers a set of techniques and orientations for fabulating its future. Critical Fabulations shows how designs hidden inheritances open different possibilities for practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45116220866613,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262037890","price":238.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262037891.jpg?v=1780516925","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/critical-fabulations-reworking-the-methods-and-margins-of-design-design-thinking-design-theory-9780262037891","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}