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  • On the politics of design framing practices

Prendeville, Sharon, Syperek, Pandora and Santamaria, Laura, 2022, Journal Article, On the politics of design framing practices Design Issues, 38 (3). pp. 71-84. ISSN 0747-9360

Abstract or Description:

In this conceptual article, our aim is to deconstruct the conceptualization of design framing and establish its essentially political nature. It demonstrates the positionality inherent within frames insofar as frames articulate subordinated or dominant status, or express normative understandings until challenged. In doing so, we build a conceptualization of the political foundations of design framing practices and their implications for those contexts within which design operates. Consequently, we argue for dissensual counter-framing design practices that unsettle institutionalized norms and ideologies played out within frames, and through which a form of political agency is sociomaterially enacted.

Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00692
Subjects: Creative Arts and Design > W200 Design studies > W290 Design studies not elsewhere classified
School or Centre: School of Communication
Identification Number or DOI: 10.1162/desi_a_00692
Uncontrolled Keywords: design frames;design politics;social movements;Institutional Theory;frame innovation;counter-frames;collective action;materiality;sociomateriality
Date Deposited: 10 Sep 2024 10:40
Last Modified: 10 Sep 2024 10:40
URI: https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5977
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