How does design give form to social fictions? How does design and the professionalization of design schooling maintain the priorities of nations and capital? Through Witnessing names and wrestles with institutional design education’s pseudo-neutral relationship with colonial capitalist world orders and what it means to teach and design today. It slowly weaves together ideas on designing as a mechanism of maintenance and teaching against bureaucratic inertia.
This volume compiles discussions from the Post-Radical Pedagogy lecture series organized by Nida Abdullah, Chris Lee and Xinyi Li, who are all assistant professors in the Undergraduate Communications Design Department at Pratt Institute in New . . . .go to book page >>

In a world propelled by swift technological progress and perpetual obsolescence, women frequently find themselves adapting and altering their daily experiences in order to remain functional. In the 21st century, as technology purports to comprehensively assess and address women’s conditions and physical discomfort, Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed delves deeply into the realm of female health technologies, revealing a space where science, holistic methods and mythology converge. This book challenges the idea of combining ancient wisdom with modern innovation and takes readers on a multidisciplinary journey to explore the intricacies of women’s health. What roles can digital tools and . . . .go to book page >>

This volume collects contemporary artworks and projects that use data, diagrams, maps and visualizations as ways of challenging dominant narratives and supporting the resilience of marginalized communities.
The artists and designers featured critique conventionalized and established truths that obscure important histories or perpetuate oppressive regimes; they also contribute to positive social change by engaging communities and providing alternative strategies for storytelling, communication and organizing. Historical and contemporary uses of data and visualization in colonization, surveillance and management are problematized through critical interventions that use performance, embodiment and counternarratives. The publication is the product of an exhibition organized by Onsite Gallery at . . . .go to book page >>

An experimental novel intertwining 1950s Malayan film scripts and film narratives, a fictionalized autobiographic diary, film theory and more, Slander! brings voice to the culture of Southeast Asia’s Hollywood counterpart.

Responding to the museum status quo, Aldo Giannotti's concepts and props reshape the institution’s social and spatial architecture. Through dialogue with staff, guards and visitors, Giannotti engages with the museum and its underlying purpose.

Hot on the heels of his books The Impossibility of Silence and The Failed Painter, designer, writer and teacher Ian Lynam’s latest body of work is an urgent and impassioned examination of the contemporary condition. War with Myself is a wide-ranging collection of essays spanning design, authenticity, empire, decolonization and history.
Originally hailing from New York, Ian Lynam holds a BS in graphic design from Portland State University and an MFA in graphic design from CalArts. He is faculty and former cochair at Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA Graphic Design program. Lynam is a cofounder of the critical . . . .go to book page >>