Adversarial Design
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Adversarial Design is a 2012 book by Carl DiSalvo that examines how design can serve as a means of political engagement and expression. Introducing the concept of adversarial design, DiSalvo argues that designed artifacts—such as objects, interfaces, systems, and events—can challenge dominant narratives, provoke debate, and enable agonistic interaction within democratic societies. Drawing on political theory, particularly the idea of agonism, the book frames design as an inherently political practice and explores how it can be used to question power structures and foster critical discourse across disciplinary boundaries.[1]
Key concepts
Fundamental to Adversarial Design is agonism, a condition of productive contestation and dissensus. Adversarial Design allows for spaces of agonism to flourish and provide resources and opportunities for others to participate in this contestation. As such, “Adversarial” in Adversarial Design paves the way for dissensus, contestational relations and experiences through made designed artefacts and its expression. It is therefore biased and takes divisive positions.[2][3]
With agonism as foundation to Adversarial Design, these affective aspects of critique and commentary in political discourse aim to generate disagreement and confrontation that are forever ongoing and contestation that is forever looping. Adversarial Design facilitates ongoing questioning, challenging and reframing as a self-reflective mechanism for democracy to be effective.
DiSalvo also draws a distinction between Adversarial Design as political design (design for ongoing contest between force and ideals) and not design for politics, which is designed to support the means of governance. Thus, one of the characteristics of Adversarial Design is the cultivated discernment of political qualities of artefacts and systems.
Examples
Examples include:
- CCD – Me Not Umbrella by Mark Shepard (2009)[4]
- Feral Robotic Dogs by Natalie Jeremijenko (2002)[5]
- Machine Therapy by Kelly Dobson (2007)[6]
- Million Dollar Blocks by SIDL (2003)[7]
- Natural Fuse by Haque Design + Research (2009)[8]
- Oil Standard by Michael Mandiberg (2006)[9]
- Spore 1.1 by Douglas Easterly and Matthew Kenyon (2007)[10]
- State-Machine:Agency by Max Carlson and Ben Cerveny (2005)[11]
- They Rule (2001, 2004, 2011) and Exxon Secrets (2014) by Josh On[12][13]
- Unfluence by Skye Bender-deMoll and Greg Michalec (2007)[14]
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.DiSalvo, Carl (2012). Adversarial design. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01738-1.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.DiSalvo, Carl. Garnet Hertz (ed.). "Introducing Adversarial Design" (PDF). Critical Making (2012).
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kolko, Jon. "Thoughts on Participatory Design, Adversarial Design, and Consumerism". Austin Center 4 Design. Archived from the original on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kelly Dobson: Machine Therapy". 13 October 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-10-13.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Million Dollar Blocks".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Natural Fuse : home / map". naturalfuse.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Oil Standard, Greasemonkey conversion of US Dollars to Barrels of Oil". turbulence. Archived from the original on 2014-12-07. Retrieved 2014-10-10.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."SWAMP SPORE 1.1". swamp. Archived from the original on 2014-10-17. Retrieved 2014-10-10.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."state-machine.org/agency/". State-machine.org. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-08. Retrieved 2014-10-10.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Unfluence".
Sources
- Future Tense Event Recap: Evgeny Morozov on His New Book To Save Everything, Click Here Slate April 2013.
- Design Agonism Textile Toolbox
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hirsch, Tad (1 May 2009). "FEATURELearning from activists". Interactions. 16 (3): 31. doi:10.1145/1516016.1516024. S2CID 16767766.
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