Find Similar Books - Feminism & Form: Revisioning Design and Technology by Joan Rothschild

Feminism & Form: Revisioning Design and Technology

by Joan Rothschild

Summary

If design is a conscious willing of the future, how do feminist design projects envision our future?If design is a conscious willing of the future, how do feminist design projects envision our future? Does feminist design practice respond to changes in consumer culture, in which gender and traditional roles are becoming less significant as an insatiable appetite for technology becomes more so?In this anthology practitioners and researchers in the fields of architecture, planning, industrial design, engineering, graphic design, and communications and information technologies critique current practice. In a series of essays, the contributors examine built environments and the use of space, the New Urbanism currently in vogue, cyberspace and new technology, and the production and consumption of industrial design efforts. Underscoring these discussions is the idea that design can be used to create sustainable communities and relationships of mutual respect. Feminism and Re-Visioning Design and Technology is the only cross-disciplinary anthology to combine feminist studies in architecture, environmental planning, technology, and interior and industrial design. The essays in the collection are based on papers presented at the Re-Visioning Design and Feminist Perspectives conference held at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in November 1995.