[csaa-forum] M/C Journal, vol. 24: no. 4 "Design" now available

[Nicole Sully]

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M/C – Media and Culture
is proud to present issue four in volume twenty-four of

M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/



‘design’ — Edited by Nicole Sully, Timothy O'Rourke, and Andrew Wilson



Between its broader sense of intent and that of making a drawing or plan, design appears to be expanding in both meaning and its application. Design is well understood when related to our material culture, where the medium often bears the imprint of the designer/s. Design has moved relatively seamlessly from the physical into the digital world. It makes sense that someone designs the applications that we use and that digital content, just as much as a poster, requires design. Design activities are rarely inseparable from a market economy, but the language of design has infiltrated business more broadly. Design processes are used in seemingly novel ways across business and governments seeking to improve their digital and real-world services. New usage related to users, perhaps unknowingly, replicates the interests of designers in the 1960s who sought a more equitable solutions to social problems experienced in the physical world.

What loosely unites these disparate design disciplines diachronically and today is a shared sense that design improves the world we live in. But even with the best intentions, design does not inevitably lead to a better world. Our desire for stuff, and the social status this might bring, has helped to elevate designers into celebrities, but also heightened distinctions between the copy and the original. Design, either analogue or digital, has unintended consequences. These include, among other examples, the environmental degradation that emerges from design consumption through to the carbon footprint of the digital world. This issue of M/C Journal critiques design across its range of disciplines.



         Design — Nicole Sully, Timothy O'Rourke, Andrew Wilson

         Better in Pictures: Visual Literacy and the Cosmopolitan Imaginary — Samuel Holleran

         For Modern Children: Design and Rhetoric of a 1960s Contemporary Toy Tea Set — Curt Lund

         Designing Player Intent through “Playful” Interaction: A Case Study of Techniques in Transistor and Journey — Heather Blakey

         “What's the Brief?”: Building a Discourse around the Graphic Design Brief — Yaron Meron

         Reframing Architecture through Design: A “Meta-Framing” Approach to Making Shared Meaning in an Architecture Studio Context — Mark Sawyer, Philip Goldswain

         Designing for Curves: Size and Shape Elements of 1950s-Style Fashion — Lisa J. Hackett

         Minimalist Design in the Age of Archive Fever: On Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s “Interesting” Films about Networked Media — Ananya

         Transformative or Tokenistic? Exploring the Legitimacy of Participatory Design Methods within an Indigenous Context — Harriette Poiner, Campbell Drake

         Co-Designing Change: Discussing an Indigenous Voice to Parliament and Constitutional Reform in Australia — Bronwyn Fredericks, Abraham Bradfield



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Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2021:

‘monster’:           article deadline 6 Aug. 2021,       release date 6 Oct. 2021

M/C Journal 24.4 is now online: <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>.

Previous issues of M/C Journal on various topics are also still available.

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All contributors are available for media contacts: mc at media-culture.org.au<mailto:mc at media-culture.org.au>.

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Dr Nicole Sully
Senior Lecturer (Architecture)
School of Architecture
University of Queensland
Brisbane, QLD, 4072
Australia

[T] + 61 7 33653785          [F] + 61 7 33653999          [E] n.sully at uq.edu.au<mailto:n.sully at uq.edu.au>


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