The Design Philosophy Reader

Preface Introduction, Anne Marie Willis PART 1: THE ESSENCE OF DESIGN Introduction 1. The Fault of Epimetheus, Bernard Stiegler 2. In the Beginning, Tony Fry 3. A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design, Bruno Latour 4. The Depth of Design, Albert Borgmann 5. Design as an Ontological Question, Tony Fry Guide to Further Reading PART 2: THE PRACTICE OF DESIGNIntroduction 6. Science, Art and Practical Wisdom, Aristotle 7. The Complication of Praxis, William McNeill 8. The Existential Self as Locus of Sustainability in Design, Philippe d'Anjou 9. Science of the Concrete, Claude Levi-Strauss 10. The Textility of MakingTim IngoldGuide to Further ReadingPART 3: THE ETHOS OF DESIGN Introduction 11. Artefacts: the Making Sentient of the External World, Elaine Scarry 12. Ethics by Design or the Ethos of Things, Cameron Tonkinwise 13. Grievability, Judith Butler 14. The One for the Other Adrian Peperrzak 15. Ethics in the Making, Bodil Jönsson et alGuide to Further ReadingPART 4: DESIGN AND THE OTHER Introduction 16. On Coloniality of Knowledge, Madina V. Tlostanova 17. The Enframing Gaze, Timothy Mitchell 18. The Violence of Humanitarian Design, Mahmoud Keshavarz 19. The Force of Form, the Effect of Genre, Francois Jullien 20. Why Not an Alphabet? Lothar Ledderose Guide to Further Reading Guide to Further ReadingPART 5: BEING DESIGNED AND THINGSIntroduction 21. The Thing, Martin Heidegger 22. Materialism is Not the Solution: On Matter, Form, and Mimesis Graham Harman 23. Is Design Finished? Dematerialisation and Changing Things, Cameron Tonkinwise 24. Beyond Affordance Michael May 25. Understanding, Ontology, Thrownness and Readiness-to-hand, Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores 26. Smart meters don't make us any smarter Elizabeth Shove and Sarah Royston 27. Matter and Mattering or Why are Things "Us"? Clive DilnotGuide to Further ReadingPART 6: THE DESIGNING OF TECHNOLOGYIntroduction 28. Technology: Instrumental

Anne-Marie Willis is Visiting Professor of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Adelaide, Australia and editor of Design Philosophy Papers at The Studio at the Edge of the World.