Bricolage, hybridity, circularity: crafting production strategies in critical and conceptual design

Rossi, Cat (2013) Bricolage, hybridity, circularity: crafting production strategies in critical and conceptual design. Design and Culture, 5 (1). pp. 69-87. ISSN 1754-7075 (Print) 1754-7083 (Online)

Creators:
Rossi, Cat
Description/Abstract:

Attending to production and appropriating the handmade has been a persistent thread in critical and conceptual design practice from its origins in 1970s Italian radicalism and reemergence in Dutch conceptualism, to its current fashionability among designers today. Practitioners such as Tejo Remy and Thomas Thwaites are among those to envisage the designer as a maker, reimagining the environment with the limited materials, tools, and skill at hand in order to make objects informed by the productive methods of bricolage, hybridity, and circularity. Their motivations for adopting these methods vary according to cultural and historical context; these range from issues of alienation, sustainability, and post-apocalyptic survival, to the liberatory
potential of having less. Through examining this multi-faceted preeminence of manual production, this article aims to contribute to the discourse on critical and conceptual design past and present and advance its speculative potential.

Item Type:
Article
Official URL:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2752/175470...
Date:
2013
Identification Number:
10.2752/175470813X13491105785622
Schools:
School of Architecture & Design
Depositing User:
Dr Cat Rossi
Date Deposited:
27 Sep 2023 14:29
Last Modified:
27 Sep 2023 14:29
Rossi, Cat:
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7936-8232
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/6047

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