{"product_id":"patricio-davila-visualizing-assemblages-modesty-ethics-and-attachment-inform-a-critical-design-practice-1","title":"Patricio Dávila, Visualizing Assemblages: Modesty, Ethics, and Attachment Inform a Critical Design Practice.","description":"\u003cp\u003eVisualization is a form of design practice that deploys representational processes of enormous rhetorical and analytical power. What is often left out of the picture is the network of processes which it assembles and the non-visual effects it produces. This book asks\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ehow visualization can operate as a critical design practice that attends to the representational and performative processes it arranges\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo look at this form of power in design, the book reviews of Bruno Latour’s interpretation of design as a form of modest restyling and arrangement. It also addresses this question through the use of an alignment between Latour’s development of actor-network theory and Deleuze and Guattari’s assemblage theory which allows to both describe how things and processes mobilize knowledge and how human subjectivity emerges from human-nonhuman entanglements, respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis assemblage framework is applied to three case studies that offer distinct instances of critical visualization practices with each emphasizing a specific aspect.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiquid Traces\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(2014), from Forensic Architecture (a research project based at Goldsmiths, University of London), is a project that condemns NATO forces for criminal negligence that led to the deaths of 63 refugees fleeing Libya by boat in 2011, and also reveals the ways a surface may assemble components and highlight its own form of construction.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnti-Eviction Mapping Project\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(2013–present), from the San Francisco Tenants Union, advocates for housing justice by mobilizing maps, events, and site-specific installations, and illustrates how visualization is a process that exists beyond any one artifact.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn The Air, Tonight\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(2013–2016), from the Public Visualization Lab\/Studio, highlights the connection between housing and climate through an annual visualization event, and shows how design can operate through iteration, reworking, and connection to allied processes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges from this study is an ethics of visualization that refocuses criticality on the potential of design to act modestly, to reveal its own construction, and to maintain the quality of attachments made.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Set Margins'","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57684952318287,"sku":"PK2008","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/3068\/6031\/files\/PKB_4254.jpg?v=1778681878","url":"https:\/\/publicknowledgebooks.com\/products\/patricio-davila-visualizing-assemblages-modesty-ethics-and-attachment-inform-a-critical-design-practice-1","provider":"Public Knowledge","version":"1.0","type":"link"}