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Chris Lee â Immutable: Designing History
Immutable: Designing History explores the banal genre of the document and its entanglement with statecraft and colonial(ism/ity). This is framed as a ~5,000 year chronology, imbricating the developments of money and writing â from Mesopotamian clay tablets to distributed ledgers, like the blockchain. Immutability figures as a design imperative and hermeneutic for considering a variety of techniques (material, technological, administrative, etc.) of securitisation against the entropy of a documentâs movement through space/time, and the political.
This project is driven by a contrast: design educators tend to teach forms like logos, books, websites, etc., but not passports, money, property deeds, etc., in spite of these being, I contend, designâs most profoundly consequential forms.
As an alternative historiography, Immutable gestures both towards anthropologist Laura Naderâs call to 'study up' (on those in power), and the radical educator Paolo Freireâs recognition of the 'limit situation' as a generative condition for emancipatory praxis. The bookâs aim is to orient graphic design towards the vocation of imagining, naming, and remembering beyond the horizons of its role as a managerial, administrative, and colonial instrument that imposes a rationality of vision and accountability upon what is knowable, thinkable and sayable. â Chris Lee
192 pages, 12.7 x 19.7cm, softcover, Onomatopee (Eindhoven).
This project is driven by a contrast: design educators tend to teach forms like logos, books, websites, etc., but not passports, money, property deeds, etc., in spite of these being, I contend, designâs most profoundly consequential forms.
As an alternative historiography, Immutable gestures both towards anthropologist Laura Naderâs call to 'study up' (on those in power), and the radical educator Paolo Freireâs recognition of the 'limit situation' as a generative condition for emancipatory praxis. The bookâs aim is to orient graphic design towards the vocation of imagining, naming, and remembering beyond the horizons of its role as a managerial, administrative, and colonial instrument that imposes a rationality of vision and accountability upon what is knowable, thinkable and sayable. â Chris Lee
192 pages, 12.7 x 19.7cm, softcover, Onomatopee (Eindhoven).
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Chris Lee â Immutable: Designing Historyâ
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Chris Lee â Immutable: Designing History
Immutable: Designing History explores the banal genre of the document and its entanglement with statecraft and colonial(ism/ity). This is framed as a ~5,000 year chronology, imbricating the developments of money and writing â from Mesopotamian clay tablets to distributed ledgers, like the blockchain. Immutability figures as a design imperative and hermeneutic for considering a variety of techniques (material, technological, administrative, etc.) of securitisation against the entropy of a documentâs movement through space/time, and the political.
This project is driven by a contrast: design educators tend to teach forms like logos, books, websites, etc., but not passports, money, property deeds, etc., in spite of these being, I contend, designâs most profoundly consequential forms.
As an alternative historiography, Immutable gestures both towards anthropologist Laura Naderâs call to 'study up' (on those in power), and the radical educator Paolo Freireâs recognition of the 'limit situation' as a generative condition for emancipatory praxis. The bookâs aim is to orient graphic design towards the vocation of imagining, naming, and remembering beyond the horizons of its role as a managerial, administrative, and colonial instrument that imposes a rationality of vision and accountability upon what is knowable, thinkable and sayable. â Chris Lee
192 pages, 12.7 x 19.7cm, softcover, Onomatopee (Eindhoven).
This project is driven by a contrast: design educators tend to teach forms like logos, books, websites, etc., but not passports, money, property deeds, etc., in spite of these being, I contend, designâs most profoundly consequential forms.
As an alternative historiography, Immutable gestures both towards anthropologist Laura Naderâs call to 'study up' (on those in power), and the radical educator Paolo Freireâs recognition of the 'limit situation' as a generative condition for emancipatory praxis. The bookâs aim is to orient graphic design towards the vocation of imagining, naming, and remembering beyond the horizons of its role as a managerial, administrative, and colonial instrument that imposes a rationality of vision and accountability upon what is knowable, thinkable and sayable. â Chris Lee
192 pages, 12.7 x 19.7cm, softcover, Onomatopee (Eindhoven).
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Immutable: Designing History explores the banal genre of the document and its entanglement with statecraft and colonial(ism/ity). This is framed as a ~5,000 year chronology, imbricating the developments of money and writing â from Mesopotamian clay tablets to distributed ledgers, like the blockchain. Immutability figures as a design imperative and hermeneutic for considering a variety of techniques (material, technological, administrative, etc.) of securitisation against the entropy of a documentâs movement through space/time, and the political.
This project is driven by a contrast: design educators tend to teach forms like logos, books, websites, etc., but not passports, money, property deeds, etc., in spite of these being, I contend, designâs most profoundly consequential forms.
As an alternative historiography, Immutable gestures both towards anthropologist Laura Naderâs call to 'study up' (on those in power), and the radical educator Paolo Freireâs recognition of the 'limit situation' as a generative condition for emancipatory praxis. The bookâs aim is to orient graphic design towards the vocation of imagining, naming, and remembering beyond the horizons of its role as a managerial, administrative, and colonial instrument that imposes a rationality of vision and accountability upon what is knowable, thinkable and sayable. â Chris Lee
192 pages, 12.7 x 19.7cm, softcover, Onomatopee (Eindhoven).
This project is driven by a contrast: design educators tend to teach forms like logos, books, websites, etc., but not passports, money, property deeds, etc., in spite of these being, I contend, designâs most profoundly consequential forms.
As an alternative historiography, Immutable gestures both towards anthropologist Laura Naderâs call to 'study up' (on those in power), and the radical educator Paolo Freireâs recognition of the 'limit situation' as a generative condition for emancipatory praxis. The bookâs aim is to orient graphic design towards the vocation of imagining, naming, and remembering beyond the horizons of its role as a managerial, administrative, and colonial instrument that imposes a rationality of vision and accountability upon what is knowable, thinkable and sayable. â Chris Lee
192 pages, 12.7 x 19.7cm, softcover, Onomatopee (Eindhoven).
