Information design for the bigger picture
by Carlo Bramanti ; with afterword by Silvio Lorusso
- Author(s)
- Carlo Bramanti, Silvio Lorusso
- Publication, year
- Eindhoven : Set Margins', 2025
- Scope
- 192 Pages, illustrated, 17,5 cm.
- ISBN
- 978-90-834498-7-6
This book deals with Design and Conspiracy Theories, two things that are often thought of as opposites. Design is generally perceived as something that simplifies and targets the essence of things; something that should say the Truth. Conspiracy theories instead are far-fetched and create confusion. Design is expected to be able to bypass false rhetorics because its very premise is to deal with how things work in reality. However, what is argued in this book is that design and conspiracy theories mirror each other. They act with similar goals and they adopt comparable representations. They intersect in their practices and in their artifacts because they share a common ground at their fundaments. This common ground is Conspiratorial Design. "Designers are particularly vulnerable to the issues of conspirational thinking as our job consists of processing a lot of information, mediating it and trying to synthesize it in order to produce an output that is emotionally appealing and narratively coherent. "
- Person as subject
- Richard Buckminster Fuller
- Keywords
- design theory
- Location
- Cabinet 14 - 2: Vormgeving / Design
- Contains
- notes , bibliography
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