{"product_id":"immutable-designing-history-9789493148420","title":"Immutable: Designing History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eImmutable: Designing History explores the banal genre of the document and its entanglement with statecraft and colonialism\/ity, framed as a 5,000-year chronology. It argues that design educators should teach forms like passports, money, and property deeds, as they are the most consequential forms. It aims 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. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 192 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 07 December 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Onomatopee\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImmutable: Designing History is a book that explores the banal genre of the document and its entanglement with statecraft and colonialism. It is framed as a 5,000-year chronology, encompassing the developments of money and writing from Mesopotamian clay tablets to distributed ledgers like the blockchain. Immutability is presented as a design imperative and hermeneutic for considering various techniques of securitization against the entropy of a document's movement through space\/time and the political.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is driven by a contrast: design educators tend to teach forms like logos, books, and websites, but not passports, money, property deeds, etc., despite these being the most consequential forms of design. As an alternative historiography, \"Immutable\" gestures towards anthropologist Laura Nader's call to \"study up\" (on those in power) and the radical educator Paolo Freire's recognition of the \"limit situation\" as a generative condition for emancipatory praxis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book's 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChris Lee is a graphic designer and educator based in Buffalo and Brooklyn, NY. He is a graduate of OCADU and the Sandberg Instituut. His research\/studio practice explores graphic design's entanglement with power, standards, and the document. Chris is an Assistant Professor in the Undergraduate Communications Design Department at the Pratt Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 244g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 158 x 238 x 13 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9789493148420\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chris Lee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44123416068346,"sku":"9789493148420","price":18.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/noImage_1_30990e9a-94ae-4b3c-9531-aa420301771b.jpg?v=1679676561","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/immutable-designing-history-9789493148420","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}