The books we looked in the lecture were Carl Disalvo's Advirsary's Design and Tony Fry's Design as Politics.
Carl Disalvo is interested in design activism " Agonist Pluralism " -> Cacophony of voices that functions as the ground of democracy -> design activism film " This is what democracy looks like "
One example of activism we looked at was The Suffragette movement lead by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1858 - 1928.
-graphic interventions
-media spectacles
- protest displays
"Noisy Pluralism"
Million Dollar Blocks Project - Data Visualisation Heat map - a metaphor of noise- heat, social identity is driven by raw material vision of how we get to identity driven by difference.
Idea of heat map -> contemporary way of data visualisation
"Multiplicity" -> Society built on noisy foundation
Tony Fry: makes distinctions between politics and the political. Design is in the service of politics.
Democracy is a representational idea -> takes noise of culture -> minimised through investment of people -> one voice to represent all.
All noise lost through one voice.
Listens to grass roots of noise through data visualisation maps. Design tames noise but also can reveal it again.
Multiplicity: Noise in society
Pluralism: Recognises differences between people through idea of representation
Two other books mentioned were:
Daniel Bons' Twentieth Century Multiplicity
Sanford, Kintess' Architecture of Time
Henry Adams coined 'Multiplicity' - "Vertiginous unmooring of existence"
- Talks about new way of thinking
At the level of politics multiplicity ultimately falls out of favour with the onset of WW1 (pulling together).
