DiSalvo, C: Adversarial Design

Carl DiSalvo is Assistant Professior of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology.

"There's a new HCI in town, and Carl DiSalvo is one of its most thoughtful proponents. Lively, timely, provocative and inspiring, Adversarial Design sets out a manifesto for engaged design practice that moves beyond usability and sees interactive technology as an active site of civic and political discourse."--Paul Dourish, University of California, Irvine; Author of Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing "In Adversarial Design, Carl DiSalvo discusses a fascinating group of projects that enable agonistic activity within the democratic process. DiSalvo's authoritative account of this work brings valuable new insights to the vital question of how art, design, and technology inform each other in unprecedented ways to achieve political ends."--Victor Margolin, Emeritus Professor of Design History, University of Illinois, Chicago "This is a great little book about critical design, making design matter again, in practice and public space. In arguing for adversarial design of computational artifacts, Carl DiSalvo goes far beyond the artistic gallery exhibition approach. What is suggested is design that critically opens up controversial and contested issues in society. Such design is openly political, embracing public contestation and dissensus as fundamental aspects of a vibrant democracy."--Pelle Ehn, Interaction Design, Malmo University, Sweden " Adversarial Design is a sharp and insightful exploration of design's largely untapped potential to be truly political, and is essential reading for any designer striving to move beyond the limitations of current design thinking, discourse and practice."--Anthony Dunne, Head of the Design Interactions Programme, Royal College of Art