Everyday acts of design : learning in a time of emergency /
"From 2016-2018, teachers and students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil found themselves at the center of a crisis. A new right-wing government suspended payment of staff salaries and student scholarships and stopped funding basic maintenance. Through a multitude of voices, thi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London, UK ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2022.
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| Series: | Designing in dark times.
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| Summary: | "From 2016-2018, teachers and students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil found themselves at the center of a crisis. A new right-wing government suspended payment of staff salaries and student scholarships and stopped funding basic maintenance. Through a multitude of voices, this book tells the story of how the university's design school reacted to the crisis: not with despondency or despair, but by embracing hope and promoting a series of radical teaching experiments. Case histories provide alternatives to conventional forms of design teaching, proving that education can be a site for democracy and the practice of freedom"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350162396 1350162396 9781350162402 135016240X |