Visualization As Assemblage: A Framework to Apply Modesty, Ethics, and Attachment to a Critical Design Practice - Softcover

Davila, Patricio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9083499383 ISBN 13: 9789083499383

Verlag: Set Margins' publications, 2025

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How data visualization can be harnessed as a critical design practice as shown through three sociopolitical case studies

Visualization is a form of design practice that deploys representational processes of enormous rhetorical and analytical power. What is often left out of the picture is the network of processes which it assembles and the nonvisual effects it produces. Building upon the arguments of Latour, Deleuze and Guattari, author Patricio Dávila applies an assemblage framework to three case studies offering distinct instances of critical visualization practices: Liquid Traces (2014), from Forensic Architecture; Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (2013–), from the San Francisco Tenants Union; and In the Air, Tonight (2013–16), from the Public Visualization Lab/Studio. Dávila underscores an ethics of visualization that refocuses criticality on the potential of design to act modestly by revealing its own construction.
Patricio Dávila is a designer, artist, researcher and educator. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, at York University.

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Visualization is a form of design practice that deploys representational processes of enormous rhetorical and analytical power. What is often left out of the picture is the network of processes which it assembles and the non-visual effects it produces. This book asks how visualization can operate as a critical design practice that attends to the representational and performative processes it arranges. To look at this form of power in design, the book reviews Bruno Latour’s interpretation of design as a form of modest restyling and arrangement. It also addresses this question through the use of an alignment between Latour’s development of actor-network theory and Deleuze and Guattari’s assemblage theory which allows to both describe how things and processes mobilize knowledge and how human subjectivity emerges from human-nonhuman entanglements, respectively.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Set Margins' publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9083499383
• ISBN 13: 9789083499383
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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