Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Anne-Marie Willis -- The essence of design. -- Introduction -- The fault of Epimetheus / Bernard Stiegler -- In the beginning / Tony Fry -- A cautious Prometheus?: a few steps toward a philosophy of design / Bruno Latour -- The depth of design / Albert Borgmann -- Design as an ontological question / Tony Fry -- Guide to further reading -- The practice of design. -- Introduction -- Science, art and practical wisdom / Aristotle -- The complication of Praxis / William McNeill -- Technicity and publicness: steps towards an urban space / Stephen Read -- The existential self as the locus of sustainability in design / Philippe d'Anjou -- The science of the concrete / Claude Levi-Strauss -- The textility of making / Tim Ingold -- Guide to further reading -- The ethos of design. -- Introduction -- Artifacts: the making sentient of the external world / Elaine Scarry -- Ethics by design or the ethos of things / Cameron Tonkinwise -- Precariousness and grievability / Jusith Butler -- The one for the other / Adriaan Peperzak -- Ethics in the making / Bodil Jönsson, et al -- Guide to further reading -- Design and the other. -- Introduction -- What is coloniality of knowledge? / Madina V. Tlostanova -- Enframing / Timothy Mitchell -- The violence of humanitarian design / Mahmoud Keshavarz -- The force of form, the effect of genre / Francois Jullien -- Why not an alphabet? / Lothar Ledderose -- Guide to further reading -- Being designed and things. -- Introduction -- The thing / Martin Heidegger -- Materialism in not the solution: on matter and form / Graham Harman -- Is design finished?: dematerialisation and changing things / Cameron Tonkinwise -- Beyond Affordances / Michael May -- Understanding, ontology, thrownness and readiness-to-hand / Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores -- Smart meters don't make us any smarter / Elizabeth Shove and Sarah Royston -- Matter and mattering or Why are things "us"? / Clive Dilnot -- Guide to further reading -- The designing of technology. -- Introduction -- Technology: instrumental metaphor and cybernetic system / Adrian Snodgrass -- The question concerning technology / Martin Heidegger -- Technical mentality / Gilbert Simondon, translated by Arne De Boever -- The finite framework of language / Michael Heim -- 'This system does not produce pleasure anymore' / Bernard Stiegler -- Guide to further reading -- The designing of visuality. -- Introduction -- On form and imitation / Plato -- The Plato effect in architecture / Christopher N. Henry -- An art which imitates art / Pierre Bourdieu -- Sign function and class logic / Jean Baudrillard -- The production of space / Henri Lefebvre -- Guide to further reading -- Designing after the end. -- Introduction -- What is the anthro-political? / Claire Colebrook -- The intrusion of Gaia / Isabelle Stengers -- Cosmoecological sheep and the arts of living on a damaged planet / Viniciane Despret -- Outing artificial intelligence: reckoning with Turing tests / Benjamin H. Bratton -- The posthuman / Rosi Braidotti -- Introducing 'the sustainment' / Tony Fry -- Spinoza and us / Gilles Deleuze -- Guide to further reading

Design Philosophy is becoming increasingly important as the nature of design practice and design education change. This book presents and explains the recent emergence of Design Philosophy, illustrates the main concerns of Design Philosophy and demonstrates why Design Philosophy has emerged in recent years, why it is needed, what it can do, how it can be done and where it is going. Comprised of an eight thematic sections, each with a short introduction, to contextualise theory and highlight its implications, and annotated bibliographies, the Reader presents both an argument for the need for Design Philosophy and an overview of its emergence. With texts ranging from writing on design that is informed by philosophy; philosophically informed writing on culture, relevant to the thinking of design; ancient and contemporary philosophy that directly, or by implication, addresses design; and exegesis and commentary on philosophical texts relevant to design