How Long to Read Design Unbound

How Long Does it Take to Read Design Unbound?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 6 minutes to read Design Unbound by Ann Pendleton-Jullian

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Design has always been a visionary pursuit and a visionary practice - one that projects the future while remaining deeply grounded in the past and the present. Design is also a socio-cultural practice. The link between vision as a mental activity - imagining a future - and its accomplishment in the world - the building of the imagined future - is design. Design's principal focus is the making of things, whether material entities, virtually produced material entities, or fully virtual entities. Because design's principal enterprise is the making of things that operate in the world - a world unfolding - design is an agent of the future. Design as a literacy is a way of envisioning, thinking and acting simultaneously in the world and is, therefore, applicable to any discipline, field or profession. It has the capacity to catalyze innovations in one's own field, and as a platform, it has the capacity to catalyze distinctive innovation across many fields. We believe it is an essential literacy for the re-calibration of our educational system if we want to prepare our students to both thrive and have agency in their future.Beyond design for making things (good design = beautiful useful things), and design for innovation (good design = distinctly new beautiful and useful things), design shapes contexts for things to happen. Design is a foundational way for encountering, seeing, understanding, and operating in the material world. It absorbs the complexity of the world because it vigorously pursues the relationship between things and the contexts in which they are embedded. These contexts are complex and they are socio-technological in nature. The way we use things is integrally linked to why we use them. But design is also a powerful tool for working on the world as well as in it. Design has a capacity to make things that resonate. Resonance means that there is a strong relationship of exchange. Resonating in the world can lead to change on the world.This book was begun as a quest to decode the DNA of design so as to advance a discussion of design and design literacy in much broader terms. But it was also begun with a strong suspicion that a clearer understanding of this DNA might allow us to think about design in an expanded way and for expanded purpose in an increasingly complex world. Believing that design has a greater role to play than ever before, we set out to figure out how. We looked at examples where design has gone beyond making things for purpose and meaning to actually facilitating processes of transformation through systems of action that work on changing the context itself. In these examples certain characteristics of the DNA have been amplified and the dynamics between characteristics have been altered.Writing from the perspectives of an architect and of an innovation orchestrator, this book consists of thoughts and conversations between the authors. These conversations are presented as frames for further exchange, exploration, and experimentation. Rather than 'hard science', these are a multi-faceted set of related thoughts and ideas, intended to recalibrate the conversation around design in a manner that recognizes existing voices but adds a different set of perspectives. And finally, while meaning to be speculative, this book also intends to contribute at a pragmatic level by suggesting pathways into thinking, creating, and acting so as to affect change in complex contexts and systems. Acting is critical. Acting creates change, which can then be critically assessed relative to the impact and resonance of intended and unintended consequences.

How long is Design Unbound?

Design Unbound by Ann Pendleton-Jullian is 184 pages long, and a total of 46,736 words.

This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Design Unbound Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 15 minutes to read Design Unbound aloud.

What Reading Level is Design Unbound?

Design Unbound is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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