Critical Design / De-signing Critique: A Workshop

A workshop on design and the pressing issues the contemporary globalizing world conjures. Topics under consideration included: cultures of commodification and commodification of cultures; the importance of design to capital today; architecture and the design of cities; interior design or the re-emergence of privacy and phantasmagorias of the interior; new media and digital technologies in the shifting terrain between book and web design; fakes, fashion, and global commodities; branding and packaging; cinema as critique of space and affectivity; music and cultural memory; visual arts and visual culture; censorship and other constraints on design. Convened by David Theo Goldberg and Ackbar Abbas, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine.