cameron tonkinwise

• BA Hons 1, PhD
• Professor at University of Technology Sydney

In this paper, we reflect on a collaborative design research process involving 46 diverse participants, including citizen, community, council and commercial representatives to co-design an alternative approach to ‘The Circular Economy’ in the settler-colonial Australian context. Through two workshops that drew on Transition Design and Frame Creatio...

In their new book, Graeber and Wengrow (2021) document the myriad societies and the amount of experimentation and change in social organization that is evident in the archaeological record. Although this controversial macrohistory does not directly speak to non-architectural design studies, I argue that the book should be read by designers, because...

The materiality of service design lies with the people involved in service interactions. Services are people’s daily jobs, things that structure their lives, roles they play when collaboratively creating value. Services are experienced through bodies, from the fingers and eyes that trace lines around screens to the weary legs that have hurried alon...

El desafío central de la era actual es la transición hacia la sostenibilidad. Esta transición debe definirse en los términos más amplios posibles. Es un proyecto que es a la vez político, social, económico, cultural, científico y tecnológico: cada dimensión de los asuntos humanos se ve desafiada por la necesidad de transición y, a medida que varios...

El siguiente documento tiene como objetivo proporcionar algo de la historia y la teoría del diseño que se está utilizando en la Escuela de Diseño de la Universidad Carnegie Mellon en su esfuerzo por constituir la práctica del Diseño para la Transición. Explica cómo la profesión y la disciplina del diseño están experimentando una rápida expansión y...

The architectural historian and critic Kenneth Frampton ‘never recovered’ from the force of Hannah Arendt’s teaching at The New School in New York. The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein considers her the most perceptive political theorist and observer of ‘dark times’ (a concept which, drawing from Brecht, she made her own). Building on the revival o...

El Diseño para la Transición requiere un tipo diferente de diseñador, uno que no esté sujeto a los mismos tipos de motivaciones y satisfactores que han regido al diseño durante el último siglo. Este capítulo articula la psicología de los Diseñadores para la Transición mientras luchan por un cambio rápido a nivel de sistema. Como resultado, el quid...

Designing Cultures of Care brings together an international selection of design researchers who, through a variety of design approaches, are exploring the ways in which design intersects with cultures of care. Unique in its focus and disciplinary diversity, this edited collection develops an expanded discourse on the role and contribution of design...

Tricky Things responds to the burgeoning of scholarly interest in the cultural meanings of objects, by addressing the moral complexity of certain designed objects and systems. The volume brings together leading international designers, scholars and critics to explore some of the ways in which the practice of design and its outcomes can have a dark...

Though designing is cast as a creative practice, materializing preferable ways of being, it does so only by destroying current products, habits and values. I argue that designers must learn to acknowledge and take responsibility for this destructive side to their practice. Designers can cultivate their destructive capacities and deploy those agains...

Practice-based Design Research provides a companion to masters and PhD programs in design research through practice. The contributors address a range of models and approaches to practice-based research, consider relationships between industry and academia, researchers and designers, discuss initiatives to support students and faculty during the res...

Encountering Things brings together leading design scholars to explore the relationship between thing theory and design, exploring production processes and offering an engaging, theoretical perspective about the social and cultural lives of objects. Focusing on the themes of process and product, the contributors investigate the productive interplay...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank the residents of Western Sydney who participated in this study as members of three focus groups for their time and generous inputs. We would also like to thank Karen Brown at St Marys Corner Community and Cultural Precinct, Suzy Baker and Linda Wilson at Nepean Area Disabilities Organisation (NADO) and Caroly...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design provides a comprehensive guide to design, with entries on key topics in the history and theory of design, addressing a range of design forms including graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, vehicle and product design. The Encyclopedia provides up-to-date peer reviewed coverage of...

As part of its attempt to resituate the practice of designing within a commitment to facilitating social change toward more sustainable futures, the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University has started talking about ‘Transition Design.’ It is risky to invent yet another term which too easily looks like an appropriative branding exercise, but...

Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby’s new book argues for the value of design projects that speculate about possible futures rather than just realize market-feasible futures. The claim is that our societies, and the industries responsible for furnishing our societies with products and environments, are losing the capacity to envision futures in order to e...

As the founding chair of the first MFA program in design for social innovation, this educator hopes to encourage the many people who want to work at a strategic level using design to solve humanity's major challenges.

This article treats the rise, and perhaps fall, of Design Thinking as a prompt to ask: “What is Design studies?” or rather, “What could Design studies be?” Using the heuristic of a sWOt analysis, it is argued that recent shifts in cultural theory toward material practices afford Design studies opportunities to expand beyond a mere liberal arts supp...

Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately, the choices made by designers are understood...

The current vogue for design in management discourses results in abstractions of the design process that repress the role of aesthetic judgments. This paper offers an explanation as to why design-as-styling is being neglected or concealed, and then explains what is at stake. It theorizes that a key aspect of the agency of designing, as the creation...

Michael Shellenberger has himself noted that the most quoted lines from his infamous essay (with Ted Nordhaus), ‘The Death of Environmentalism’ are the ones in which they accuse environmentalists of not following the lead of Civil Rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr, by instead giving “I have a nightmare” speeches. At one level, the arg...

This paper develops a way of evaluating designed artifacts as research. It focuses deliberately on design, on the generation of new knowledge that can happen when making things for use. It works with an account of the making process proposed by the literary philosopher, Elaine Scarry, as clarified by the sociologist of technology, Bruno Latour. Sca...

An 'object' is what gets in the way, a problem thrown in your path like a projectile (coming as it does from the Latin objectum, Greek problema) ... I come across obstacles in my path (come across the objective, substantial, problematic world); I overturn some of these obstacles (transform them into objects of use, into culture) in order to continu...

“Just as the skill of reading animal tracks will not flourish in a metropolitan setting, so calls for the virtues of courage and care will remain inconsequential in a material culture designed to procure comfortable and individualist life.. Putting matters this way is to clarify also what is at the heart of real ethics. It is not finally the desire...

“We love the beautiful with frugality and knowledge without softness.” This famous phrase from Pericles ' Funeral Oration is often considered foundational for the Western way of living which is now dominating the world. It is supposed to signal the interrelated projects of science and art in a secular world. Westerners, rejecting or losing any sens...

What differentiates service design from all other forms of design is that is primarily the design of p eople, rather than t he d esign of th ings for people. T his m akes ser vice de sign unavoidably po litical. Hu man-centered serv ice d esigning clai ms to n egotiate th ese politics b y enabling i mprovisation i n se rvice r oles, rather t han sc...

CT: Song Dong's Waste Not is the artist's mother's house with everything that was in it during a period of the Chinese government's edict to "waste not." 1 It captures a sense of the volume of materials over time passing through homes, what is not normally visible because we have surprisingly effective waste concealing systems. It makes apparent th...

Evolution is a way of explaining of what results from interrelated random processes, not the mechanism that brings about those results. From the moment of this theory's inception, the danger of extrapolating from evolutionary descriptions to designerly prescriptions has been frequently demonstrated in violent historical contexts. Whilst these momen...