Designerly ways of knowing a working inventory of things a designer should know - Danah Abdulla Activism & Politics nourished by the practice of

nourished by the practice of conceptual sculpture

” noting that de Chirico “invented for the occasion a new style and a new kind of novel… his long run-on sentences

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And now with social media everywhere

There is no theory that can support it

Designerly ways of knowing a working inventory of things a designer should know - Danah Abdulla Activism & Politics nourished by the practice ofA guidebook slash notebook of things designers should think about in order for them to know. Design thinking has created divisions in the discipline: either designers are too theory driven or simply practitioners. Those feeling lost can easily turn to a language meant to inspire creative production in easy to pitch ways, where rhetoric uses design to keep power at bay, to celebrate hegemonic beliefs which are used to indoctrinate designers in bad