Making Trouble

Otto von Busch is Associate Professor of Integrated Design at Parsons School of Design, USA. He holds a PhD in design from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and was previously Professor of Textiles at Konstfack University, Sweden. He has published articles in The Design Journal, Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, Fashion Practice, CoDesign Journal, The Journal of Modern Craft, Textile Cloth and Culture, Craft Research, Organizational Aesthetics, Creative Industries Journal and the Journal for Artistic Research, and has contributed chapters on design activism to The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design (2017), The Routledge Companion to Design Research (2015), The Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion (2014), as well as other design anthologies.

• PrefaceBack to MatterActivist MakingAffirmative Making1. Power in the MakingPrimitive MakingMatters and MaterialsMaking between Matter and Meta2. State MetaxuMetaxuState Space - State MatterState Meta in the Matter3. Making MattersMaking LeverageFinding Material LeverageThe Contents of Political Matters4. Making AgencyMaking Change, Making ResistanceMaking Material AgencyManipulating Meta5. Doing and sittingSitting is Not Only SittingRoyal Crafts and Citizen ConsumptionResistant SittingSeated Democracies6. Recursive MattersIntensity vs ScaleMaking Means and Ends MeetPulsation7. Strategic ObjectilesMaterial MobilizationTactical Presence and its LimitationsStitch for Senate8. Material Counter-intelligenceMaterial IntelligenceArtus and MetisThe Cookies of Cunning9. Brewing DissentControlled Substances, Controlled CraftsMisuse and MischiefBuckets of Evidence10. Designing BackMaking Civics TangibleDesign and ActivismMaterial Civic Dissidence11. Trouble Making and Counter-craftsDangerous MakingsMapping Material Activism12. Make it SimpleMaking Action SpacesMaking CalisthenicsStay Matter!

This book will change your understanding of activism, design, and politics, fundamentally. Buy it, steal it, or read it, but most importantly: start redesigning things in your life!