Social Matter, Social Design

Social Matter, Social Design challenges the way we look at, think of, and interact with the social world by emphasising the role of materiality. This enlarged field for engagement demands that design incorporates a more nuanced and complex reading of how the social is intertwined with the material, which confronts the often reductive or simplistic notion of ‘social design’, and offers novel forms of critical and meaningful engagement at a time of mounting social contradictions.

This book’s essays explore and unveil uncanny, disconcerting or discordant connections, bricolages, assumptions, or breaches at critical junctures for transformation. They are centred around four major themes: the body; earth; the political; and technology.