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The Politics of Design: Design as Transformation of Sense

Ahn YoungJoo 1

1건국대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study contemplates the perspective of Jacques Rancière to judge the political possibility of design. Rancière argued the political issue under its close association with aesthetics so that it offers the available route for the art or the design to access. In addition, for Rancière, politics are presented not in an agreed form but in that of ‘dissensus’ with disparate sentiments, where the controversial situation of disparate languages acts as possibility to overthrow the existing order.Furthermore, it presents several cases of design implying political potential; first, the case that the identical objects suggest cultural difference by topological positioning(Super Normal). Second, the case that turning the given, unique ‘functionality’ of object into ‘usability’ causes difference(Disobedient Objects). All of these cases make design arouse its political possibility by new sentimental division upon it in the scope of everyday life. Following all the discussions above, this study makes an attempt to arouse a discourse on its political possibility. This discussion has a noticeable significance in terms of its trial to estimate new possibility of the existing design. AbstractThe Politics of Design:Design as Transformation of SenseYoungjoo Ahn

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.