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April 08, 2004
Public Space
title:
The role, responsibilities and future of CD in public space.
triggers:
communication / design / public space
abstract:
The role of Communication Design in creating public space (whether virtual or real). What responsibilities does CD have to accept in taking part in public space? Does CD show an awareness of public space? How might CD help to better achieve its aims of effective communication, adequate transferral of meaning, aiding and augmenting discourse, creating more interesting and creative spaces, reducing mental strain in highly urbanised spaces, reducing antagonistic marketing practices (eg fear, body image, self-image, pecking order, bullying, teasing, ordering, commanding, insulting, marginalisation, ideology pushing, racial stereotyping, gender stereotyping, promotes monoculture, supporting dominant paradigm, anti-democratic, didactic, religious stereotyping, individualism, divide and conquer, etc), helping to develop new practices/languages in line with utopian future directions. Are there possibilities of new CD languages and forms that might perhaps help to empower greater human connectivity and communication?
Posted by Neal Haslem at April 8, 2004 01:45 PM