De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice throws new light on the terrain between theory and practice in transdisciplinary discourses of design and art. The editors, Elizabeth Grierson, Harriet Edquist, and Hélène Frichot, bring together diverse approaches to design theory, practice, and philosophy from leading scholars in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Themes include spatiality, difference, cultural aesthetics, and identity in the expanded field of place-making and being. The concept that design can bede-signed is presented as a way of exploring different approaches to an experimental and experiential thinking-doing that promises to further open up research possibilities in the fields of design and art thinking and practice. The book enacts a series of cartographic devices to articulate the spaces between theory and practice.

Elizabeth Grierson is professor of art and philosophy at RMIT University.Harriet Edquist is professor of architectural history at RMIT University.Hélène Frichot is assistant professor of critical studies in architecture at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

De-Signing the City: Interventions through Art,Elizabeth GriersonTowards De-Signing: Narrative, Networks and the Open Work,Scott McQuireDesignations,Mark JacksonSigns of Postmemory in Dresden: Restoring the Displaced,Marsha BerryPosed Solitude: Signing a Poetics of Community, Maria OConnor24 Hours Noticing: Designing our Encounters with Place,Laurene Vaughan and Yoko AkamaRepresenting the City: Complementing Science and Technology with Art, William CartwrightEmbodied Encounters: The Photographic Seeds of Rolf de Heer and Peter DjigirrsTen Canoes,Linda DaleyMapping Modernity in Marvellous Melbourne: Ada CambridgesA Womans Friendship,Harriet EdquistMapping an Ethico-Aesthetics for Wet Biotechnological Architectures, Hélène FrichotDigital Organic Design: Architecture, the New Biology and the Knowledge Economy,Karen BurnsDe-Signing as Bio-technological Endosymbiosis, Stephen LooDesign, Second Life and the Hyper Real, Lisa DethridgeHopeful: Biology, Architectural Design and Philosophy, Chris L. SmithDesign and New Materialism, Neil Leach