Dr Giovanni Marmont
Small Group Project 2022-26
For and Against Change: Temporalities of Disruption in the Expanded Field of Design
With Craig Martin
Originally a key handmaiden of capitalist growth, the field of design has long sought to expand its remit beyond that of commerce. Indeed, designers have increasingly been claiming more ambitious roles in imagining and enacting social arrangements alternative to those that design traditionally helped to materialise. Yet, the drive for design-led change risks becoming overly homogenised, as if the range of different approaches were all gesturing in a similar direction. That direction is a conveniently vague or perhaps too capacious a notion of designing for change.
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Giovanni is a theorist and practitioner working at the intersection of design studies, social and political theory, STS and philosophy of technology. His most recent research has been primarily concerned with the social, cultural, and political dimension of practices of use, considering how these can be a site for the prefiguration of new modes of collectivity. Giovanni's work takes a transdisciplinary approach often combining conceptual, material, and participatory interventions. Other key interests in his research and teaching are critical logistics and border studies, social critiques of individualism and processes of individuation, experimental somatic practices and pedagogies, and affect studies.
Biographical details correct as of 20.04.26