Through Witnessing: Threading the critiquing, making, teaching of design children ” – Adriano Batista

” – Adriano Batista

As he engaged with village life

its practical function as design is strengthened

Design thinking has created divisions in the discipline: either designers are too theory driven or simply practitioners

Through Witnessing: Threading the critiquing, making, teaching of design children ” – Adriano BatistaThis book names and wrestles with design and institutional design educations pseudo neutral relationship with colonial capitalist world orders and what it means to teach and design today. It slowly weaves together ideas on designing as a mechanism of maintenance and teaching against bureaucratic inertia. How does design give form to social fictions? How does design and the professionalization of design schooling maintain the priorities of nations and