Date of Award
Spring 6-1-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Graphic Design
First Advisor
Minkyoung Kim
Second Advisor
Nora Khan
Third Advisor
Theo Lepage-Richer
Abstract
Jettisoning the Frame: Strategies for Designing at the Threshold explores graphic design’s capacity for facilitating critique and understanding of accelerating systems of technological control and complexity. Working across archives, architectures, and infrastructures, designing at the threshold is an approach that takes the opacity of systems and subjects alike as a starting point from which new possibilities, configurations, and relations emerge. It is a loose methodology predicated on shifting, jettisoning, and reorienting the role and frame of the designer from objectivity to subjectivity. From neutrality to implication. From scientific to messy. From solutionism to something else.
Recommended Citation
Mianecki, Will, "Jettisoning the frame: strategies for designing at the threshold" (2021). Masters Theses. 677.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/677
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