Designing Designing

Book Description

designing designing is one of the most extraordinary books on design ever written. First published in 1984 and reprinted with this title and cover in 1991, the book was the product of ten years of auto-critique, reflection and experimentation on writing on designing.

Offering a savage auto-critique of his own work on “methods”, as well as of the wider methods and ends of advanced industrial societies as a whole, this book challenges the traditional product- and progress- orientated focus on design by insisting that the world now coming into being requires designing to be understood as ‘a response to the whole of life.’

But designing designing is also unique in modern design thinking in its exploration of what writing on designing might be. Combining essays, interviews, reflections, performances, plays, poems, chance procedures, photographs, collages and quotes, Jones experiments with both form and content in an attempt to make a book which ‘is not simply about designing but is instead itself an instance of the ideas and processes explored within it.’

中文：

书名：设计设计

设计设计这是有史以来最非凡的设计书籍之一。这本书于1984年首次出版，1991年以这个标题和封面再版，是十年来对设计写作进行自动批评、反思和实验的产物。

这本书对他自己在“方法”方面的工作，以及对先进工业社会作为一个整体的更广泛的方法和目的进行了野蛮的自动批评，通过坚持认为现在形成的世界要求将设计理解为对整个生活的回应，挑战了传统的以产品和进步为导向的设计。

但设计设计G在现代设计思维中也是独一无二的，它探索了什么是关于设计的写作。琼斯将散文、访谈、反思、表演、戏剧、诗歌、偶然性程序、照片、拼贴和语录结合在一起，尝试用形式和内容来创作一本书，这本书不仅仅是关于设计的，而是其中探索的思想和过程的一个实例。