Future Practice

<p>Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement new kinds of collaboration new kinds of design outcomes and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions. Seventeen conversations with practitioners from the fields of architecture policy activism design education research history community engagement and more each representing an emergent role for designers to occupy. Whether the civic entrepreneur the double agent or the strategic designer this book offers a diverse spectrum of approaches to design each offering a potential future for architectural practice.</p><p>With a foreword by Dan Hill and interviews with Steve Ashton ARM; Bryan Boyer Helsinki Design Lab; Camila Bustamante; Mel Dodd muf_aus; DUS Architects; Jeanne Gang Studio Gang; Reinier de Graaf and Laura Baird AMO; Conrad Hamann; Natalie Jeremijenko xClinic; Indy Johar 00: /;Bruce Mau; Arjen Oosterman and Lilet Breddels <em>Volume</em>; Todd Reisz; Wouter Vanstiphout Crimson; Matt Webb BERG; Marcus Westbury Renew Newcastle; and Liam Young Unknown Fields</p>