Lauren Peters | Rule Making | Unruly Design: Making, Changing and Breaking Rules

Presented by Parsons School of Design (http://newschool.edu/parsons/). UNRULY DESIGN: MAKING, CHANGING AND BREAKING RULES A colloquium in Design Studies, Fashion Studies, History of Design & Curatorial Studies Session 2 - RULE MAKING Dangerous Curves: Disciplining the Fat, Female Body Through Design Discourse - Lauren Downing Peters, Centre for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University The New School | http://newschool.edu “Unruly Design” explores the rules that govern design concepts, acts of making and fashion practices both historically and in today’s context. Who sets the rules within a design field, designers, clients, consumers or end-users? How should designers engage the legal structures that bind production and consumption and/or respond to market forces? How might consumers and end-users rewrite explicit or implicit codes of use through practice? How are the rules of design made, changed or broken? Discussions will move across several fields of design— from design history to fashion studies; design studies to intersections of design with artistic practices—taking into account current historical and contemporary perspectives including policy making and service design. This two-day colloquium responds to current discussions on the inherent political and ethical implication of design practices, as well as an expanded cultural terrain where the idea of design has become mainstream. This series of interventions and conversations navigates the complex relationship of