Research by design and collaboration in the perspective of post-soviet ‘nuclear’ town Visaginas –RDCPP-SNTV

Authors

Alla Pigalskaya, European Humanities University, Lithuania

Abstract

The role/perspective of a designer in the interdisciplinary project Mapping Visaginas, a former mono-functional town is studied. Conflict multilingual environment makes reconsider the designers' practice in the context of tensions between authority regulations and everyday communication practices as they are. As well as the re-evaluation of the position of the designer in the process of designing the projects for Visaginas. Language vulnerability of the local people from Visaginas reveals the degree to which designer is used to identifying him/herself with the authority. This raises the question what does is social dunction of designer in the context of changing cultural, political and economic circomstances such as soviet and post-soviet.

Keywords

design research, multilingual typography, modernity, participatory design, post-soviet design

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21606/servdes2018.14

Citation

Pigalskaya, A.(2018) Research by design and collaboration in the perspective of post-soviet ‘nuclear’ town Visaginas –RDCPP-SNTV, in Anna Meroni, Ana María Ospina Medina, Beatrice Villari (eds.), ServDes 2018: Service Design Proof of Concept, 18–20 June, Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.21606/servdes2018.14

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