Design Drafts #1 in collaboration with Disegno
Het Nieuwe Instituut's Design Drafts' and Disegno teams are very proud to share the work that Gijs de Boer, Chinouk Filique de Miranda, Kathryn Larsen, Malika Leiper, Bianca Nozaki-Nasser and Andrew Pasquier, the laureates of the first edition of Design Drafts produced. From graphic novels, internal monologues and reframed design histories, to love letters and memes, the results are experimental, insightful and personal, exploring fresh perspectives in design discourse. Design Drafts' first edition is released in a publication available separately and as part of Disegno #34 (order here).
15 September 2022
In spring 2022, Het Nieuwe Instituut (the Netherlands' national museum and institute for architecture, design and digital culture) partnered with Disegno to launch the first edition of Design Drafts, a programme that aims to nurture up-and-coming design writers and forms of writing. Following an open call, a small group of designers, writers and researchers were invited into the programme. Over the course of the summer, Het Nieuwe Instituut and Disegno's teams worked with the applicants to develop original pieces of long-form design writing around the programme's central theme: is design just a game?
The writers were invited to interpret this provocation in any way they chose - a critique of solutionism; an analysis of gamification; an assessment of the field's own internal structures - and were encouraged to explore alternative formats and futures for design writing.
You can buy Disegno 34, which features Design Drafts #1 with contributions by Gijs de Boer, Chinouk Filique de Miranda, Kathryn Larsen, Malika Leiper and Bianca Nozaki-Nasser, over at the website of _Disegno_. Andrew Pasquier's essay 'Night Consumer' can be read on the website of_ Disegno Journal_. A limited amount of copies of Design Drafts #1 is also available at the physical NAi Booksellers store at Het Nieuwe Instituut.