Description: A hopeful meditation on how periods of inactivity become reimagined as fertile spaces for design and how we might use this strange moment in history.
Hi, everyone. I'm speaking to you from my apartment in Oakland, though I've virtually placed myself in the rose garden nearby.
Artist and writer Jenny Odell hadn't originally planned to deliver the Harvard University Graduate School of Design's 2020 Class Day Address from her living room. But on May 25, 2020, there was Jenny, framed by a rose garden in her Zoom background, speaking to an audience she could not see about the role of design in a suspended moment marked by uncertainty in a global pandemic. Odell's message, itself a timely reflection on observation, embraces the standstill and its potential to deepen and expand our individual and collective attention and sensitivity to time, place, and presence--in turn, perhaps, enabling us all, amid our new virtual contexts, to better connect with our natural and cultural environments.
Odell unspools this hopeful meditation in Inhabiting the Negative Space, where periods of inactivity become reimagined not as wasted time but fertile spaces for a kind of design predicated less on relentless production and more on permitting a deeper, more careful look at what exactly is demanding or tapping our time and attention, and how we might use this strange moment in history to respond.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Inhabiting the Negative Space
Number of Pages: 80 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Topic: History / Contemporary (1945-), Criticism & Theory, Study & Teaching
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.4 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art
Item Weight: 3.1 Oz
Item Length: 7 in
Author: Jenny Odell
Book Series: Sternberg Press / the Incidents Ser.
Item Width: 4.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
