ABSTRACT
In the November 2014 edition of Design and Culture, the journal of the Design Studies Forum, Stuart Kendall provided the following abstract for his chapter ‘Positioning Design Studies: An Institutional Challenge’:
The general economic view of design studies proposed here outlines an unstable, heterogeneous, multiply-oriented, multivalent, multidisciplinary, polydiscursive space. General economy does not provide a singular new metadiscourse of design or design practice. Rather it recognizes that no new metadiscourse is possible. As a critical tool, one value of general economy is its ability to help us productively parse the limits of intentionality in design practice. As a heterogeneous community, it is a community connected through dissensus. The dissensus of design studies is the motivating absence animating the university.
