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The Design of Dissent: Graphic Design for Socio-Political Engagement

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dc.contributor.advisorCabianca, David
dc.creatorRudnicki, Justine Caroline
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-27T13:52:33Z
dc.date.available2017-07-27T13:52:33Z
dc.date.copyright2017-04-13
dc.date.issued2017-07-27
dc.date.updated2017-07-27T13:52:33Z
dc.degree.disciplineDesign
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMDes - Master of Design
dc.description.abstractDesign engages with the political and expresses resistance to hegemonic institutions and ideologies when it employs disruptive visual communication. In a context of contemporary visual communication, images often lack a theoretical and practical framework to create inquiry and social change. Informed by activism, visual rhetoric, political theory, and design criticism, this thesis offers strategies and practices for socio-political engagement by melding these approaches into the discipline of graphic design. This thesis makes the claim that graphic designs relationship with the public interest is one that should not be undervalued. It studies the implications of perception of graphic design work as a means of social change to demonstrate the efficacy of visual communication. This thesis asks designers to evaluate the way we as communicators and citizens express desires, beliefs, and critiques, demonstrating how contestational design exists as socio-political action.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/33601
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectFine arts
dc.subject.keywordsGraphic design
dc.subject.keywordsDesign
dc.subject.keywordsActivism
dc.subject.keywordsAgonism
dc.subject.keywordsVisual rhetoric
dc.subject.keywordsSemiotics
dc.subject.keywordsPoland
dc.subject.keywordsPolish design
dc.subject.keywordsPolish politics
dc.subject.keywordsPolitics
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical science
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical art
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical design
dc.subject.keywordsVisual communication
dc.subject.keywordsSocial design
dc.subject.keywordsCritical design
dc.subject.keywordsDesign activism
dc.subject.keywordsDissent
dc.subject.keywordsDissensus
dc.titleThe Design of Dissent: Graphic Design for Socio-Political Engagement
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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