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Spring 2011
Design and the Body
In 1989, artist (and former Parsons student) Barbara Kruger famously claimed, "Your body is a battleground," crystallizing an era of embodied politics. Now more than ever the body is a site of complex issues, given the rise of increasingly sophisticated prosthetics, humanlike robots, life-enhancing technologies, and evolving notions of identity and self. Where does the body end and technology begin? How have concepts of the body changed over time? This issue of re:D explores artists' and designers' responses to such questions of the flesh.
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- accessories design
- ADHT
- All-Parsons
- AMT
- animation
- architectural criticism
- architectural history
- architecture
- art criticism
- art history
- branding
- business design
- color theory
- computer graphics (CG)
- criticism
- cultural studies
- curatorial practice
- data visualization
- design criticism
- design history
- design management
- design research
- documentary
- drawing
- editorial design
- education
- entrepreneurship
- exhibition design
- fabrication
- Fashion
- fashion design
- fashion history
- fashion marketing
- fashion studies
- fashion sustainability
- fashion technology
- film
- footwear
- furniture design
- game design
- graphic design
- graphic novel
- illustration
- information design
- installation
- integrative fashion
- interface design
- interior design
- lighting
- lighting design
- management
- marketing
- materials
- menswear
- Milano
- mobile media
- motion graphics
- new genres
- painting
- performance
- photography
- physical computing
- printmaking
- product design
- programming
- public relations
- publication design
- SCE
- sculpture
- SDS
- service design
- sewing
- social innovation
- social media
- sound design
- SPACE
- spatial environments
- spatial graphics
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- sustainable design
- textiles
- theory
- transdisciplinary design
- typography
- urban design
- urban ecologies
- urban studies
- usability
- video
- visual culture studies
- womenswear
