What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion Annette Lees whom John Updike has called

whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites

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What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion Annette Lees whom John Updike has calledA witty, tongue in cheek discussion of designs potentials and pitfalls In focusing on creating preferable conditions, the discipline of design is optimistic by default. And yet, vernacular manifestations of skepticism, dissatisfaction and even resentment toward design abound. Instead of systematically discarding them, can these "sad passions" shed a valuable light on the blind spots of the field? Can disillusion be something more than disillusionment?