Introduction to Design Psychology by Eleni Kalantidou
In the age of climate change, psychology and design have been employed through impromptu collaborations to validate solutions and future scenarios. Introduction to Design Psychology contests this approach by proposing an ideological framework for an intentional, joint endeavour between psychology and design.“This subversive book challenges commonly accepted notions of stability and attachment to make a radical proposition that calls for care-fully embracing the axiologies of “Di/De”: Positive destruction, disassembling, detaching and discomforting are advocated as new epistemological and ontological orientations in the face of unsettlement, unhoming, and precarityBringing dominant approaches to design and psychology under scrutiny, and criticizing the pitfalls of their mutual trajectories of universalism, cartesian dualism, and scientification, Eleni Kalantidou reads the two fields in conjunction with each other urging us to overcome their misconceptions and malpractices while restoring their potency of transformation.”
Jilly Traganou, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Parsons School of Design, The New School
“For years, critical academics have argued that the discipline of psychology must learn about mental life by including the psychological humanities. Eleni Kalantidou thoughtfully expands the boundaries of psychology and demonstrates that psychology and design studies mutually invigorate their theories and practices. This relevant book is thoughtfully articulated and convincingly affirms that design psychology is a program that deserves significant intellectual and applied attention.”
Thomas Teo, Professor of Psychology, York University
“Psychology is intrinsic to design practice, is elemental in acquiring a design habitus, and is mobilised in numerous environmental contexts. Yet for all this, design psychology mostly resides in the domain of the unthought. So, what exactly is it? How should it be understood? And, how can it be moved directly into the consciousness of designers, and with what consequence? Eleni Kalantidou’s informative and challenging book provides the means for designers to answer these questions.”
Tony Fry, Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Design, University of Tasmania
Eleni Kalantidou is a design psychologist, strategist, researcher, and senior lecturer at Griffith University, Australia. Her research activities are focused on environmental and social resilience, design strategy, social impact, and social innovation. Kalantidou’s research on repair, community-led behavioural change, resilience, and adaptation has been published in books and journals and funded by grants and consultancies. As a researcher and consultant, she has collaborated with various international, national, and local non-governmental organisations, as well as the public sector.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780367258184 |
| ISBN 10 | 0367258188 |
| Title | Introduction to Design Psychology |
| Author | Eleni Kalantidou |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2025-01-09 |
| Number of pages | 212 |
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