Fear and knowing: design disasters

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This paper discusses the use of fear and the unknown in the practice of communication design, and\ntheir merits as a part of design research projects. It reflects upon a participatory poster series to reveal\nsome of the underlying issues for design practice and research. It looks at this 'disastrous' design\nproject to investigate the possibility of new knowledge, new learning and greater inclusivity in design\npractice being facilitated through design failure.\nThe project was a very small, short timeframe, collaborative project, designed to include audience\nresponse directly. The work of the project itself is not necessarily the subject of this paper; it is the\nimpact of that work, on audience, on the authors/designers, on research, and as a means to develop\ncritical design practice.\nThe paper examines that which we might lose, as designers, if we aim to use established design\nknowledge to control a projects' outcomes and remove all fear of failure. I

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