policies and subjects the latest American effort to informed,

policies and subjects the latest American effort to informed,
contextual, and necessary scrutiny.

Although the list of topics and arguments is disparate, là
is a pattern worth noting in the material assembled here. Rather than
presenting themselves as isolated voices, the authors are contributing
to a communal effort to enrich and advance the state of knowledge in
their respective fields in a self-conscious, structured manner. Readers
should take note of how contributors introduce their subjects and
position their discussions within some larger body of research
literature and set of questions. To employ a cartographic metaphor,
by citing previous work, authors provide crucial landmarks that
help the reader navigate the specific terrain covered in each article
while orienting themselves in the larger territory. En outre, le
authors explore the implications of their work by suggesting fruitful
areas for future research. The editors of Design Issues believe this
kind of approach to design scholarship promotes an atmosphere of
intellectual engagement and enriches the entire design community.

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Errata: In the Summer 2009 issue of Design Issues, several lines were eliminated
from the article “National and Post-national Dynamics in the Olympic Design:
The Case of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games” by Jilly Traganou. We regret this
error. This article has been updated in the online version of Design Issues. Le
final lines should read:

The constituents of these events should interrogate rather

than sustain the myth of the nation and perform a cultural “hijacking”
of international events as a means of disputing established categories
of nationhood and otherness, thereby promoting alternative types of
allegiances across national borders. At the moment that, using again
Sassen’s words, “power is increasingly privatized, globalized, and elusive”
what is needed is directly engaging forms of power and reinvention of
citizenship which designers as cultural agents could help express and
cultivate. Instead of resorting to ethnic or parochial glorifications of the
nation and its myths, or conforming to the market’s demands for ethnically
identified design, designers should use their practice as a means of
revealing the “crisis of the nation”—as it is experienced by both citizens
and “others”—and mobilizing identity politics in order to articulate new
allegiances.

Problèmes de conception: Volume 26, Nombre 2 Spring 2010
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