Guy Julier
Biographic Data
| ID | 6010435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy Julier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy |
| FAMILY NAME | Julier |
| SIGNATURE | JULIER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria and Albert Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0416-5764 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Doing Design Culture Studies; Practicing Design Culture
Pictograms for resistance: Historicity and militant design research in Amazonian Ecuador
This article focuses on the experiences of developing and using pictograms as visual devices to support Indigenous communities of Amazonian Ecuador. It recognizes the imbalances and contradictions amidst the complex histories and identities of a Latin American state such as Ecuador. The authors emphasize the need to decolonize the design activist imagination and highlight two key issues. The first is in appreciating how historicity operates in th…
Qualitative findings from a systematic review: Visual arts engagement for adults with mental health conditions1
This article reports on an investigation of the effects of ‘visual arts’-based programmes on subjective well-being (SWB) outcomes for adults with mental health conditions. In a systematic review, electronic databases were searched for articles published from January 2007 to April 2017. Grey literature completed from January 2014 to April 2017 was also considered. Six published articles of mostly moderate quality and six evaluation reports (grey l…
Keeping the System Going: Social Design and the Reproduction of Inequalities in Neoliberal Times
The reproduction of inequalities is a necessary product of neoliberal economic systems. Meanwhile, attempts to ameliorate this within social design actually perpetuate this situation. This, we argue, is partly due to the institutional configuration of design whose precarious professional norms mitigate against long-term consolidation. Relatedly, this struggle for recognition produces a kind of performativity of social design that draws the focus …
What works for wellbeing? A systematic review of wellbeing outcomes for music and singing in adults
Economies of Design
How are the rise of design and neoliberalism connected? How does design change the way we operate as economic beings? What is the economic significance of design?Historically, design has been promoted for itsfor its capacity to add valueto products and services. In contemporary capitalism, however, it assumes a more central and more complex role. Design today is both influenced by, and actively shapes, our economic systems. This ground-breaking b…
Consultant social design, austerity and citizenry
Social design has emerged as a broad set of designerly approaches to societal challenges. With falling public sector budgets and failing economies, social design, as carried through professional, consultant practices rather than in its voluntarist or activist modes, is understood to work as a smart, fast way of seeing us through these. Outsourcing, Outcome-Based Budgeting and the stirring up of traditional governance systems and responsibilities …
Spatial Planning and Design Citizenship
Global Design Activism Survey
From Design Culture to Design Activism
Design culture has emerged as a broadly applied term in the past decade. Analytically, we can take it to describe the networking of the domains of design, production, and consumption within which questions of value, circulation, and practice reside. The reflexive promotion of design cultures and the enrollment of subjects and objects into its cause are taken to be of particular importance within neoliberalism. Since design cultures are networks, …
Economies of Seeing
Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work , by Anne Balsamo
Political Economies of Design Activism and the Public Sector
In recent years design activism has emerged in alliance with a number of global political issues including responses to Peak Oil, climate change, food shortages, social justice, the digital divide, demographic change, military conflict, sexual equality and orientation, financialisation and global economic recession.
Building resilience and well‐being in the Margins within the City: Changing perceptions, making connections, realising potential, plugging resources leaks
Regeneration policy in the UK has failed to deliver real gains for many of the inner‐city neighbourhoods that it was meant to help, but particularly those on the margins of our most prosperous and affluent city centres. In Leeds in 2008 an independent group of professionals came together through a project called ‘Margins within the City’ to challenge thinking about regeneration in the city. We wanted to find new ways of understanding the neighbou…
Entries
Design and Creativity: Policy, Management and Practice
Design and other creative industries not only shape our lives in numerous ways, providing ‘cultural’ goods such as films, music and magazines, but also shape the look and feel of everyday objects and spaces. The creative industries are also important economically; governments and businesses now make considerable efforts to manage creativity for a range of political and economic ends. Does the management of design conflict with traditional ideas o…
Value, Relationality and Unfinished Objects: Guy Julier Interview with Scott Lash and Celia Lury
This “dialog” features an edited conversation with sociologists Scott Lash and Celia Lury. It explores their recent thinking in relation to political economy, critical theory, design and branding. Primarily, it opens up a discussion regarding the role of design objects, value and relationality. This perceives them not as fixed things fulfilling finite use-values, but as objects that are located within flows of meaning and capital. These have move…
Design Practice within a Theory of Practice
Urban Designscapes and the Production of Aesthetic Consent
Studies on the identity formation of urban centres and the use of aesthetic markers within that regeneration process largely fall into two camps that reflect their respective academic provenance. On the one hand, this effect is assessed by reference to urban planning and architectural processes. Here, the interest is firmly in the design hardware of buildings, streets and public spaces and how they are used to differentiate and communicate. On th…
Barcelona Design, Catalonia's Political Economy, and the New Spain, 1980 1986
Barcelona Design, Catalonia’s Political Economy, and the New Spain, 1980–1986 GUY JULIER GUY JULIER Leeds Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Design History, Volume 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 117–127, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/9.2.117 Published: 01 January 1996
Urban Designscapes and the Production of Aesthetic Consent
Studies on the identity formation of urban centres and the use of aesthetic markers within that regeneration process largely fall into two camps that reflect their respective academic provenance. On the one hand, this effect is assessed by reference to urban planning and architectural processes. Here, the interest is firmly in the design hardware of buildings, streets and public spaces and how they are used to differentiate and communicate. On th…
From Design Culture to Design Activism
Design culture has emerged as a broadly applied term in the past decade. Analytically, we can take it to describe the networking of the domains of design, production, and consumption within which questions of value, circulation, and practice reside. The reflexive promotion of design cultures and the enrollment of subjects and objects into its cause are taken to be of particular importance within neoliberalism. Since design cultures are networks, …
Building resilience and well‐being in the Margins within the City: Changing perceptions, making connections, realising potential, plugging resources leaks
Regeneration policy in the UK has failed to deliver real gains for many of the inner‐city neighbourhoods that it was meant to help, but particularly those on the margins of our most prosperous and affluent city centres. In Leeds in 2008 an independent group of professionals came together through a project called ‘Margins within the City’ to challenge thinking about regeneration in the city. We wanted to find new ways of understanding the neighbou…
Value, Relationality and Unfinished Objects: Guy Julier Interview with Scott Lash and Celia Lury
This “dialog” features an edited conversation with sociologists Scott Lash and Celia Lury. It explores their recent thinking in relation to political economy, critical theory, design and branding. Primarily, it opens up a discussion regarding the role of design objects, value and relationality. This perceives them not as fixed things fulfilling finite use-values, but as objects that are located within flows of meaning and capital. These have move…
Consultant social design, austerity and citizenry
Social design has emerged as a broad set of designerly approaches to societal challenges. With falling public sector budgets and failing economies, social design, as carried through professional, consultant practices rather than in its voluntarist or activist modes, is understood to work as a smart, fast way of seeing us through these. Outsourcing, Outcome-Based Budgeting and the stirring up of traditional governance systems and responsibilities …
Barcelona Design, Catalonia's Political Economy, and the New Spain, 1980 1986
Barcelona Design, Catalonia’s Political Economy, and the New Spain, 1980–1986 GUY JULIER GUY JULIER Leeds Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Design History, Volume 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 117–127, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/9.2.117 Published: 01 January 1996
Urban Designscapes and the Production of Aesthetic Consent
Studies on the identity formation of urban centres and the use of aesthetic markers within that regeneration process largely fall into two camps that reflect their respective academic provenance. On the one hand, this effect is assessed by reference to urban planning and architectural processes. Here, the interest is firmly in the design hardware of buildings, streets and public spaces and how they are used to differentiate and communicate. On th…
Design Practice within a Theory of Practice
Entries
Design and Creativity: Policy, Management and Practice
Design and other creative industries not only shape our lives in numerous ways, providing ‘cultural’ goods such as films, music and magazines, but also shape the look and feel of everyday objects and spaces. The creative industries are also important economically; governments and businesses now make considerable efforts to manage creativity for a range of political and economic ends. Does the management of design conflict with traditional ideas o…
Value, Relationality and Unfinished Objects: Guy Julier Interview with Scott Lash and Celia Lury
This “dialog” features an edited conversation with sociologists Scott Lash and Celia Lury. It explores their recent thinking in relation to political economy, critical theory, design and branding. Primarily, it opens up a discussion regarding the role of design objects, value and relationality. This perceives them not as fixed things fulfilling finite use-values, but as objects that are located within flows of meaning and capital. These have move…
Political Economies of Design Activism and the Public Sector
In recent years design activism has emerged in alliance with a number of global political issues including responses to Peak Oil, climate change, food shortages, social justice, the digital divide, demographic change, military conflict, sexual equality and orientation, financialisation and global economic recession.
Building resilience and well‐being in the Margins within the City: Changing perceptions, making connections, realising potential, plugging resources leaks
Regeneration policy in the UK has failed to deliver real gains for many of the inner‐city neighbourhoods that it was meant to help, but particularly those on the margins of our most prosperous and affluent city centres. In Leeds in 2008 an independent group of professionals came together through a project called ‘Margins within the City’ to challenge thinking about regeneration in the city. We wanted to find new ways of understanding the neighbou…
Economies of Seeing
Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work , by Anne Balsamo
Global Design Activism Survey
From Design Culture to Design Activism
Design culture has emerged as a broadly applied term in the past decade. Analytically, we can take it to describe the networking of the domains of design, production, and consumption within which questions of value, circulation, and practice reside. The reflexive promotion of design cultures and the enrollment of subjects and objects into its cause are taken to be of particular importance within neoliberalism. Since design cultures are networks, …
Spatial Planning and Design Citizenship
Economies of Design
How are the rise of design and neoliberalism connected? How does design change the way we operate as economic beings? What is the economic significance of design?Historically, design has been promoted for itsfor its capacity to add valueto products and services. In contemporary capitalism, however, it assumes a more central and more complex role. Design today is both influenced by, and actively shapes, our economic systems. This ground-breaking b…
Consultant social design, austerity and citizenry
Social design has emerged as a broad set of designerly approaches to societal challenges. With falling public sector budgets and failing economies, social design, as carried through professional, consultant practices rather than in its voluntarist or activist modes, is understood to work as a smart, fast way of seeing us through these. Outsourcing, Outcome-Based Budgeting and the stirring up of traditional governance systems and responsibilities …
What works for wellbeing? A systematic review of wellbeing outcomes for music and singing in adults
Keeping the System Going: Social Design and the Reproduction of Inequalities in Neoliberal Times
The reproduction of inequalities is a necessary product of neoliberal economic systems. Meanwhile, attempts to ameliorate this within social design actually perpetuate this situation. This, we argue, is partly due to the institutional configuration of design whose precarious professional norms mitigate against long-term consolidation. Relatedly, this struggle for recognition produces a kind of performativity of social design that draws the focus …
Qualitative findings from a systematic review: Visual arts engagement for adults with mental health conditions1
This article reports on an investigation of the effects of ‘visual arts’-based programmes on subjective well-being (SWB) outcomes for adults with mental health conditions. In a systematic review, electronic databases were searched for articles published from January 2007 to April 2017. Grey literature completed from January 2014 to April 2017 was also considered. Six published articles of mostly moderate quality and six evaluation reports (grey l…
Pictograms for resistance: Historicity and militant design research in Amazonian Ecuador
This article focuses on the experiences of developing and using pictograms as visual devices to support Indigenous communities of Amazonian Ecuador. It recognizes the imbalances and contradictions amidst the complex histories and identities of a Latin American state such as Ecuador. The authors emphasize the need to decolonize the design activist imagination and highlight two key issues. The first is in appreciating how historicity operates in th…
Doing Design Culture Studies; Practicing Design Culture
Political science (11 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (5 works) · Public relations (5 works)