Civic City - Cahier 2 - Bedford Press 2010 Africa For the first and only

For the first and only time

Texts by Will Grohmann

Viola Bill

edited on the occasion of the exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel

Civic City - Cahier 2 - Bedford Press 2010 Africa For the first and onlyGui Bonsiepe: Design and Democracy Rejecting the economically narrowed neoliberal definition of democracy, Gui Bonsiepe claims for the potential of design to promote democracy. Design and Democracy introduces a concept of design activities that aim to interpret the needs of social groups and to develop viable emancipative proposals in the form of material and semiotic artifacts. This short text is accompanied by an interview with the author and a