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Zoy Anastassakis is a designer and anthropologist. She is Associate Professor at Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she coordinates the research group Laboratorio de Design e Antropologia (Design and Anthropology Laboratory), and was Director from 2016 to 2018. In 2018, she was invited as a guest researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Since 2019, she has been an associate researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) in Lisbon, Portugal. Marcos Martins is a designer and Associate Professor at Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he was Deputy Director from 2016 to 2018. His work as a designer ranges across several fields, and his research seeks to open design to intersections with other domains such as art, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis and education. Since his post-doctoral research at Princeton University, USA in 2018, he investigates social media interfaces through a historical and critical perspective.
Zoy Anastassakis and Marcos Martins take us on a personal journey through the challenges of leadership, management and teaching in a design school during times of uncertainty, precariousness and government neglect in Brazil. Weaving together stories of everyday experiences demonstrating at once alternative ways of thinking design acts, the resilience of educators and students, and the bonds that are developed when a situation and a state is on the brink of collapse, this book is an urgent read for all design students and educators. -- Dana Abdullah, University of the Arts London, UK In this account of a present intensively lived, Anastassakis and Martins reveal the individual struggles and collective actions of ESDI’s prodigious community of precarious lives. Reimagining the first and foremost design education institution in Brazil, Latin America and the Portuguese language demanded shuffling functions, challenging privileges and questioning conventions. But also claiming resistance, vulnerability, care, interdependence, coexistence and solidarity as essential terms of a design lexicon they generously share with us in this momentous book. -- Frederico Duarte, University of Lisbon, Portugal Hope is perhaps the element to be harnessed in a time that insists on oppressing and in which different ways of doing things are designed to circumvent the investments of domination. In these margins, scribbling is the act of imprinting life, whether it be to inscribe battles and continuity, or to strike through the logics that paint a world obsessed with a single, exclusive method. Education, when it becomes an inventive and radical stroke of life, affirms itself as an ordinary task, as everyday acts that give other contours to the margins. -- Luiz Rufino, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil
