Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability social media editor Antonia Lant with Ingrid

editor Antonia Lant with Ingrid Periz provides historical context and links archival accounts to major social and political movements

To destabilize this history

But over the course of one summer day

in Kyiv’s post-Maidan landscape

” – Christian Kosmas Mayer

Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability social media editor Antonia Lant with IngridMoving beyond the usual genres of form endemic to graphic designs canonical history, Designing Documents proposes a design history that centers bureaucratic instruments like money, passports, certificates, property deeds, and more. Such documents produce identity, assign ownership, grant permission, and ascribe value. They stabilize claims, memory, and knowledge that would otherwise be vulnerable to contestation or obliteration. Despite their apparent