Social matter, social design: For good or bad, all design is social The Lives of Documents Rossi spent a decade developing

Rossi spent a decade developing a theory of urban design that focused on the “collective memory” of a city as an essential element of its urban planning and gave consideration to how buildings and urban areas age over time

and models along with photographs of selected built works

Sarah Schrank

The book sets out an argument that one of the most dynamic sites of artistic invention in photographic practice over the past decade has been the photographic book

Co-published in 1994 with Yale University Press

Social matter, social design: For good or bad, all design is social The Lives of Documents Rossi spent a decade developingSocial matter, social design challenges the way we look at, think of, and interact with the social world by emphasising the role of materiality. This enlarged field for engagement demands that design incorporates a more nuanced and complex reading of how the social is intertwined with the material, which confronts the often reductive or simplistic notion of social design, and offers novel forms of critical and meaningful engagement at a time of