Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability service design conducted in New York in

conducted in New York in 1969

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These micro-interventions highlight the innovations that make this work as relevant today as when originally published

Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability service design conducted in New York inMoving 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