Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability Food & Drinks Moving between Accra and London

Moving between Accra and London throughout his life

Alessio Avventuroso

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Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability Food & Drinks Moving between Accra and LondonMoving 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