When Words Fail - On Practice-Based Art, Design and Education

This volume explores how art and design create knowledge in a world where traditional language has reached its limits. Through the works and writings of more than one hundred artists, designers, and thinkers, it examines how images, gestures, and forms can reveal what words struggle to name. As the boundaries between disciplines dissolve, these contributors test new tools for understanding experience, confronting uncertainty, and challenging dominant narratives. Their practices show that visual work does more than represent reality. It can reshape it, offering critical, situated, and transformative ways of knowing in the blur of the contemporary moment.