Author(s): Christianna Bennett
This paper introduces a new definition of horror for use in the design disciplines. Rather than deploy the tropes of horror to arouse a sense of thrill and theatrics, the new model adopts a framework of confrontation to address and validate the difficulty of realities concealed by convenient fictions. When used as a design strategy, confrontations with social and environmental horror can effectively reveal the harms masked by complicit ideologies. The techniques discussed in this paper use the storytelling devices of horror and its aesthetic repertoire to expose the layers of artifice that hide evidence of harm in our everyday lives.
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978-1-944214-49-4