Encountering Things: Design and Theories of Things
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (774 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0857855646 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Chapters span the design disciplines and essays examine the processes by which objects, things, and artifacts are made; the lives of design objects; and things in their cultural contexts. Each chapter includes an informational sidebar per essay and a useful glossary of key terms.. Theoretical discussion is encouraged by in-depth case studies of things themselves. Encountering Things brings together leading design scholars to explore the relationship between thing theory and design, exploring production processes and offering an engaging, theoretical perspective about the social and cultural lives of objects.Focusing on the themes of process and product, the contributors investigate the productive interplay between the activity of design and the objects that design uses and produces
The essays in the collection are wide-ranging, multidisciplinary and mutually enlightening. This book will be of great interest to scholars in design studies, social theory and cultural criticism. This collection of essays is the first major effort to connect the renewed interest in materiality with an earlier tradition of object studies in order to examine how these fields connect with design theory and practice. * Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, USA *
Leslie Atzmon is Professor of Graphic Design and Design History at Eastern Michigan University, USA.Prasad Boradkar is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Industrial Design Programme at Arizona State University, USA.