Encountering thing : design and theories of things Second edition.

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Atzmon, Leslie
• Boradkar, Prasad

Publisher

London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018

Language

English

ISBN

9781474293839

Series

Subject(s)

• CONSUMER GOODS--PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS
• CONSUMER GOODS--SOCIAL ASPECTS
• VISUAL COMMUNICATION

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references and index

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Abstract

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. 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. Theoretical discussion is encouraged by in-depth case studies of things themselves. Each chapter includes an informational sidebar per essay and a useful glossary of key terms.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xvi, 213 p., plates) :

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill. (some col.)

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Front matter
Introduction: Design and theories of things 1–18
1. Filled with wonder: The enchanting android from cams to algorithms 19–34
2. When objects fail: Unconcealing things in design writing and criticism 35–46
3. The practically living weight of convenient things 47–58
4. Big things: The vibrant culture of boomboxes 59–64
5. Theorizing the hari kuyō: The ritual disposal of needles in early modern Japan 65–80
6. Nothingness in April Greiman’s Does It Make Sense? 81–94
7. Making things, things 95–108
8. Distributing stresses: The development and use of the Eames Dining Chair Metal (DCM) 109–122
9. What design tells us about objects and things 123–132
10. The modern American telephone as a contested technological thing, 1920–39 133–148
11. Memory, materiality, and the Montreal Signs Project 149–152
12. Connecting things: Broadening design to include systems, platforms, and product-service ecologies 153–166
13. Designing things as “poor” substitutes 167–178
14. The graphic thing: Ambiguity, dysfunction, and excess in designed objects 179–190
15. Agency and counteragency of materials: A story of copper 191–202
Afterword: Encountering design 203–213

Exemplar(s)

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1.	00275/20	745.401 Enc	Online !	Available