The Routledge companion to design studies

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Sparke, Penny
• Fisher, Fiona

Publisher

London; New York: Routledge, 2019

Language

English

ISBN

9780367201685

Series

Subject(s)

• DESIGN.

Notes

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Abstract

Since the 1990s, in response to dramatic transformations in the worlds of technology and the economy, design – a once relatively definable discipline, complete with a set of subdisciplines – has become unrecognizable. Consequently, design scholars have begun to address new issues, themes and sub-disciplines such as: sustainable design, design for well-being, empathic design, design activism, design anthropology, and many more.

The Routledge Companion to Design Studies charts this new expanded spectrum and embraces the wide range of scholarship relating to design – theoretical, practice-related and historical – that has emerged over the past four decades. Comprising forty-three newly commissioned chapters, the Companion is organized into the following six sections:

- Defining design: discipline, process
- Defining design: objects, spaces
- Designing identities: gender, sexuality, age, nation
- Designing society: empathy, responsibility, consumption, the everyday
- Design and politics: activism, intervention, regulation
- Designing the world: globalization, transnationalism, translation.

Contributors include both established and emerging scholars and the chapters offer an international scope, covering work emanating from, and relating to, design in the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, North America, Asia, Australasia and Africa.

This comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of Design Studies.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

xxi, 552 p.

Dimension

25 cm.

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Defining Design: Discipline, Process --
Defining Design: Objects, Spaces --
Designing Identities: Gender, Sexuality, Age, Nation --
Designing Society: Empathy, Responsibility, Consumption, the Everyday --
Design and Politics: Activism, Intervention, Regulation --
Designing the World: Globalization, Transnationalism, Translation.

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