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.
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Encountering Things
Design and Theories of Things
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eBook - ePub
Encountering Things
Design and Theories of Things
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Table of contents
- Title
- Contentsâ
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Introduction: Design and theories of thingsâLeslie Atzmon and Prasad Boradkar
- 1âFilled with wonder: The enchanting android from cams to algorithmsâBetti Marenko
- 2âWhen objects fail: Unconcealing things in design writing and criticismâPeter Hall
- 3âThe practically living weight of convenient thingsâCameron Tonkinwise
- 4âBig things: The vibrant culture of boomboxesâPrasad Boradkar and Lyle Owerko
- 5âTheorizing the hari kuyĹ: The ritual disposal of needles in early modern JapanâChristine M. E. Guth
- 6âNothingness in April Greimanâs Does It Make Sense?âElizabeth Guffey
- 7âMaking things, thingsâNina Rappaport
- 8âDistributing stresses: The development and use of the Eames Dining Chair Metal (DCM)âMichael J. Golec
- 9âWhat design tells us about objects and thingsâGiorgio De Michelis
- 10âThe modern American telephone as a contested technological thing, 1920â39âJan Hadlaw
- 11âMemory, materiality, and the Montreal Signs ProjectâMatt Soar
- 12âConnecting things: Broadening design to include systems, platforms, and product-service ecologiesâHugh Dubberly
- 13âDesigning things as âpoorâ substitutesâCarl Knappett
- 14âThe graphic thing: Ambiguity, dysfunction, and excess in designed objectsâPhil Jones
- 15âAgency and counteragency of materials: A story of copperâPrasad Boradkar
- Afterword: Encountering designâBill Brown
- Index
- Plates
- Copyright
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