Encountering things : design and theories of things / edited by Leslie Atzmon and Prasad Boradkar.

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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...

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Other Authors: Atzmon, Leslie, 1954- (Editor), Boradkar, Prasad (Editor)
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Subjects:
Design > Philosophy.
Design > Social aspects.
Consumer goods > Social aspects.
Consumer goods > Psychological aspects.
Visual communication.
Physical Description:xv, 218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Design and theories of things
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Filled with wonder : the enchanting android from cams to algorithms / Betti Marenko
  • When objects fail : unconcealing things in design writing and criticism / Peter Hall
  • The practically living weight of convenient things / Cameron Tonkinwise
  • Big things : the vibrant culture of boomboxes / Prasad Boradkar and Lyle Owerko
  • Theorizing the hari kuyō : the ritual disposal of needles in early modern Japan / Christine M. E. Guth
  • Nothingness in April Greiman's Does it make sense? / Elizabeth Guffey
  • Making thing, things / Nina Rappaport
  • Distributing stresses : the development and use of the Eames Dining Chair Metal (DCM) / Michael J. Golec
  • What design tells us about objects and things / Giorgio De Michelis
  • The modern American telephone as a contested technological thing, 1920-1939 / Jan Hadlaw
  • Memory, materiality, and the Montreal Signs Project / Matt Soar
  • Connecting things : broadening design to include systems, platforms, and product-service ecologies / Hugh Dubberly
  • Designing things as "poor" substitutes / Carl Knappett
  • The graphic thing : ambiguity, dysfunction, and excess in designed objects / Phil Jones
  • Agency and counteragency of materials : a story of copper / Prasad Boradkar
  • Afterword : Encountering design / Bill Brown.