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    Encountering Things: Design and Theories of Things

    Encountering Things by Atzmon, Leslie; Boradkar, Prasad;

    Design and Theories of Things

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 19 October 2017
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9780857855640
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages288 pages
    • Size 244x188x12 mm
    • Weight 560 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 60 bw illus
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    Long description:

    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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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Leslie Atzmon and Prasad Boradkar

    Chapter 1
    Filled with Wonder: Enchanting Androids from Cams to Codes
    Betti Marenko

    Chapter 2
    When Objects Fail: Unconcealing Things in Design Writing and Criticism
    Peter Hall

    Chapter 3
    What design tells us about objects and things
    G. De Michelis

    Chapter 4
    Visual Essay-The Boombox Project
    Prasad Boradkar and Lyle Owerko

    Chapter 5
    Theorizing the Hari Kuyô
    Christine Guth

    Chapter 6
    Making Things Things
    Nina Rappaport

    Chapter 7
    Distributing Stresses: The Development and Use of the Eames Dining Chair Metal
    Michael J. Golec

    Chapter 8
    The Practically Living Weight of Convenient Things
    Cameron Tonkinwise

    Chapter 9
    The Modern American Telephone as a Contested Technological Thing, 1920-1939
    Jan Hadlaw

    Chapter 10
    Visual Essay-Montreal Signage Project
    Matt Soar

    Chapter 11
    Connecting Things: Broadening Design To Include Systems,
    Platforms, And Product-Service Ecologies
    Hugh Dubberly

    Chapter 12
    Things as "Poor" Substitutes
    Carl Knappett

    Chapter 13
    The Graphic Thing: Ambiguity, Dysfunction, and Excess in Designed Objects
    Phil Jones

    Chapter 14
    Nothingness in April Greiman's "Does It Make Sense?"
    Elizabeth Guffey

    Chapter 15
    Visual Essay-Indian Copper Objects
    Prasad Boradkar

    Afterword
    Bill Brown

    Bibliography
    Index

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