The Essence of Good Design
Responsive Cohesion
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 26 August 2026
- ISBN 9781041215349
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages204 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 77 Illustrations, black & white; 74 Halftones, black & white; 3 Line drawings, black & white 700
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Short description:
Written by a designer and two philosophers, this short, highly illustrated book explores the idea that responsive cohesion is the essence of good design.
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Written by a designer and two philosophers, this short, highly illustrated book explores the idea that responsive cohesion is the essence of good design.
Responsive cohesion refers to a state in which things ‘hold together’ (or cohere) due to the mutual responsiveness of the features that constitute them. This contrasts with fixed cohesion (in which things hold – or are held – together in a more forced, constrained, or non-mutually responsive way) and discohesion (in which things don’t hold together well or at all). The authors argue that responsive cohesion is the best form of organisation in general and, thus, the best guide to creating those deliberate forms of organisation we refer to as ‘design’. Moreover, this claim applies not only to individual examples of design but also, and importantly, to how these items fit with their wider human-constructed, human social, and ecological contexts.
The book shows how these ideas illuminate and can be applied to a wide range of design areas, ranging from gardens and domestic objects to architecture, urban design and cultural landscapes. Both accessible and rigorous, this book is essential reading for designers and a compelling introduction for those interested in design.
"This is a book that designers will actually want to read. It doesn’t try to be flashy or overly clever. It’s clear, thoughtful, and useful."
Jonathan Chapman, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design
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1. An Orientation to Design 2. The Idea of Responsive Cohesion 3. The Importance of Contexts 4. Garden Design and Responsive Cohesion 5. Domestic Objects and Responsive Cohesion 6. Architecture and Responsive Cohesion 7. Urban Design and Responsive Cohesion 8. Cultural Landscapes and Responsive Cohesion 9. What Have We Learnt? 10. How to: Implementing Responsively Cohesive Design
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