Design by Use : The Everyday Metamorphosis of Things

ISBN-13: 9783764388676 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 192 str.

Uta Brandes; Sonja Stich; Miriam Wender

Opis

This publication explores a very special kind of design-the phenomenon, as normal as it is wonderful, in which people with no formal training in design take things that have already been designed and reuse them, convert them to new uses.

Spis treści

Fluid Design and Research

A View to other Disciplines

Related Strategies

Intentional Re-Design

Non-Intentional Design - Empirically

The Subjects: Objects and Strategies of Usage Re-Definition

The Objects

The Process of Discovery

Non-Intentional Design in Public Spaces

Design between Subject and Object

Design as Applied Philosophy

Learning Processes and Transformation

Bibliography

O autorze

Uta Brandes ist Professorin für Design-Forschung und für Gender und Design an der Köln International School of Design (KISD)