Shipping Container

ISBN-13: 9781501303142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 160 str.

UK) Martin Dr. Craig (University of Edinburgh

Opis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight.... 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and where is it going? Craig Martin's book illuminates the "development of containerization"-including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.

Recenzje

Craig Martin has brought real love and insight to the logistical life of the shipping container. He reveals its role in the distributive space of extensive global networks and other dark places and their knotty politics, without ever losing track of our personal attachment and alienation to this box of ubiquity, this vessel of choreographed capitalism. Shipping Container is an efficient little package, calculating, brisk, economical, and yet, it is anything but a standardized account; it just sings. Peter Adey, Professor of Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Packaging Stuff2. 20 x 40 x 8 feet: Design and Development of a Global Object3. Twist Lock: Global Object of Capitalism4. Breaking the Seal: Illicit Lives of the Container5. Four Walls: Container Afterlives:6. Conclusion: Global Object to ComeIndex

O autorze

Craig Martin is Reader in Design Studies in the School of Design at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he teaches on the postgraduate Design for Change programme. He is the author of Deviant Design (Bloomsbury, 2022), Shipping Container (Bloomsbury, 2016) and co-editor, with J. Rugg, of Spatialities (2011).