Deep, beautiful, and a little quirky." Thomas Girard, The Ormsby Review
Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: Design Chapter 2 Prologue: Photobox, Long-Living Chair, and Olly Chapter 2: Nomadic Practices Chapter 3 Prologue: Fairphone, Pocket Receivers, and Kar-a-Sutra Chapter 3: Designing Artifacts, Objects, and Products Part II: Things Chapter 4 Prologue: Phototrope, +Lichtlijn, New Faces, New Identities, Prayer Companion, and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Chapter 4: Things Are Interconnected and Transformative Chapter 5 Prologue: Tilting Bowl, Being the Machine, Obscura 1C Digital Camera, Morse Things, Burgundian Black Collaboratory, and Mineral Accretion Factory: Underwater Table Chapter 5: Things are Relational and Vital Part III: Designer Chapter 6 Prologue: Living in a Prototype, Greenscreen Dress, Supersurface, and Children Village Chapter 6: The Designer as Biography Chapter 7 Prologue: Anti-biographies and Lifepatch Chapter 7: The Constituency of the Designer Conclusion Chapter 8: Designing-with Notes References Index
Ron Wakkary is Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology and founder of the Everyday Design Studio at Simon Fraser University and Professor and Chair of Design for More Than Human-Centred Worlds in Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology.