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The Design Culture Reader brings together a rich and diverse selection of texts for the purpose of re-imagining the study of design for the 21st Century.

What are the qualities and properties that make something cultural? What does claiming something as cultural allow us to do?"

Culture "offers students a workable understanding of the category culture and explores how the realm of the cultural can be practically explored as a way of understanding the world.

Ben Highmore provides a clear and robust defence of the productivity of cultural analysis in a media saturated world, while also instilling a sense of modesty in qualifying what can and can t be accomplished in the name of cultural analysis.

With extensive examples and case...

This new study from Ben Highmore looks at the seemingly banal world of objects, work, daily media, and food, and finds there a scintillating array of passionate experience. Through a series of case studies, and building on his previous work on the everyday, Highmore examines our relationship to familiar objects (a favourite chair), repetitive work (housework, typing), media (distracted television viewing and radio listening) and food (specifically the food of multicultural Britain). A chair allows him to consider the history of flat-pack furniture as well as the lively presence of...

What are the qualities and properties that make something cultural? What does claiming something as cultural allow us to do?"

Culture "offers students a workable understanding of the category culture and explores how the realm of the cultural can be practically explored as a way of understanding the world.

Ben Highmore provides a clear and robust defence of the productivity of cultural analysis in a media saturated world, while also instilling a sense of modesty in qualifying what can and can t be accomplished in the name of cultural analysis.

With extensive examples and case...

Coinciding with the massive growth of consumerism after the Second World War, 'everyday life' has emerged as a crucial site of scholarly exploration. The critical study of quotidian routines, rules, spaces, and objects has become a central concern for scholars working in cultural studies. Furthermore, everyday life has also engaged the close attention of thinkers--including philosophers, cultural geographers, historians, and sociologists--from a range of other disciplines across the humanities and social sciences.

As research in and around everyday life flourishes as never...