Design History has become a complex and wide-ranging discipline. It now examines artifacts from conception to development, production, mediation, and consumption. Over the last few decades, the discipline has developed a diverse range of theories and methodologies for the analysis of objects. Design History presents the most comprehensive overview and guide to these developments.
The book first traces the development of the discipline, explaining how it draws from Art History, Industrial Design, Cultural History and Material Culture Studies. The core of the book then analyses...
Design History has become a complex and wide-ranging discipline. It now examines artifacts from conception to development, production, mediation, a...
Design and designers hold an ambiguous place in contemporary environmental discourse. They are alternatively being blamed for causing environmental problems, and hailed as possessing some of the competences that could help solving those problems. Despite this long-standing centrality of design to environmental discourse, and vice versa, these interrelations remain underexplored in design historical scholarship. Designs on Nature will address this lacuna, providing pioneering scholarship on the ever more pressing issue of the crucial, but complex role of design in creating a more sustainable...
Design and designers hold an ambiguous place in contemporary environmental discourse. They are alternatively being blamed for causing environmental pr...
Design and designers hold an ambiguous place in contemporary environmental discourse. They are alternatively being blamed for causing environmental problems, and hailed as possessing some of the competences that could help solving those problems. Despite this long-standing centrality of design to environmental discourse, and vice versa, these interrelations remain underexplored in design historical scholarship. Designs on Nature will address this lacuna, providing pioneering scholarship on the ever more pressing issue of the crucial, but complex role of design in creating a more sustainable...
Design and designers hold an ambiguous place in contemporary environmental discourse. They are alternatively being blamed for causing environmental pr...
