Encountering things : design and theories of things / edited by Leslie Atzmon and Prasad Boradkar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atzmon, Leslie, Editor.

Contributor:

Atzmon, Leslie, editor.

Boradkar, Prasad, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), photographs

Edition:

1

Place of Publication:

Bloomsbury Publishing 2017

Summary:

Encountering Things brings together leading design scholars to explore the relationship between thing theory and design, exploring production processes and offering an engaging, theoretical perspective about the social and cultural lives of objects. Focusing on the themes of process and product, the contributors investigate the productive interplay between the activity of design and the objects that design uses and produces. Chapters span the design disciplines and essays examine the processes by which objects, things, and artifacts are made; the lives of design objects; and things in their cultural contexts. Theoretical discussion is encouraged by in-depth case studies of things themselves. Each chapter includes an informational sidebar per essay and a useful glossary of key terms.

Contents:

List of illustrations List of contributors Introduction: Design and theories of things Leslie Atzmon and Prasad Boradkar 1 Filled with wonder: The enchanting android from cams to algorithms Betti Marenko 2 When objects fail: Unconcealing things in design writing and criticism Peter Hall 3 The practically living weight of convenient things Cameron Tonkinwise 4 Big things: The vibrant culture of boomboxes Prasad Boradkar and Lyle Owerko 5 Theorizing the hari kuyō: The ritual disposal of needles in early modern Japan Christine M. E. Guth 6 Nothingness in April Greiman's Does It Make Sense? Elizabeth Guffey 7 Making things, things Nina Rappaport 8 Distributing stresses: The development and use of the Eames Dining Chair Metal (DCM) Michael J. Golec 9 What design tells us about objects and things Giorgio De Michelis 10 The modern American telephone as a contested technological thing, 1920-39 Jan Hadlaw 11 Memory, materiality, and the Montreal Signs Project Matt Soar 12 Connecting things: Broadening design to include systems, platforms, and product-service ecologies Hugh Dubberly 13 Designing things as "poor" substitutes Carl Knappett 14 The graphic thing: Ambiguity, dysfunction, and excess in designed objects Phil Jones 15 Agency and counteragency of materials: A story of copper Prasad Boradkar Afterword: Encountering design Bill Brown Plates

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 17, 2017).

ISBN:

0-85785-601-4