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Product Design, Technology, and Social Change : A Short Cultural History / Laura S. Scherling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scherling, Laura S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Product design.
- Product design--Technological innovations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (183 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, England : Intellect, [2024]
- Summary:
- Examines the relationship between products, consumption, sustainability, politics and social movements. This 'pocket history' surveys product design from the agricultural revolution and the birth of cities, through industrialisation, and a digital design revolution. 58 b&w illus.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Product Design, Technology, and Social Change
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Foreword
- PART 1: PRODUCT DESIGN IN SOCIETY: AN INTRODUCTION
- 1. Product Design and Its Impact
- Understanding Product Types
- 2. Production and Consumption in Design
- Changing Patterns in Mass Production, Consumption, and Affordability
- Design, Manufacturing, and the Supply Chain
- PART 2: PRODUCT DESIGN AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
- 3. Product Design and Environmental Sustainability
- Design and Pollution
- Environmentally Responsible Product Design
- 4. Product Design and Labour
- Labour in Design
- Supply Chain Workers
- 5. Design, Politics, and Social Movements
- Products and Political Conflict
- Product Design for Social Movements
- PART 3: PRE- INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS
- 6. Surveying Design History from Prehistoric Times
- From Human Prehistory to the Agricultural Revolution
- Early Innovations and Global Trade
- 7. Pre-industrial Design Processes and Craft Guilds
- Pre-industrial Products and Commerce Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9781835950258
- 1835950256
- 9781835950241
- 1835950248
- OCLC:
- 1463087338
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