Design Anthropology: Object Culture in the 21st Century - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 3709102332 ISBN 13: 9783709102336

Casa editrice: Springer Vienna Architecture, 2010

Riassunto

The essential reading for visionary designers and material culturists

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Informazioni sull'autore

Alison J. Clarke is professor and chair of Design History and Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna and research director of the Victor J. Papanek Foundation promoting socially aware design. Formerly a senior academic at the Royal College of Art, London, Clarke has a MA with Distinction in Design History (RCA/V&A), and a PhD in Social Anthropology from University College London. She is a former Smithsonian Fellow of History and author of Tupperware: the Promise of Plastic in 1950s America (Smithsonian Press), optioned for the making of an Emmy-nominated USA documentary. She is a regular contributor to media (most recently the ground-breaking The Genius of Design, BBC TV), and has authored numerous articles on the ethnography of everyday design.

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What makes a product iconic? How did IKEA really conquer the home-furnishings market from Sweden to China? Why do design innovators spend more time observing consumers than making new things? Design Anthropology charts the radical turn to the user that has transformed our contemporary object culture. Featuring leading design thinkers, Design Anthropology offers a provocative insight into how different groups, from South London urbanites to Australian aborigines, use designed objects to make sense of their everyday lives. As design corporations go native they now look to us our homes, our spiritual worlds and our intimate rituals, for their inspiration. Design Anthropology is a must-have read for everyone in design, creative industries, sociology, anthropology, marketing and cultural studies and for anyone interested in what is really at stake in our material world. "These timely, thoughtful and well-written essays are essential reading as we explore the changing tasks of design in these new times" John Thackara, Doors of Perception "Alison Clarke's anthology is a must-read for anyone interested in the growing links between design and anthropology. Featuring essays by leading writers working at the intersection of both fields, it is a well-constructed foray into a world where material culture meets design research, where practice and theory intertwine. As designers add social science theory to their box of tricks and theorists seek relevance and impact for their ideas, Design Anthropology is where it all comes together." Jeremy Myerson, Director and Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design, Royal College of Art

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer Vienna Architecture
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3709102332
• ISBN 13: 9783709102336
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 255
• Redattore: Clarke Alison J.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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