Encountering things: Design and theories of things
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2017
Department/School
Art and Design
Abstract
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.
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Recommended Citation
Atzmon, L., & Boradkar, P. (Eds.). (2017). Encountering things: Design and theories of things. Bloomsbury Academic.
Comments
L. Atzmon is a faculty member in EMU's School of Art and Design.