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Design Strategy - Challenges In Wicked Problem Territory

by Nancy C. Roberts

~~145,75€~~ 131,18€ 10% OFF

 A new approach to addressing the contemporary world''s most difficult challenges, such as climate change and poverty.Conflicts over "the problem" and "the solution" plague the modern world and land problem solvers in what has been called "wicked problem territory"—a social space with high levels of conflict over problems and solutions. In Design Strategy, Nancy C. Roberts proposes design as a strategy of problem solving to close the gap between an existing state and a desired state. Utilizing this approach, designers and change agents are better able to minimize self-defeating conflicts over problems and solutions, break the logjam of opposition, and avoid the traps that lock problem solvers into a never-ending cycle of conflict. Design as a field continues to grow and evolve, but Design Strategy focuses on three levels of design where wicked problems tend to lurk—strategic design (of private and public organizations), systemic design (of networked and overlapping economic, technical, political, and social subsystems), and regenerative design (of life-giving realignment between humanity and nature). Within this framework, Roberts presents refreshingly interdisciplinary case studies that integrate theory and practice across diverse fields to guide professionals in any domain—from business and nonprofit organizations to educational and healthcare systems—and finally offers hope that humanity can tackle the existential challenges we face in the twenty-first century.
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Things We Could Design - For More Than Human-Centered Worlds

by Ron Wakkary

92,75€ + 10% CARD

 How posthumanist design enables a world in which humans share center stage with nonhumans, with whom we are entangled.Over the past forty years, designers have privileged human values such that human-centered design is seen as progressive. Yet because all that is not human has been depleted, made extinct, or put to human use, today''s design contributes to the existential threat of climate change and the ongoing extinctions of other species. In Things We Could Design, Ron Wakkary argues that human-centered design is not the answer to our problems but is itself part of the problem. Drawing on philosophy, design theory, and numerous design works, he shows the way to a relational and expansive design based on humility and cohabitation. Wakkary says that design can no longer ignore its exploitation of nonhuman species and the materials we mine for and reduce to human use. Posthumanism, he argues, enables a rethinking of design that displaces the human at the center of thought and action. Weaving together posthumanist philosophies with design, he describes what he calls things—nonhumans made by designers—and calls for a commitment to design with more than human participation. Wakkary also focuses on design as "nomadic practices"—a multiplicity of intentionalities and situated knowledges that shows design to be expansive and pluralistic. He calls his overall approach "designing-with": the practice of design in a world in which humans share center stage with nonhumans, and in which we are bound together materially, ethically, and existentially.
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Meaningful Stuff - Design That Lasts

by Jonathan Chapman

66,25€ + 10% CARD

 An argument for a design philosophy of better, not more.Never have we wanted, owned, and wasted so much stuff. Our consumptive path through modern life leaves a wake of social and ecological destruction—sneakers worn only once, bicycles barely even ridden, and forgotten smartphones languishing in drawers. By what perverse alchemy do our newest, coolest things so readily transform into meaningless junk? In Meaningful Stuff, Jonathan Chapman investigates why we throw away things that still work, and shows how we can design products, services, and systems that last. Obsolescence is an economically driven design decision—a plan to hasten a product''s functional or psychological undesirability. Many electronic devices, for example, are intentionally impossible to dismantle for repair or recycling, their brief use-career proceeding inexorably to a landfill. A sustainable design specialist who serves as a consultant to global businesses and governmental organizations, Chapman calls for the decoupling of economic activity from mindless material consumption and shows how to do it.Chapman shares his vision for an "experience heavy, material light" design sensibility. This vital and timely new design philosophy reveals how meaning emerges from designed encounters between people and things, explores ways to increase the quality and longevity of our relationships with objects and the systems behind them, and ultimately demonstrates why design can—and must—lead the transition to a sustainable future.
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Being And The Screen - How The Digital Changes Perception. Published In One Volume With A Short Treatise On Design

by Stéphane Vial

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 How digital technology is profoundly renewing our sense of what is real and how we perceive.Digital technologies are not just tools; they are structures of perception. They determine the way in which the world appears to us. For nearly half a century, technology has provided us with perceptions coming from an unknown world. The digital beings that emerge from our screens and our interfaces disrupt the notion of what we experience as real, thereby leading us to relearn how to perceive. In Being and the Screen, Stéphane Vial provides a philosophical analysis of technology in general, and of digital technologies in particular, that relies on the observation of experience (phenomenology) and the history of technology (epistemology). He explains that technology is no longer separate from ourselves—if it ever was. Rather, we are as much a part of the machine as the machine is part of us. Vial argues that the so-called difference between the real and the virtual does not exist and never has. We are living in a hybrid environment—which is both digital and nondigital, online and offline. With this book, Vial endows philosophical meaning to what we experience daily in our digital age.In A Short Treatise on Design, Vialoffers a concise introduction to the discipline of design—not a history book, but a book built of philosophical problems, developing a theory of the effect of design.This book is published with the support of the University of Nîmes, France.
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Pretense Design - Surface Over Substance

by Per Mollerup

87,45€ + 10% CARD

 How some design appears to be something that it is not—by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving.Pretense design pretends to be something that it is not. Pretense design includes all kinds of designed objects: a pair of glasses that looks like a fashion accessory rather than a medical necessity, a hotel in Las Vegas that simulates a Venetian ambience complete with canals and gondolas, boiler plates that look like steel but are vinyl. In this book, Danish designer Per Mollerup defines and describes a ubiquitous design category that until now has not had a name: designed objects with an intentional discrepancy between surface and substance, between appearance and reality. Pretense design, he shows us, is a type of material rhetoric; it is a way for physical objects to speak persuasively, most often to benefit users but sometimes to deceive them.After explaining the means and the meanings of pretense design, Mollerup describes four pretense design applications, providing a range of examples for each: beautification, amusement, substitution, and deception. Beautification, he explains, includes sunless tanning, high heels, and even sporty accessories for a family car. Amusement includes forms of irrational otherness—columns that don''t hold anything up, an old building''s façade that hides a new building, a new Chinese town that mimics an old European town. Substitution pretends to be a natural thing: plastic laminate is a substitute for wood, Corian a substitute for marble, and prosthetics substitute for human organs. Deception doesn''t just bend the truth; it suspends it. Soldiers wear camouflage to hide; hunters use decoys to attract their prey; malware hides in a harmless program only to wreak havoc on a user''s computer. With Pretense Design, Per Mollerup adds a new concept to design thinking.
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Designing With The Body - Somaesthetic Interaction Design

by Kristina Hook

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 Interaction design that entails a qualitative shift from a symbolic, language-oriented stance to an experiential stance that encompasses the entire design and use cycle.
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Critical Fabulations - Reworking The Methods And Margins Of Design

by Daniela K Rosner

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.
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Making Design Theory

by Johan Redstrom

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design.Tendencies toward "academization" of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms. In this book, Johan Redström offers a new approach to theory development in design research-one that is driven by practice, experimentation, and making. Redström does not theorize from the outside, but explores the idea that, just as design research engages in the making of many different kinds of things, theory might well be one of those things it is making.Redström proposes that we consider theory not as stable and constant but as something unfolding—something acted as much as articulated, inherently fluid and transitional. Redström describes three ways in which theory, in particular formulating basic definitions, is made through design: the use of combinations of fluid terms to articulate issues; the definition of more complex concepts through practice; and combining sets of definitions made through design into "programs." These are the building blocks for creating conceptual structures to support design. Design seems to thrive on the complexities arising from dichotomies: form and function, freedom and method, art and science. With his idea of transitional theory, Redström departs from the traditional academic imperative to pick a side—theory or practice, art or science. Doing so, he opens up something like a design space for theory development within design research.
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From Web To Workplace - Designing Open Hypermedia Systems - Designing Open Hypermedia Systems

by Kaj Gronbaek e Randall H. Trigg

101,76€ + 10% CARD

 Kaj Gronbak and Randall H. Trigg present a set of principles for the design of open hypermedia systems and provide concrete implications of these principles for issues ranging from data structures to architectures and system integration, and for settings as diverse as the World Wide Web and the workplace.
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Discursive Design - Critical, Speculative, And Alternative Things

by Bruce M. Tharp e Stephanie M. Tharp

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 Exploring how design can be used for good--prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive social change.
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Frame Innovation - Create New Thinking By Design

by Kees Dorst

71,55€ + 10% CARD

 How organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems.
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Linkography - Unfolding The Design Process

by Gabriela Goldschmidt

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 The description of a method for the notation and analysis of the creative process in design, drawing on insights from design practice and cognitive psychology.
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Aesthetics Of Imagination In Design

by Mads Nygaard Folkmann

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 A theoretically informed investigation that relates the philosophies of aesthetics and imagination to understanding design practice.
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Adversarial Design

by Carl Disalvo

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 An exploration of the political qualities of technology design, as seen in projects that span art, computer science, and consumer products.In Adversarial Design, Carl DiSalvo examines the ways that technology design can provoke and engage the political. He describes a practice, which he terms "adversarial design," that uses the means and forms of design to challenge beliefs, values, and what is taken to be fact. It is not simply applying design to politics—attempting to improve governance for example, by redesigning ballots and polling places; it is implicitly contestational and strives to question conventional approaches to political issues. DiSalvo explores the political qualities and potentials of design by examining a series of projects that span design and art, engineering and computer science, agitprop and consumer products. He views these projects—which include computational visualizations of networks of power and influence, therapy robots that shape sociability, and everyday objects embedded with microchips that enable users to circumvent surveillance—through the lens of agonism, a political theory that emphasizes contention as foundational to democracy. DiSalvo''s illuminating analysis aims to provide design criticism with a new approach for thinking about the relationship between forms of political expression, computation as a medium, and the processes and products of design.
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Design Things

by Giorgio De Michelis, Giulio Jacucci, Ina Wagner, Pelle Ehn, Per Linde e Thomas Binder

132,50€ + 10% CARD

 "Thomas Binder, Pelle Ehn, Giorgio De Michelis, Giulio Jacucci, Per Linde, and Ina Wagner."
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Designing Publics

by Christopher A. Le Dantec

92,75€ + 10% CARD

 An exploration of design considerations in the design of technologies that support local collective action.
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Overcrowded - Designing Meaningful Products In A World Awash With Ideas

by Roberto Verganti

92,75€ + 10% CARD

 A more powerful innovation, which seeks to discover not how things work but why we need things.
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Overcrowded - Designing Meaningful Products In A World Awash With Ideas

by Roberto (Professor Of Leadership And Innovation, Politecnico Di Milano) Verganti

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 A more powerful innovation, which seeks to discover not how things work but why we need things.
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Design, When Everybody Designs - An Introduction To Design For Social Innovation

by Ezio Manzini

71,55€ + 10% CARD

 The role of design, both expert and nonexpert, in the ongoing wave of social innovation toward sustainability.
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Taking [A]Part - The Politics And Aesthetics Of Participation In Experience-Centered Design

by John Mccarthy e Peter Wright

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 A critical inquiry into the value and experience of participation in design research.
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Situated Design Methods

132,50€ + 10% CARD

 A handbook of situated design methods, with analyses and cases that range from designing study processes to understanding customer experiences to developing interactive installations.
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Discursive Design - Critical, Speculative, And Alternative Things

by Bruce M. Tharp e Stephanie M. Tharp

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Design Things

by Giorgio De Michelis, Giulio Jacucci, Pelle Ehn, Per Linde e Thomas Binder

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Taking (A)Part - The Politics And Aesthetics Of Participation In Experience-Centered Design

by John (Head Of School, University College Cork) Mccarthy e Peter (Newcastle University) Wright

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