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Design Noir - The Secret Life Of Electronic Objects

by Anthony Dunne e Fiona Raby

~~38,16€~~ 30,53€ 20% OFF

 The first book to be published on the work of their partnership (in 2001), <i>Design Noir</i> is the essential primary source for understanding the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings for Dunne & Raby''s work. <br/> <br/>Consisting of three elements - a ''manifesto'' on the possibilities of designing with and for the ''secret life'' of electronic objects; notes for an embryonic network of critical designers and, most famously, the presentation of the Placebo Project - a prototype for a critical design poetics enacted around electronic furniture-objects - <i>Design Noir</i> offers an in-depth exploration of one of the most seminal design projects of the last two decades, one that arguably initiated speculating through design in its contemporary forms. <br/> <br/>By detailing the logic and character of the objects that were constructed; the involvement of users with these objects over-time, and in the creation of a new kinds of spatially and temporally distributed moments of critique and engagement with things, <i>Design Noir</i> presents the case-study of the Placebo project<i></i>as a far more complex and subtler project than is often thought. <i></i><br/> <br/>As a bold and in many ways unprecedented experiment in design writing and book designing, <i>Design Noir </i>is itself an instance of the speculative propositional design it expounds.
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Architecture And The Public World - Kenneth Frampton

by Kenneth Frampton

~~30,99€~~ 24,79€ 20% OFF

 This book brings together Kenneth Frampton''s essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historical-theoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm, cultural identity, urban landscape and environment, and the political question of the "predicament" of architecture in the new Millennium. <br/>The essays explore Frampton''s contention that architecture''s imperative is to assume a significant responsibility for the edification and stewardship of the Arendtian ''public world.'' One of the most theoretically sophisticated and politically committed architectural thinkers, Frampton''s work breaks emphatically with the limits and norms of much contemporary practice and restores a sense of richness and social consequence of architecture''s ''unfinished project,'' while offering abiding lessons not only for architecture but for social, cultural, and design criticism alike.
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Architecture And The Public World - Kenneth Frampton

by Kenneth Frampton

~~30,99€~~ 24,79€ 20% OFF

 This book brings together Kenneth Frampton''s essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historical-theoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm, cultural identity, urban landscape and environment, and the political question of the "predicament" of architecture in the new Millennium. <br/>The essays explore Frampton''s contention that architecture''s imperative is to assume a significant responsibility for the edification and stewardship of the Arendtian ''public world.'' One of the most theoretically sophisticated and politically committed architectural thinkers, Frampton''s work breaks emphatically with the limits and norms of much contemporary practice and restores a sense of richness and social consequence of architecture''s ''unfinished project,'' while offering abiding lessons not only for architecture but for social, cultural, and design criticism alike.
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The Disobedience Of Design - Gui Bonsiepe

by Gui (Independent Designer And Consultant, Brazil) Bonsiepe

~~35,14€~~ 28,11€ 20% OFF

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 Provides for the first time in English a curated selection of the writings of the design thinker Gui Bonsiepe, representing his writings on the Ulm design school, on the relations of â€œcoreâ€ and â€œperipheryâ€ and design as a tool for social and political change.
Disobedience Of Design - Gui Bonsiepe

by Gui Bonsiepe

~~30,99€~~ 24,79€ 20% OFF

 Provides for the first time in English a curated selection of the writings of the design thinker Gui Bonsiepe, representing his writings on the Ulm design school, on the relations of â€œcoreâ€ and â€œperipheryâ€ and design as a tool for social and political change.
Disobedience Of Design - Gui Bonsiepe

by Gui Bonsiepe

~~30,99€~~ 24,79€ 20% OFF

 Provides for the first time in English a curated selection of the writings of the design thinker Gui Bonsiepe, representing his writings on the Ulm design school, on the relations of â€œcoreâ€ and â€œperipheryâ€ and design as a tool for social and political change.
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The Disobedience Of Design - Gui Bonsiepe

by Gui (Independent Designer And Consultant, Brazil) Bonsiepe

~~114,91€~~ 91,93€ 20% OFF

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 Provides for the first time in English a curated selection of the writings of the design thinker Gui Bonsiepe, representing his writings on the Ulm design school, on the relations of â€œcoreâ€ and â€œperipheryâ€ and design as a tool for social and political change.
ENGLISH

Design Noir - The Secret Life Of Electronic Objects

by Anthony Dunne e Fiona Raby

~~38,16€~~ 30,53€ 20% OFF

 The first book to be published on the work of their partnership (in 2001), <i>Design Noir</i> is the essential primary source for understanding the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings for Dunne & Raby''s work. <br/> <br/>Consisting of three elements - a ''manifesto'' on the possibilities of designing with and for the ''secret life'' of electronic objects; notes for an embryonic network of critical designers and, most famously, the presentation of the Placebo Project - a prototype for a critical design poetics enacted around electronic furniture-objects - <i>Design Noir</i> offers an in-depth exploration of one of the most seminal design projects of the last two decades, one that arguably initiated speculating through design in its contemporary forms. <br/> <br/>By detailing the logic and character of the objects that were constructed; the involvement of users with these objects over-time, and in the creation of a new kinds of spatially and temporally distributed moments of critique and engagement with things, <i>Design Noir</i> presents the case-study of the Placebo project<i></i>as a far more complex and subtler project than is often thought. <i></i><br/> <br/>As a bold and in many ways unprecedented experiment in design writing and book designing, <i>Design Noir </i>is itself an instance of the speculative propositional design it expounds.
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Designing Designing

by John Chris Jones

~~28,61€~~ 22,89€ 20% OFF

 <i>designing designing</i> is one of the most extraordinary books on design ever written. First published in 1984 and reprinted with this title and cover in 1991, the book was the product of ten years of auto-critique, reflection and experimentation on writing on designing. <br/><br/>Offering a savage auto-critique of his own work on "methods", as well as of the wider methods and ends of advanced industrial societies as a whole, this book challenges the traditional product- and progress- orientated focus on design by insisting that the world now coming into being requires designing to be understood as ''a response to the whole of life.'' <br/><br/>But <i>designing designin</i>g is also unique in modern design thinking in its exploration of what writing on designing might be. Combining essays, interviews, reflections, performances, plays, poems, chance procedures, photographs, collages and quotes, Jones experiments with both form and content in an attempt to make a book which ''is not simply about designing but is instead itself an instance of the ideas and processes explored within it.''
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Designing Designing

by John Chris Jones

~~28,61€~~ 22,89€ 20% OFF

 <i>designing designing</i> is one of the most extraordinary books on design ever written. First published in 1984 and reprinted with this title and cover in 1991, the book was the product of ten years of auto-critique, reflection and experimentation on writing on designing. <br/><br/>Offering a savage auto-critique of his own work on "methods", as well as of the wider methods and ends of advanced industrial societies as a whole, this book challenges the traditional product- and progress- orientated focus on design by insisting that the world now coming into being requires designing to be understood as ''a response to the whole of life.'' <br/><br/>But <i>designing designin</i>g is also unique in modern design thinking in its exploration of what writing on designing might be. Combining essays, interviews, reflections, performances, plays, poems, chance procedures, photographs, collages and quotes, Jones experiments with both form and content in an attempt to make a book which ''is not simply about designing but is instead itself an instance of the ideas and processes explored within it.''
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Defuturing - A New Design Philosophy

by Tony Fry

~~30,99€~~ 24,79€ 20% OFF

 "Once one understands the nature and magnitude of defuturing as the negation of world futures, how one has to account for the history and making of the material world - including design - dramatically changes. Defuturing as our condition forces the generation of a new philosophy of design." <br/><br/>With these thoughts this book presents a radically new understanding of the history, context and futures of designing. <br/> <br/>First published in 1999, now reissued with a new preface by the author, <i>Defuturing: A New Design Philosophy </i>is a prescient and powerful account of what it means to comprehend that we live in world that is taking away futures for ourselves and non-human others. Arguing that designing is doubly implicated in this process, first in its roles in helping to create the unsustainable, but second, re-thought through the lens of defuturing, as a mode of acting in the world that can help contest the negation of the world, <i>Defuturing </i>transforms our comprehension of designing and of how futures can be constituted. <br/> <br/>Working not through abstract theorizing but through the analysis of concrete examples, the book uses historical material on design to expose the archaeology of defuturing. Shattering the illusion that the future simply "is", <i>Defuturing </i>confronts designing with the challenge of remaking while offering the elements of a new practical reasoning of design acting.
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Wild Things - The Material Culture Of Everyday Life

by Judy Attfield

~~29,80€~~ 23,84€ 20% OFF

 What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for ''the real thing'' become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us?<br/> <br/>This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object relations. The act of consumption is only the starting point of object''s "lives". Thereafter they are transformed and invested with new meanings and associations that reflect and assert who we are. Defining designed things as "things with attitude" differentiates the highly visible fashionable object from ordinary aretefacts that are too easily taken for granted. <br/> <br/>Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to ''clutter'', the author traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity. Beyond this, she shows the materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body and suggests a transition with the passing of time from embodiment to disembodiment. <b></b>
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Architecture And The Public World - Kenneth Frampton

by Kenneth (Columbia University, Usa) Frampton

~~108,15€~~ 86,52€ 20% OFF

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Architecture And The Public World - Kenneth Frampton

by Kenneth (Columbia University, Usa) Frampton

~~33,79€~~ 27,03€ 20% OFF

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Wild Things - The Material Culture Of Everyday Life

by Judy (Formally Of Winchester School Of Art, Uk) Attfield

~~33,79€~~ 27,03€ 20% OFF

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Designing Designing

by John Chris (Formerly Of The Design Research Society, Uk) Jones

~~32,43€~~ 25,94€ 20% OFF

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Defuturing - A New Design Philosophy

by Tony (University Of Tasmania, Australia) Fry

~~35,14€~~ 28,11€ 20% OFF

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Design Noir - The Secret Life Of Electronic Objects

by Anthony (Dunne & Raby, Uk) Dunne e Fiona (Dunne & Raby, Uk) Raby

~~43,26€~~ 34,61€ 20% OFF

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On Designing The Human Environment - Tomas Maldonado

by Tomás Maldonado

~~121,67€~~ 97,34€ 20% OFF

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The Relevance Of Hegel'S Concept Of Philosophy - From Classical German Philosophy To Contemporary Metaphilosophy

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Women Philosophers Volume Ii - Entering Academia In Nineteenth-Century America

by Dorothy G. (Montclair State University, Usa) Rogers

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A New Urban Aesthetic - Experiencing Urban Change Digitally

by Gillian (The University Of Oxford, Uk) Rose

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