Title & Author:

Diversity and design : understanding hidden consequences / edited by Beth Tauke, Korydon Smith, and Charles Davis.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2016.

Description:

xix, 305 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword : Closing the gap between the designer and the recipients of design / Sina Mossayeb -- Introduction / Beth Tauke, Korydon Smith and Charles Davis -- Part 1. Race and ethnicity : No longer just a dream: commemorating the African American experience on the National Mall / Charles Davis -- Diverse truths: unveiling the hidden layers of the Shadow Catcher commemoration / Walter Hood and Megan Basnak -- Landscape stories: unearthing the culture of agricultural communities in the Central Valley / Patsy Eubanks Owens, Maggie La Rochelle, and Jennifer L. McHenry -- Chinese puzzle: shifting spatial and social patterns in Shanghai Shikumen architecture / Peter Wong -- Architects at war: designing prison cities for Japanese-American communities / Lynne Horiuchi -- Part 2. Gender and sexuality : "Should women build?": Debating gender and architecture in Germany, 1908-1920 / Despina Stratigakos -- Communicating gender: the challenges of visualizing information for advocacy / Maya Indira Ganesh and Gabriela Sobliye -- Overwriting hate: the queer writing on the bathroom wall / Mark Addison Smith -- Designing LBGT senior housing: Triangle Square, Carefree Boulevard, and BOOM / Carl Matthews, Jennifer Webb, and Caroline Hill -- Repositioning power: an alternate approach to podium design / Kathryn H. Anthony -- Part 3. Age and ability : (Re)forming Regent Park: when policy does not equal practice / Mary Jane Carroll -- Victims and heroes: exhibiting difference in Trafalgar Square / Korydon Smith -- ExcLOOsion: how design is failing sanitary provision / Jo-Anne Bichard -- Packaging panic: the design consequences of the Tylenol murders / Beth Tauke -- iTransition: promoting healthcare independence for teens with chronic illness / Craig Vogel, Linda Dunseath, and Lori E. Crosby -- Conclusion : Prospects for the future of diversity and design / Beth Tauke, Korydon Smith and Charles Davis.

Summary:

Diversity and Design explores how design - whether of products, buildings, landscapes, cities, media, or systems - affects diverse members of society. Fifteen case studies in television, marketing, product design, architecture, film, video games, and more, illustrate the profound, though often hidden, consequences design decisions and processes have on the total human experience. The book not only investigates how gender, race, class, age, disability, and other factors influence the ways designers think, but also emphasizes the importance of understanding increasingly diverse cultures and, thus, averting design that leads to discrimination, isolation, and segregation. With over 140 full-color illustrations, chapter conclusions, discussion questions and exercises, Diversity and Design is a valuable tool to help you understand the importance of designing for all.

ISBN:

9781138023161 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1138023167 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781138023178 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1138023175 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781315775791

Subject:

Design Human factors.
Design Social aspects.
Design Facteurs humains.
Design Aspect social.
Design
Kultursoziologie
Politische Theorie
Interkulturalität

Added entries:

Tauke, Beth, editor.
Smith, Korydon H., 1977- editor.
Davis, Charles L., II, editor.
Tauke, Beth editor.
Davis, Charles L., II editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300349
Call No.: BIB 246530
Status: Available