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"Designs for Different Futures" records the concrete ideas and abstract dreams of designers, artists, academics, and scientists exploring how design might reframe our futures, socially, ethically, and aesthetically. Encompassing nearly 100 contemporary examples—from wearable objects to urban infrastructure—this handbook interrogates attitudes toward technology,(...)
Industrial Design
December 2019
Designs for different futures
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"Designs for Different Futures" records the concrete ideas and abstract dreams of designers, artists, academics, and scientists exploring how design might reframe our futures, socially, ethically, and aesthetically. Encompassing nearly 100 contemporary examples—from wearable objects to urban infrastructure—this handbook interrogates attitudes toward technology, consumption, beauty, and social and environmental challenges.
Industrial Design
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This is David Byrne’s celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth century forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music.
David Byrne : How music works
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This is David Byrne’s celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth century forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music.
Acoustics
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In the history of medecine, hospital are usually seen as passive reflections of advances in medical knowledge and technology. In Medicine by Design, Annmarie Adams challenges these assumptions, examining how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrating the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of archtiecture.
February 2008, Minneapolis
Medicine by Design: The architect and the modern hospital, 1893-1943
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In the history of medecine, hospital are usually seen as passive reflections of advances in medical knowledge and technology. In Medicine by Design, Annmarie Adams challenges these assumptions, examining how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrating the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of archtiecture.
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Every year, ETH Zurich publishes the best work in architectural design, technology, and visual design by students, teachers, and researchers in the university’s Department of Architecture. All the work gathered in the 2016 yearbook was produced during the previous school year, some of it through exchange programs with other universities in Europe.
Yearbook 2016: teaching and research
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Every year, ETH Zurich publishes the best work in architectural design, technology, and visual design by students, teachers, and researchers in the university’s Department of Architecture. All the work gathered in the 2016 yearbook was produced during the previous school year, some of it through exchange programs with other universities in Europe.
Contemporary Architecture
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This book combines Robert W. Gill’s two classic volumes – "Basic perspective" and "Creative perspective" – to provide a complete, clear and simple explanation of the principles of perspective. It demonstrates that an understanding of them – even in our technology-led world – is the key for architects and designers who want to produce great work.
April 2006, New York
Perspective : from basic to creative
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This book combines Robert W. Gill’s two classic volumes – "Basic perspective" and "Creative perspective" – to provide a complete, clear and simple explanation of the principles of perspective. It demonstrates that an understanding of them – even in our technology-led world – is the key for architects and designers who want to produce great work.
Where stuff comes from
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How toasters, toilets, cars, computers, and many other things come to be as they are. From the designer to the manufacturer to the business owner to the consumer, Molotch guides us through the worlds of technology, design, corporate culture and popular culture, giving us a sense of how and why we want stuff.
Where stuff comes from
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How toasters, toilets, cars, computers, and many other things come to be as they are. From the designer to the manufacturer to the business owner to the consumer, Molotch guides us through the worlds of technology, design, corporate culture and popular culture, giving us a sense of how and why we want stuff.
Design Theory
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This publication unearths cases in which cities push homeless people out of public spaces through a combination of policy and strategic design. Robert Rosenberger brings together ideas from the philosophy of technology, social theory, and feminist epistemology to spotlight the widespread anti-homeless ideology built into our communities and enacted in law.
Callous objects: Designs against the homeless
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This publication unearths cases in which cities push homeless people out of public spaces through a combination of policy and strategic design. Robert Rosenberger brings together ideas from the philosophy of technology, social theory, and feminist epistemology to spotlight the widespread anti-homeless ideology built into our communities and enacted in law.
Social
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As Vanderbilt shows, driving is a provocatively revealing prism for examining how our minds work and the ways in which we interact with one another. Tom Vanderbilt writes about design, technology, science, and culture, for "Wired", "Slate", "Artforum", and "The New York Times", and was a research fellow at the CCA in fall 2008.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
August 2008, New York
Traffic: why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us)
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As Vanderbilt shows, driving is a provocatively revealing prism for examining how our minds work and the ways in which we interact with one another. Tom Vanderbilt writes about design, technology, science, and culture, for "Wired", "Slate", "Artforum", and "The New York Times", and was a research fellow at the CCA in fall 2008.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
Digital cultures
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Writing accessibly about the underlying technology, Doueihi explores the multidimensional question of what it means to participate in online culture—from literacy and citizenship to texts, archiving, and storage. By bringing together topics explored separately elsewhere—such as copyright, digital subjectivity, and social networks—Digital Cultures offers a comprehensive(...)
Digital cultures
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Writing accessibly about the underlying technology, Doueihi explores the multidimensional question of what it means to participate in online culture—from literacy and citizenship to texts, archiving, and storage. By bringing together topics explored separately elsewhere—such as copyright, digital subjectivity, and social networks—Digital Cultures offers a comprehensive view of the emerging digital space.
Archive, library and the digital
Urban constellations
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Cities are an unprecedented focus of attention : over half the world now lives in them, culture and politics are significantly shaped by them, and they are also focal points for new relationships between nature, technology and human bogy. This essay collection brings together a range of international scholarship on cities, urbanization and urban culture.
Urban constellations
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Cities are an unprecedented focus of attention : over half the world now lives in them, culture and politics are significantly shaped by them, and they are also focal points for new relationships between nature, technology and human bogy. This essay collection brings together a range of international scholarship on cities, urbanization and urban culture.
Urban Theory