Vers une écologie critique
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Publié en 1970 et rapidement traduit en plusieurs langues, cet ouvrage constitue un jalon majeur dans l'histoire du design. Il pose les fondements d'une réflexion critique et engagée, ouverte à une perspective écologique, face aux dérives des régressions utopiques ou du productivisme exacerbé. Tomás Maldonado, figure pionnière de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, défend, à(...)
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Publié en 1970 et rapidement traduit en plusieurs langues, cet ouvrage constitue un jalon majeur dans l'histoire du design. Il pose les fondements d'une réflexion critique et engagée, ouverte à une perspective écologique, face aux dérives des régressions utopiques ou du productivisme exacerbé. Tomás Maldonado, figure pionnière de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, défend, à l'intersection des disciplines et des cultures, l'idée que l'espoir doit imprégner la manière dont le design appréhende le monde. Ce livre en constitue le manifeste.
Théorie du design
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Dans le cadre d'une vaste réflexion sur l'habitat, abordant le design à travers ses différents usages et à partir de cas concrets, la conservatrice, urbaniste et historienne de l'art Jolanthe Kugler explore la dimension historique et sociétale des objets emblématiques de la cuisine, mettant en lumière l'évolution des représentations liées à cet espace domestique apparemment banal.
La cuisine : Entre fonctionnalité et plaisir
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Dans le cadre d'une vaste réflexion sur l'habitat, abordant le design à travers ses différents usages et à partir de cas concrets, la conservatrice, urbaniste et historienne de l'art Jolanthe Kugler explore la dimension historique et sociétale des objets emblématiques de la cuisine, mettant en lumière l'évolution des représentations liées à cet espace domestique apparemment banal.
Théorie du design
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Dans le cadre d'une vaste réflexion sur l'habitat, abordant le design à travers ses différents usages et à partir de cas concrets, la conservatrice, urbaniste et historienne de l'art Jolanthe Kugler explore la dimension historique et sociétale des objets emblématiques de la salle de bains, mettant en lumière l'évolution des représentations liées à cet espace domestique(...)
La salle de bains : De l'hygiène au bien-être
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Dans le cadre d'une vaste réflexion sur l'habitat, abordant le design à travers ses différents usages et à partir de cas concrets, la conservatrice, urbaniste et historienne de l'art Jolanthe Kugler explore la dimension historique et sociétale des objets emblématiques de la salle de bains, mettant en lumière l'évolution des représentations liées à cet espace domestique apparemment banal.
Théorie du design
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This book features more than forty innovative projects from the fields of architectural, product, furniture, fashion and graphic design. It includes essays on the tactics of formlessness and its impact on everyday consumption, the potential of an endlessly transformable environment to extend product life cycles, and ruminations on the strange and familar worlds of design.
Strangely familiar : design and everyday life
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This book features more than forty innovative projects from the fields of architectural, product, furniture, fashion and graphic design. It includes essays on the tactics of formlessness and its impact on everyday consumption, the potential of an endlessly transformable environment to extend product life cycles, and ruminations on the strange and familar worlds of design.
Théorie du design
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For Sherry Turkle, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." In "Evocative objects", Turkle collects writings by scientists, humanists, artists, and designers that trace the power of everyday things. These essays reveal objects as emotional and intellectual companions that anchor memory, sustain relationships, and provoke new ideas. This(...)
Evocative objects : things we think with
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For Sherry Turkle, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." In "Evocative objects", Turkle collects writings by scientists, humanists, artists, and designers that trace the power of everyday things. These essays reveal objects as emotional and intellectual companions that anchor memory, sustain relationships, and provoke new ideas. This volume's special contribution is its focus on everyday riches: the simplest of objects - an apple, a datebook, a laptop computer - are shown to bring philosophy down to earth. The poet contends, "No ideas but in things." The notion of evocative objects goes further : objects carry both ideas and passions. In our relations to things, thought and feeling are inseparable. Whether it's a student's beloved 1964 Ford Falcon (left behind for a station wagon and motherhood), or a cello that inspires a meditation on fatherhood, the intimate objects in this collection are used to reflect on larger themes -the role of objects in design and play, discipline and desire, history and exchange, mourning and memory, transition and passage, meditation and new vision. In the interest of enriching these connections, Turkle pairs each autobiographical essay with a text from philosophy, history, literature, or theory, creating juxtapositions at once playful and profound. So we have Howard Gardner's keyboards and Lev Vygotsky's hobbyhorses; William Mitchell's Melbourne train and Roland Barthes' pleasures of text; Joseph Cevetello's glucometer and Donna Haraway's cyborgs. Each essay is framed by images that are themselves evocative. Essays by Turkle begin and end the collection, inviting us to look more closely at the everyday objects of our lives, the familiar objects that drive our routines, hold our affections, and open out our world in unexpected ways.
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Inquiry by design
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INQUIRY BY DESIGN lays out fundamental theoretical approaches to design and research as well as practical research methods applicable to planning, programming, and evaluating physical environments. It systematically describes basic methods of research and how to apply them and shows how collaboration between designers and researchers leads to greater design creativity.
Inquiry by design
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INQUIRY BY DESIGN lays out fundamental theoretical approaches to design and research as well as practical research methods applicable to planning, programming, and evaluating physical environments. It systematically describes basic methods of research and how to apply them and shows how collaboration between designers and researchers leads to greater design creativity.
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Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that's too complicated, DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte "read me" manuals. The iPod's clean gadgetry has made simplicity hip. But sometimes we find ourselves caught up in the simplicity paradox: we want something that's simple and easy to(...)
The laws of simplicity : design, technology, business, life
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Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that's too complicated, DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte "read me" manuals. The iPod's clean gadgetry has made simplicity hip. But sometimes we find ourselves caught up in the simplicity paradox: we want something that's simple and easy to use, but also does all the complex things we might ever want it to do. In "The laws of simplicity", John Maeda offers ten laws for balancing simplicity and complexity in business, technology, and design -guidelines for needing less and actually getting more. Maeda - a professor in MIT's Media Lab and a world-renowned graphic designer - explores the question of how we can redefine the notion of "improved" so that it doesn't always mean something more, something added on. Maeda's first law of simplicity is "Reduce." It's not necessarily beneficial to add technology features just because we can. And the features that we do have must be organized (Law 2) in a sensible hierarchy so users aren't distracted by features and functions they don't need. But simplicity is not less just for the sake of less. Skip ahead to Law 9: "Failure : accept the fact that some things can never be made simple." Maeda's concise guide to simplicity in the digital age shows us how this idea can be a cornerstone of organizations and their products -how it can drive both business and technology. We can learn to simplify without sacrificing comfort and meaning, and we can achieve the balance described in Law 10. This law, which Maeda calls "The One," tells us: "Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful."
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Théorie du design
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Objects of Desire looks at the appearance of consumer goods in the 200 years since the introduction of mechanized production, whether in Josiah Wedgewood's use of neo-classicism for his industrially manufactured pottery or the development of appropriate forms for wirelesses. The argument is illustrated with examples ranging from penknives to computers and from sewing(...)
Objects of desire: design and society since 1750
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Objects of Desire looks at the appearance of consumer goods in the 200 years since the introduction of mechanized production, whether in Josiah Wedgewood's use of neo-classicism for his industrially manufactured pottery or the development of appropriate forms for wirelesses. The argument is illustrated with examples ranging from penknives to computers and from sewing machines to railway carriages. In opening up new ways of appraising the man-made world around us, Objects of Desire is required reading for anyone who has any involvement with design and a revealing document about our society. 272 black-and-white illustrations
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Hilde Bouchez: A wild thing
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Everyday objects can have an extra dimension or quality that has no relation to functionality, form, a concept or a trend. So what is it that gives a particular glass an 'aura'? Why should one thing have more shine, passion and 'mystical allure' than another? 'A Wild Thing' attempts to identify and describe these often intangible qualities. There seems to be an inner(...)
Hilde Bouchez: A wild thing
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Everyday objects can have an extra dimension or quality that has no relation to functionality, form, a concept or a trend. So what is it that gives a particular glass an 'aura'? Why should one thing have more shine, passion and 'mystical allure' than another? 'A Wild Thing' attempts to identify and describe these often intangible qualities. There seems to be an inner light that shines from certain things. Unlike the blinding spotlight of media and marketing, this light is gentle and clear and reflects the methodology and intention of the maker. Ancient craftsmen designed from a place of unity with matter and the cosmos, putting themselves at the service of the making process and thereby creating a moment of transference from maker to thing. In a series of essays, Hilde Bouchez reflects on design history and the latest movements within the design world. She also presents a phenomenological methodology that opens up a new, more poetic approach to everyday objects for both maker and consumer. The texts are linked by the author’s search for a sustainability and meaning that transcends the organic component of materials.
Théorie du design
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The thesis investigates emerging practices aimed at exploiting the World Wide Web as a space for popularizing historical knowledge. It questions the role of visual design in the communication of cultural heritage and historical information through online means, by addressing issues concerning data access, visualization, and interactive narration. A selection of(...)
Open history: designing the communication of historical knowledge through the Web
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The thesis investigates emerging practices aimed at exploiting the World Wide Web as a space for popularizing historical knowledge. It questions the role of visual design in the communication of cultural heritage and historical information through online means, by addressing issues concerning data access, visualization, and interactive narration. A selection of cuttingedge history websites, ranging from online exhibitions to virtual museum tours, from temporal maps to interactive documentaries, illustrates how the online environment is expanding and challenging conventional historical scholarship. The critical analyses, conducted through the lens of graphic, web, and information design, suggest the need for enhanced collaborations between historians and designers.
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