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The Routledge Companion to Design Research
This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Design Research offers an updated, comprehensive examination of design research, celebrating a plurality of voices and range of conceptual, methodological, technological and theoretical approaches evident in contemporary design research. This volume comprises thirty-eight original and high-quality design research chapters from contributors around the world, with offerings from the vast array of disciplines in and around modern design praxis, including areas such as industrial and product design, visual communication, interaction design, fashion design, service design, engineering and architecture. The Companion is divided into four distinct sect...
The Social Design Reader
The Social Design Reader explores the ways in which design can be a catalyst for social change. Bringing together key texts of the last fifty years, editor Elizabeth Resnick traces the emergence of the notion of socially responsible design. This volume represents the authentic voices of the thinkers, writers and designers who are helping to build a 'canon' of informed literature which documents the development of the discipline. The Social Design Reader is divided into three parts. Section 1: Making a Stand includes an introduction to the term 'social design' and features papers which explore its historical underpinnings. Section 2: Creating the Future documents the emergence of social design as a concept, as a nascent field of study, and subsequently as a rapidly developing professional discipline, and Section 3: A Sea Change is made up of papers acknowledging social design as a firmly established practice. Contextualising section introductions are provided to aid readers in understanding the original source material, while summary boxes clearly articulate how each text fits with the larger milieu of social design theory, methods, and practice.
Design Anthropology
Design is a key site of cultural production and change in contemporary society. Anthropologists have been involved in design projects for several decades but only recently a new field of inquiry has emerged which aims to integrate the strengths of design thinking and anthropological research. This book is written by anthropologists who actively participate in the development of design anthropology. Comprising both cutting-edge explorations and theoretical reflections, it provides a much-needed introduction to the concepts, methods, practices and challenges of the new field. Design Anthropology moves from observation and interpretation to collaboration, intervention and co-creation. Its pract...
Design + Craft
Head and hands, heart and soul: the people of different profiles unified, holding multiple and complementary skills and a variety of life trajectories that comes up in what might be called Brazilian identity. Each day more, artisans and designers work together in initiatives to revitalize artisanal in all their diversity, complexity and beauty. This meeting has generated a success outcome: high-quality products interconnected, in arguments and materials, to those communities in which they were made, improving the lives of producers and users producing a fairer and more equal development of the country. In addition, this association helps against the prejudice that assigns inferiority connotation to handmade things, and superiority to things designed by the intellect. These and many other cases, their reach, potential and risks, are the object of thought-provoking analysis by designer and journalist Adélia Borges, who inspires the reader into purchasing a product, not only for its aesthetic form and function, but also, and above all, for the affection, memories and culture impregnated in each of these handmade objects.
Graphic borderlines
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Maurício Azeredo
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Women and Media
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Brazilian design today
This exhibition shows us how different sectors of design production ally art, a Brazilian character and technology to create objects utilized in our daily lives that take our culture to the four corners of the world. The exhibition intent is to present a transversal view of this moment, aiming at highlighting some revealing examples that attest to the creative ability of Brazil from different fields of design. All projects included are after the year 2000 and by designers living in Brazil (including foreigners who adopted Brazil as home), and works by Brazilian born designers scallered around the world. Designers are included from different regions in Brazil as well as from different generat...
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