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The spirit of design : objects, environment, and meaning / Stuart Walker.
Publication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Earthscan, 2011.Description: x, 258 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781849713634 :
- 1849713634 :
- TS171.4 .W35 2011
Contents:
1. Introduction 2. Sambo's Stones: Sustainability and Meaningful Objects 3. Following Will'o The Wisps and Chasing Ghosts: Re-Directing Design Through Practice-Based Research 4. After Taste: the Power and Prejudice of Product Appearance 5. Extant Objects: Seeing Through Design 6. Sermons in Stones: Argument and Artefact for Sustainability 7. Gentle Arrangements: Objects of Disciplined Empathy 8. The Chimera Reified: Design, Meaning and the Post-Consumerism Object 9. The Spirit of Design: Notes from the Shakuhachi Flute 10. Wrapped Attention: Designing Products for Evolving Permanence and Enduring Meaning 11. Temporal Objects: Design, Change and Sustainability 12. Meaning in the Mundane: Aesthetics, Technology and Spiritual Values 13. Wordless Questions: the Physical, the Virtual and the Meaningful 14. Epilogue
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | TS 171.4 .W35 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5038915 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction 2. Sambo's Stones: Sustainability and Meaningful Objects 3. Following Will'o The Wisps and Chasing Ghosts: Re-Directing Design Through Practice-Based Research 4. After Taste: the Power and Prejudice of Product Appearance 5. Extant Objects: Seeing Through Design 6. Sermons in Stones: Argument and Artefact for Sustainability 7. Gentle Arrangements: Objects of Disciplined Empathy 8. The Chimera Reified: Design, Meaning and the Post-Consumerism Object 9. The Spirit of Design: Notes from the Shakuhachi Flute 10. Wrapped Attention: Designing Products for Evolving Permanence and Enduring Meaning 11. Temporal Objects: Design, Change and Sustainability 12. Meaning in the Mundane: Aesthetics, Technology and Spiritual Values 13. Wordless Questions: the Physical, the Virtual and the Meaningful 14. Epilogue
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