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Doing things with things : the design and use of everyday objects / edited by Alan Costall and Ole Dreier.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ethnoscapes (Unnumbered)Publisher: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2006Description: viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0754646564
  • 9780754646563
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 22
LOC classification:
  • GN406 .D65 2006
Contents:
The case of the recalcitrant prototype / Beth Preston -- Use plans and artefact functions / Pieter E. Vermaas and Wybo Houkes -- Autism and object use / Emma Williams and Linda Kendell-Scott -- Object use in pretend play / Agnes Szokolszky -- Culture, language and canonicality / Kristine Jensen De López -- The cognitive biographies of things / David de Léon -- The woman who used her walking stick as a telephone / Hysse Birgitte Forchhammer -- Politics of things / Estrid Sørensen -- Working with material things / Finn Olesen and Randi Markussen -- Words and things / Steven D. Brown and David Middleton -- Learning to do things with things / Klaus Nielsen -- Urban makings and the formalisation of informal settlements / Gustavo Ribeiro -- --
1. The case of the recalcitrant prototype / Beth Preston -- 2. Use plans and artefact functions : an intentionalist approach to artefacts and their use / Pieter E. Vermaas and Wybo Houkes -- 3. Autism and object use : the mutuality of the social and material in children's developing understanding and use of everyday objects / Emma Williams and Linda Kendell-Scott -- 4. Object use in pretend play : symbolic or functional? / Agnes Szokolszky -- 5. Culture, language and canonicality : differences in the use of containers between zapotec (Mexican indigenous) and Danish children / Kristine Jensen de Lopez -- 6. The cognitive biographies of things / David de Leon -- 7. The woman who used her walking stick as a telephone : the use of utilities in praxis / Hysse Birgitte Forchhammer -- 8. Politics of things : the interplay of design and practice in a design workshop with children / Estrid Sorensen -- 9. Working with material things : from essentialism to material-semiotic analysis of sociotechnical practice / Finn Olesen and Randi Markussen -- 10. Words and things : discursive and non-discursive ordering in a networked organisation / Steven D. Brown and David Middleton -- 11. Learning to do things with things : apprenticeship learning in bakery as economy and social practice / Klaus Nielsen -- 12. Urban makings and the formalisation of informal settlements / Gustavo Ribeiro.
Summary: Reflecting a growing interest within the human sciences about how people relate to objects, the contributors to this book mainly focus on everyday objects and how these objects enter into our activities over the course of time.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The case of the recalcitrant prototype / Beth Preston -- Use plans and artefact functions / Pieter E. Vermaas and Wybo Houkes -- Autism and object use / Emma Williams and Linda Kendell-Scott -- Object use in pretend play / Agnes Szokolszky -- Culture, language and canonicality / Kristine Jensen De López -- The cognitive biographies of things / David de Léon -- The woman who used her walking stick as a telephone / Hysse Birgitte Forchhammer -- Politics of things / Estrid Sørensen -- Working with material things / Finn Olesen and Randi Markussen -- Words and things / Steven D. Brown and David Middleton -- Learning to do things with things / Klaus Nielsen -- Urban makings and the formalisation of informal settlements / Gustavo Ribeiro -- --

1. The case of the recalcitrant prototype / Beth Preston -- 2. Use plans and artefact functions : an intentionalist approach to artefacts and their use / Pieter E. Vermaas and Wybo Houkes -- 3. Autism and object use : the mutuality of the social and material in children's developing understanding and use of everyday objects / Emma Williams and Linda Kendell-Scott -- 4. Object use in pretend play : symbolic or functional? / Agnes Szokolszky -- 5. Culture, language and canonicality : differences in the use of containers between zapotec (Mexican indigenous) and Danish children / Kristine Jensen de Lopez -- 6. The cognitive biographies of things / David de Leon -- 7. The woman who used her walking stick as a telephone : the use of utilities in praxis / Hysse Birgitte Forchhammer -- 8. Politics of things : the interplay of design and practice in a design workshop with children / Estrid Sorensen -- 9. Working with material things : from essentialism to material-semiotic analysis of sociotechnical practice / Finn Olesen and Randi Markussen -- 10. Words and things : discursive and non-discursive ordering in a networked organisation / Steven D. Brown and David Middleton -- 11. Learning to do things with things : apprenticeship learning in bakery as economy and social practice / Klaus Nielsen -- 12. Urban makings and the formalisation of informal settlements / Gustavo Ribeiro.

Reflecting a growing interest within the human sciences about how people relate to objects, the contributors to this book mainly focus on everyday objects and how these objects enter into our activities over the course of time.

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