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Design by use : the everyday metamorphosis of things / Uta Brandes, Sonja Stich, Miriam Wender.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 192 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 3764388676
  • 9783764388676
Other title:
  • Everyday metamorphosis of things
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.4 21
LOC classification:
  • TS171 .B73 2009
Contents:
Fluid Design and Research -- A View to other Disciplines -- Related Strategies -- Intentional Re-Design -- Non-Intentional Design - Empirically -- The Subjects: Objects and Strategies of Usage Re-Definition -- The Objects -- The Process of Discovery -- Non-Intentional Design in Public Spaces -- Design between Subject and Object -- Design as Applied Philosophy -- Learning Processes and Transformation.
Summary: "This publication explores and analyzes a very special kind of design - the phenomenon, as normal as it is wonderful, in which people with no formal training in design take things that have already been designed and reuse them, convert them to new uses, in short, "misuse" them in the very best sense of the word. Non-intentional design (NID) goes on every day, in every area of life, in every region of the world. Redesign through reuse makes things multifunctional and cleverly combines them to generate new functions. It is often reversible, resource-friendly, improvisational, innovative, and economical. It can become a source of inspiration for design, provided professional designers look up and take notice of what actually happens to all the things they design when they are used."--Publisher's website.
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"Board of International Research in Design, BIRD"--P. facing t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-189).

Fluid Design and Research -- A View to other Disciplines -- Related Strategies -- Intentional Re-Design -- Non-Intentional Design - Empirically -- The Subjects: Objects and Strategies of Usage Re-Definition -- The Objects -- The Process of Discovery -- Non-Intentional Design in Public Spaces -- Design between Subject and Object -- Design as Applied Philosophy -- Learning Processes and Transformation.

"This publication explores and analyzes a very special kind of design - the phenomenon, as normal as it is wonderful, in which people with no formal training in design take things that have already been designed and reuse them, convert them to new uses, in short, "misuse" them in the very best sense of the word. Non-intentional design (NID) goes on every day, in every area of life, in every region of the world. Redesign through reuse makes things multifunctional and cleverly combines them to generate new functions. It is often reversible, resource-friendly, improvisational, innovative, and economical. It can become a source of inspiration for design, provided professional designers look up and take notice of what actually happens to all the things they design when they are used."--Publisher's website.

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