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Designing things : a critical introduction to the culture of objects / Prasad Boradkar.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2010Edition: English editionDescription: ix, 326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1845204271
  • 9781845204273
  • 1845204263
  • 9781845204266
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.401 22
LOC classification:
  • NK1505 .B67 2010
Contents:
Theorizing things: disciplinary diversity in thinking about objects -- Valued possessions: the worth of things -- Making things: labor in production -- Producing things: a history of systems of manufacture -- Beautiful things: the aesthetics of surfaces -- The greed imperative: user needs in product design -- Planned obsolescence: unsustainable consumption -- Objects as signs: what do things mean? -- The obsession of possession: fetish objects.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theorizing things: disciplinary diversity in thinking about objects -- Valued possessions: the worth of things -- Making things: labor in production -- Producing things: a history of systems of manufacture -- Beautiful things: the aesthetics of surfaces -- The greed imperative: user needs in product design -- Planned obsolescence: unsustainable consumption -- Objects as signs: what do things mean? -- The obsession of possession: fetish objects.

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