The design philosophy reader / edited by Anne-Marie Willis.
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019Description: ix, 307 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43507ISBN: 9780857853509 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Design -- Philosophy | Art and DesignDDC classification: 745.4 WIL LOC classification: NK1505 | .D4 2019| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
What is design philosophy and why is it needed? This important book explains the discipline's recent emergence, the key questions which dominate it, and its potential to fundamentally change the way we practice and think about design.
The reader comprises eight thematic sections, each featuring a short, contextualising introduction and an annotated bibliography. It considers social, graphic, product and industrial design, and presents the writings of such leading design thinkers and philosophers as Deleuze and Heidegger, Aristotle and Plato. With texts ranging from philosophically informed writing on design and culture, to ancient and contemporary philosophy which addresses the concept of design, The Design Philosophy Reader is an impressive and pioneering work.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface and Acknowledgments (p. viii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Part I The Essence of Design
- Introduction (p. 11)
- 1 The Fault of Epimetheus (p. 13)
- 2 In the Beginning (p. 15)
- 3 A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design (p. 18)
- 4 The Depth of Design (p. 22)
- 5 Design as an Ontological Question (p. 27)
- Guide to Further Reading (p. 30)
- Part II The Practice of Design
- Introduction (p. 33)
- 6 Science, Art and Practical Wisdom (p. 36)
- 7 The Complication of Praxis (p. 39)
- 8 Technicity and Publicness: Steps Towards an Urban Space (p. 45)
- 9 The Existential Self as the Locus of Sustainability in Design (p. 54)
- 10 The Science of the Concrete (p. 60)
- 11 The Textility of Making (p. 64)
- Guide to Further Reading (p. 69)
- Part III The Ethos of Design
- Introduction (p. 73)
- 12 Artifacts: The Making Sentient of the External World (p. 75)
- 13 Ethics by Design or the Ethos of Things (p. 83)
- 14 Precariousness and Grievability (p. 91)
- 15 The One for the Other (p. 93)
- 16 Ethics in the Making (p. 96)
- Guide to Further Reading (p. 104)
- Part IV Design and the Other
- Introduction (p. 107)
- 17 What is Coloniality of Knowledge? (p. 110)
- 18 Enframing (p. 116)
- 19 The Violence of Humanitarian Design (p. 120)
- 20 The Force of Form, The Effect of Genre (p. 128)
- 21 Why Not an Alphabet? (p. 135)
- Guide to Further Reading (p. 137)
- Part V Being Designed and Things
- Introduction (p. 141)
- 22 The Thing (p. 143)
- 23 Materialism in Not the Solution: On Matter and Form (p. 149)
- 24 Is Design Finished? Dematerialisation and Changing Things (p. 152)
- 25 Beyond Affordances (p. 162)
- 26 Understanding, Ontology, Thrownness and Readiness-to-hand (p. 165)
- 27 Smart Meters Don't Make Us Any Smarter (p. 171)
- 28 Matter and Mattering or Why Are Things "Us'? (p. 173)
- Guide to Further Reading (p. 178)
- Part VI The Designing of Technology
- Introduction (p. 181)
- 29 Technology: Instrumental Metaphor and Cybernetic System (p. 184)
- 30 The Question Concerning Technology (p. 191)
- 33 Technical Mentality Gilbert Simondon, translated (p. 198)
- 32 The Finite Framework of Language (p. 207)
- 33 'This System Does Not Produce Pleasure Anymore' (p. 210)
- Guide to Further Reading (p. 217)
- Part VII The Designing of Visuality
- Introduction (p. 221)
- 34 On Form and Imitation (p. 224)
- 35 The Plato Effect in Architecture (p. 229)
- 36 An Art Which Imitates Art Pierre Bourdieu (p. 231)
- 37 Sign Function and Class Logic (p. 235)
- 38 The Production of Space (p. 243)
- Guide to Further Reading (p. 247)
- Part VIII Designing After the End
- Introduction (p. 251)
- 39 What is the Anthro-Political? (p. 254)
- 40 The Intrusion of Gaia (p. 258)
- 41 Cosmoecological Sheep and the Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (p. 262)
- 42 Outing Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning with Turing Tests (p. 268)
- 43 The Posthuman (p. 276)
- 44 Introducing 'The Sustainment' (p. 280)
- 45 Spinoza and Us (p. 284)
- Guide to Further Reading (p. 289)
- Select Bibliography (p. 291)
- Index (p. 302)
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