Binding: Paperback
Description: Since the 1990s in response to dramatic transformations in the worlds of technology and the economy design a once relatively definable discipline complete with a set of subdisciplines has become unrecognizable. Consequently design scholars have begun to address new issues themes and sub - disciplines such as: sustainable design design for well - being empathic design design activism design anthropology and many more. The Routledge Companion to Design Studies charts this new expanded spectrum and embraces the wide range of scholarship relating to design theoretical practice - related and historical that has emerged over the past four decades. Comprising forty - three newly commissioned chapters the Companion is organized into the following six sections: Defining design: discipline process Defining design: objects spaces Designing identities: gender sexuality age nation Designing society: empathy responsibility consumption the everyday Design and politics: activism intervention regulation Designing the world: globalization transnationalism translation. Contributors include both established and emerging scholars and the chapters offer an international scope covering work emanating from and relating to design in the United Kingdom mainland Europe North America Asia Australasia and Africa. This comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of Design Studies.
Title: The Routledge Companion To Design Studies
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367201685
Pages: 554 Pages, 9 Tables, Black And White
Publication Date: 2/26/2019
Series: Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
Category: Media Studies