Communication, Space, and Design The Integral Relation between Communication and Design

by Rodriguez, Amardo

• ISBN13: 9780761832867
• ISBN10: 0761832866
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-10
• Publisher: Hamilton Books

Summary

"Communication, Space, & Design looks at how our worldview shapes our relations to and conceptions of space and place, and how our spaces and designs impact our communication practices. By asserting that our spaces and designs are increasingly promoting various expressions of separation, this book contends that this separation turns makes us more private. We find this increasing inwardness, for example, in the rise of gated-communities, exclusionary suburbs, and hyper-suburbs. Ultimately, the book asks how our spaces and designs impact our understanding and embodying of democracy, civility, and justice. It also explores how this inward turn limits our sense of obligation to the world and each other by undermining our ability to develop the communicational resiliency and moral sophistication that comes with through public interactions."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Amardo Rodriguez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communications and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University.

Table of Contents

Prologue	vii
Implications of Physical Fragmentation	1	(12)
Background
The Economics of Fragmentation
The Crisis of Communication
On Being Human
Final Thoughts
Locating the Communication Origins of New Spaces and Designs	13	(14)
Communication as Meaning Creation and Meaning Negotiation
New Understandings of the World
Communication and the Jumping Universe
The Promise of Dialogue and Emergence
Final Thoughts
Locating and Dislocating Community In a Global World	27	(14)
Searching for Community
Community as a Verb
The Promise of Community
Final Thoughts
Searching For New Models of Space in Spanglish	41	(12)
Check Miscellaneous
Spanglish and Its Critics
Discussion
Final Thoughts
Department of Homeland Security	53	(14)
The Marriage Between Space and Knowledge
The Dawning of a New Knowledge
On Fragmentation & Union	67	(2)
Space & Ecology	69	(6)
The Walls of the Bible	75	(10)
The Gospels of Matthew Mark, and John
New Gods and Straight Lines
Epilogue	85	(2)
References	87	(6)
Index	93	(2)
About the Author	95