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Summary

We now live in a designed world and we need to develop a better understanding of how to discuss and critique its design components. The essays presented here - selected from the preeminent journal, Design Issues - are intended to enhance our collective understanding of the wide reach of design in the contemporary world. The book is structured to cover the life of a designed object or project from conception and fabrication to evaluation. The essays are divided into themed sections, with each section separately introduced and each concluded with further reading. The Designed World aims to break down the often rigid boundaries between history, theory and criticism. Despite the wide range of subjects discussed, the book highlights the commonalities across all aspects of design. The reader will be invaluable to students, scholars and practitioners across the field of design.

Author Biography

Richard Buchanan is Professor of Design, Management and Information Systems at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. He is editor of Discovering Design, The Idea of Design, and Pluralism in Theory and Practice. Dennis Doordan is Professor of Architectural and Design History at Notre Dame University. He is author of Twentieth Century Architecture and editor of Design History: An Anthology. Victor Margolin is Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His books include Design Discourse, Discovering Design, The Idea of Design, The Struggle for Utopia, and The Politics of the Artificial.

General Introduction 4000 words
Conceptualization
Introduction: 2000 words
"Branzi's Dilemma: Design in Contemporary Culture" 14.1 (Spring 1998): 3-20
"Designing the Artificial: An Interdisciplinary Study" 17:2 (Spring 2001): 4-16
"A Scenario for Design" 17:2 (Spring 2001): 4-16
"Information and Reality at the Turn of the Century," 11:2 (Summer 1995): 21-30
"Thorstein Veblen aat the University of Chicago and the Socialization of Aesthetics" 15:1 (Spring 1999): 3-15
"Adolf Loos and the Aphoristic Style: Rhetorical Practice in Early Twentieth-Century Design Criticism" 16:2 (Summer 2000): 75-86
"The things that Matter" 14:3 (Autumn 1998): 28-42
"Domestication of Everyday Life Technology: Dynamic Views on the Social Histories of Artifacts" 13:3 (Autumn 1997): 52-65
"Environmental Design and Industrial Design: Integrating Knowledge Around Urgent Issues" 14:3 (Autumn 1998): 74-84
Annotated Guide to Further Reading
Fabrication
Introduction 1500 words
The Design of Objects
Introduction: 1000 words
"Simulated Seas: Exhibition Design in contemporary Aquariums" 11:2 (Summer 1995) 3-10
"The Arts of War: Visual Presentation and National Intelligence" 12:2 (summer 1996): 3-21
"'This is my Brain Book': Day Timers and Expedient Design" 12:2 Summer 1996: 40-46
"The Design of the Connection Machine" 10:1 (Spring 1994): 5-18
"Accidental Machines: The Impact of Popular Participation in Computer Technology" 14:1 (Spring 1998): 54-80
"Typography and the Screen: A Technical Chronology of Digital Typography, 1984-1997" 16:3 (Autumn 2000): 19-34
Material and Immaterial Things
Introduction: 1000 words
"History from Things: Notes on the History of Industrial Design" 14:3 (Autumn 1998): 43-64
"Olympus and the Marketplace: Reyner Banham and Design Criticism" 13:2 (Summer 1997): 24-35
"Visibility in Progress" 12:3 (Autumn 1996): 3-13
"Softening Up the Facts: Engineers in Design Meetings" 17:3 (Summer 2001): 67-82
"Fourth Order Design: A Practical Perspective" 12:1 (Spring 1996): 5-25
Annotated Guide to Further Reading
Evaluation
Introduction 2000 words
"It's a Nice World After All: The Vision of Difference in Colors" 12:3 (Autumn 1996): 60-76
"Design, Environment, and Social Quality: From 'Existenzminimum' to 'Quality Maximum'" 10:1 (spring 1994); 37-43
"Values in Design: Existenzminimum, Maximum Quality, and Optimal Balance" 12:1 (Spring 1996): 38-47
"Science, Semiotics, and Society: The Ulm Hochschule für Gestaltung in Retrospect" 14:2 (Summer 1998): 67-82
"Ecological Design: A New Critique" 13: 2 (Summer 1997): 44-54
"Biophilia and Technophilia: Examining the Nature/Culture Split in Design Theory" 13:3 (Autumn 1997): 37-44
"Ethics, Aesthetics, and Design" 10:2 (Summer 1994): 49-68
Annotated Guide to Further Reading
Consolidated Bibliography
Index
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