"Building on recent debates in critical social theory and international relations, Making Things International I: Circuits and Motion presents twenty-five essays that engage the global, the local, and the international through the lens of objects. It represents the first substan…
"Building on recent debates in critical social theory and international relations, Making Things International I: Circuits and Motion presents twenty-five essays that engage the global, the local, and the international through the lens of objects. It represents the first substan…
Die Welt verstehen, ohne einen Fuß vor die Tür zu setzen. In seinem alten Pfarrhaus im Osten Englands betrachtet Bill Bryson alltägliche Dinge, die sich zur Erklärung sozialhistorischer Zusammenhänge ausgezeichnet eignen. Warum und seit wann gibt es Betten? Warum kam roter Backs…
Provides instructions for making projects using inexpensive materials from around the house to craft a milk carton balloon boat, rubber band banjo, and an embroidery hoop tambourine.
The Russian avant-garde of the 1920s is broadly recognised to have been Russia's first truly original contribution to world culture. In contrast, Soviet design of the post-war period is often dismissed as hack-work and plagiarism that resulted in a shabby world of commodities. T…
What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains? In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from that v…
Exquisite Materials explores the connections between gay subjects, material objects, and the social and aesthetic landscapes in which they circulated. Each of the book's four chapters takes up as a case study a figure or set of figures whose life and work dramatize different asp…
Psychologische aspecten van de wisselwerking tussen de (toekomstige) industriële vormgeving van apparaten en consumentengedrag.
Don Norman points out what is going wrong with the wave of products just coming on the market and some that are on drawing boards everywhere - from 'smart' cars and homes that seek to anticipate a user's every need to the latest automatic navigational systems.
In The Design of Future Things, best-selling author Donald A. Norman presents a revealing examination of smart technology, from smooth-talking GPS units to cantankerous refrigerators. Exploring the links between design and human psychology, he offers a consumer-oriented theory o…
Don Norman points out what is going wrong with the wave of products just coming on the market and some that are on drawing boards everywhere - from 'smart' cars and homes that seek to anticipate a user's every need to the latest automatic navigational systems.
The economic shaping of constructivism -- A blank slate : the first years of Soviet propaganda porcelain -- Nadezhda Lamanova : on the elegant fringes of constructivist dress -- Esfir Shub : "magician of the editing table"--The five-year plan prompts a fire sale "Examines how R…
"Examines how Russian Constructivist artists in the 1920s imagined a new physical environment through the use of recycled and reappropriated objects"--Provided by publisher.
