Welche Rolle spielt Design in gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozessen? Können Zukünfte und soziale Wirklichkeiten nachhaltig gestaltet werden - oder handelt es sich bei den Wirkungen gestalterischer Eingriffe um mehr oder weniger zufällige Reaktionen eigensinnig evolvierender sozialer Systeme auf gut gemeinte Interventionen?
Wie »entstehen« Stars und Designklassiker im Feld des Designs? Markus Köck befasst sich erstmals mit der Prominenz im Feld des Designs für den deutschsprachigen Raum und bietet einen Einblick in 13 Publikationen über einen Zeitraum von nahezu sechs Jahrzehnten sowie in seine Arbeit mit raren Quelltexten aus Finnland, Japan und den USA.
Besides products and services multinational corporations also sell myths, values and immaterial goods.
This book presents, above all, a study of the establishment and development of the Soviet organization and system of fashion industry and design as it gradually evolved in the years after the Second World War in the Soviet Union, which was, in the understanding of its leaders, reaching the mature or last stage of socialism when the country was firmly set on the straight trajectory to its final …
The last decade has seen the growing popularity and visibility of fashion as a cultural product, including its growing presence in museum exhibitions. This book explores the history of fashion curating and exhibitions, highlighting the continuity of past and present curatorial practices.
Os conceitos e aplicações da ergonomia estão em constante discussão no âmbito acadêmico, caracterizando um corpus de conhecimento de grande expressividade para a própria ciência ergonômica e demais áreas tecnológicas correlatas, a saber: engenharias, design, arquitetura, e outras.
O objetivo desta pesquisa foi verificar até que ponto a formação acadêmica ministrada nos cursos de design responde aos anseios da sociedade e do setor produtivo e o de coletar subsídios para a discussão da situação do ensino de design no Brasil e elaboração de estratégias que permitam sua melhoria de maneira a ter profissionais adequados ao desenvolvimento de produtos que, embora co…
Die Theorie der Produktsprache stellte einen Paradigmenwechsel in der Designtheorie dar. An der Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Offenbach in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren entwickelt, erweiterte sie das funktionalistische Verständnis von Produkten hinsichtlich ihrer Zeichenhaftigkeit und Bedeutungsdimension.
In its constructive and speculative nature, design has the critical potential to reshape prevalent socio-material realities. At the same time, design is inevitably normative, if not often violent, as it stabilises the past, normalises the present, and precludes just and sustainable futures.
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.