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The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice
A speculative framework that imagines how we can use education data to promote play, creativity, and social justice over normativity and conformity. Educational analytics tend toward aggregation, asking what a “normative” learner does. In The Left Hand of Data, educational researchers Matthew Berland and Antero Garcia start from a different assumption—that outliers are, and must be tre…
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Possible Palladian villas :(plus a few instructively impossible ones)
Drawing on Palladio's original published legacy of approximately 40 designs, the authors attempt to reveal the rigorous geometric rules by which Palladio conceived these structures. Using a computer, they test each rule in every possible application.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262367851
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- 1 online resource (188 pages) :illustrations.
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Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications
An introduction to a powerful and flexible network modeling tool for developing and understanding complex systems, with many examples from a range of industries.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301428
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- 1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) :color illustrations.
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Pretense Design: Surface Over Substance
How some design appears to be something that it is not--by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving. Pretense design pretends to be something that it is not. Pretense design includes all kinds of designed objects: a pair of glasses that looks like a fashion accessory rather than a medical necessity, a hotel in Las Vegas that simulates a Venetian ambience complete with canals and gondola…
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- 1 online resource (224 pages).
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Modernity and housing
Explores the social, cultural, and expressive history of housing during two periods: the large-scale developments in the 1920s, and the widespread modernist principles in the 1970s. A theoretical and historical inquiry, the text also aims to inspire the design of modern housing.
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Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World
Engineering, for much of the twentieth century, was mainly about artifacts and inventions. Now, it's increasingly about complex systems. As the airplane taxis to the gate, you access the Internet and check email with your PDA, linking the communication and transportation systems. At home, you recharge your plug-in hybrid vehicle, linking transportation to the electricity grid. Today's large-sca…
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- 9781613445891
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The Color Revolution
A history of color and commerce from haute couture to automobile showrooms to interior design.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262305348
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 380 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Design unbound designing for emergence in a white water world.
Includes index.Tools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world. 'Design Unbound' presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century, in what the authors characterize as a white water world-rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent. These are the tools of a new kind of practice that is the offspring of…
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Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--Royal College of Art, 2013) under the title: Purposes, poetics, and publics : the shifting dynamics of design criticism in the US and UK, 1955-2007.Product design criticism operates at the very brink of the landfill site, salvaging some products with praise but consigning others to its depths through condemnation or indifference. When a designed produ…
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- 1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) :illustrations
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Adversarial Design
An exploration of the political qualities of technology design, as seen in projects that span art, computer science, and consumer products.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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