Design by Use The Everyday Metamorphosis of Things

Name: Design by Use The Everyday Metamorphosis of Things
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ISBN: 9783764388676

ISBN-10: 3764388676

ISBN-13: 9783764388676

Edition: 2009

Authors: Uta Brandes, Sonja Stich, Miriam Wender

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This publication explores and analyzes a very special kind of design the phenomenon, as normal as it is wonderful, in which people with no formal training in design take things that have already been designed and reuse them, convert them to new uses, in short, "misuse" them in the very best sense of the word. In their many years of research, the authors of this volume have coined the term "non-intentional design" (NID) to describe this activity. NID goes on every day, in every area of life, in every region of the world. Redesign through reuse makes things multifunctional and cleverly combines them to generate new functions. It is often reversible, resource-friendly, improvisational,…

Book details

List price: $53.50
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag GmbH
Publication date: 1/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Foreword BIRD


Fluid Design & Research


A View of Other Disciplines


Related Strategies of Discovery


Intentional Re-Design


Non-Intentional Design from an Empiricist Perspective


The Subjects: Objects of, and Reasons for, Repurposing


The Objects


The Process of Discovery


Non-Intentional Design in Public Spaces


Design between Subject and Object


Design as Applied Philosophy


Bibliography


The Authors


Picture Credits