Design for the Real World | Preface
First published in 1971, Victor Papanek’s lively and instructive guide shows how design can reduce pollution, overcrowding, starvation, obsolescence and other modern ills.
First published in 1971, Victor Papanek’s lively and instructive guide shows how design can reduce pollution, overcrowding, starvation, obsolescence and other modern ills.
Read about two design process models from the Delft Design Guide – known by most students as the IDE Bible (treat it accordingly). We assume you have bought this book for Design Project 1, we suggest reading these two pages (and optionally the spread before and after it) to get an idea of the formalisation of design from the IDE TU Delft perspective.
A chapter of the Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design on the Heritage (aka history) of participatory design.
Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need.
Craig Martin’s book illuminates the “development of containerization”- including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers.
According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. With this book, Csikszentmihalyi aims to offer an understanding of what leads to these moments.