The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design StudiesEmerging from the world of commercial art and product styling, design has now become completely integrated into human life. Its marks are all around us, from the chairs we sit on to the Web sites on our computer screens. One of the pioneers of design studies and still one of its most distinguished practitioners, Victor Margolin here offers a timely meditation on design and its study at the turn of the millennium and charts new directions for the future development of both fields. Divided into sections on the practice and study of design, the essays in The Politics of the Artificial cover such topics as design history, design research, design as a political tool, sustainable design, and the problems of design's relation to advanced technologies. Margolin also examines the work of key practitioners such as the matrix designer Ken Isaacs. Throughout the book Margolin demonstrates the underlying connections between the many ways of reflecting on and practicing design. He argues for the creation of an international, interdisciplinary field of design research and proposes a new ethical agenda for designers and researchers that encompasses the responsibility to users, the problems of sustainability, and the complicated questions of how to set boundaries for applying advanced technology to solve the problems of human life. Opinionated and erudite, Victor Margolin's The Politics of the Artificial breaks fresh ground in its call for a new approach to design research and practice. Designers, engineers, architects, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians will all benefit from its insights. |
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... relation between the different forces in the world , from the most noble to the most base . Overwhelmed by the hope and expectation that I , a young dropout with a good undergraduate education , might be the one to ac- complish what no ...
... relation between the different forces in the world , from the most noble to the most base . Overwhelmed by the hope and expectation that I , a young dropout with a good undergraduate education , might be the one to ac- complish what no ...
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... relation between these realms was dialectical . In the best of all possible worlds , humans in the bio- sphere transformed energy from the cosmosphere into a humane sociosphere.1 I worked hard on a notational system that could function ...
... relation between these realms was dialectical . In the best of all possible worlds , humans in the bio- sphere transformed energy from the cosmosphere into a humane sociosphere.1 I worked hard on a notational system that could function ...
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... relationship with a user become part of the responsive environment . As Donald Norman and others have pointed out , designers ... relation of products to users is severely underre- searched . We need more data on the personal and social ...
... relationship with a user become part of the responsive environment . As Donald Norman and others have pointed out , designers ... relation of products to users is severely underre- searched . We need more data on the personal and social ...
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... relation with it . In " The Two Herberts , " I juxtapose Herbert Simon's well - known proposal for a science of design with Herbert Marcuse's idea of history as a tool of critical reflection . I use Marcuse to challenge Simon's implicit ...
... relation with it . In " The Two Herberts , " I juxtapose Herbert Simon's well - known proposal for a science of design with Herbert Marcuse's idea of history as a tool of critical reflection . I use Marcuse to challenge Simon's implicit ...
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... relation between art and design at the ID when they were there . Bellin thought of the journal's title . I was the editor for the first three years . Following that , the UIC School of Art and Design continued to publish the journal for ...
... relation between art and design at the ID when they were there . Bellin thought of the journal's title . I was the editor for the first three years . Following that , the UIC School of Art and Design continued to publish the journal for ...
Contents
Thinking about Design at the End of the Millennium | 13 |
Design at the Crossroads | 29 |
The Experience of Products | 39 |
Matrix Designer | 61 |
Two Models of Development | 79 |
Design for a Sustainable World | 93 |
The Politics of the Artificial | 107 |
II | 125 |
Narrative Problems of Graphic Design History | 189 |
Micky Wolfsons Cabinet of Wonders | 203 |
Design History and Design Studies | 219 |
The Two Herberts | 235 |
The Multiple Tasks of Design Studies | 245 |
Sources | 261 |
Illustration Credits | 264 |
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