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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... results . In the last essay of part 1 , " The Politics of the Artificial , " which originated as a lecture at the ... result as when we imagine the form of a new toy for children . The essay title plays polemically on Herbert Simon's ...
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... results . It is also particularly useful as a mapping tool to show where and when different research initiatives began , and it can help in exploring the reasons why they came together or remained separate . My essay " Design History in ...
... results . It is also particularly useful as a mapping tool to show where and when different research initiatives began , and it can help in exploring the reasons why they came together or remained separate . My essay " Design History in ...
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... result could be a kind of " thick dis- course , " which stems from the recognition that new thinking grows to a high degree from engagement with the thought of others rather than from attempt- ing to invent theories and arguments in ...
... result could be a kind of " thick dis- course , " which stems from the recognition that new thinking grows to a high degree from engagement with the thought of others rather than from attempt- ing to invent theories and arguments in ...
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... results in years to come . 1 Currently , I would call the sociosphere the realm of the artificial and the biosphere , the realm of the natural . However , technological advances , as I indicate in " The Politics of the Artificial ...
... results in years to come . 1 Currently , I would call the sociosphere the realm of the artificial and the biosphere , the realm of the natural . However , technological advances , as I indicate in " The Politics of the Artificial ...
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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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