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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458179203321

Autore

Protzen Jean-Pierre

Titolo

The universe of design : Horst Rittel's theories of design and planning / / Jean-Pierre Protzen and David J. Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-97045-2

1-282-62953-0

9786612629532

0-203-85158-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HarrisDavid J. <1965->

Disciplina

620/.0042

Soggetti

Engineering design - Management

Industrial design - Methodology

Industrial engineering - Methodology

System theory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Part One: Foundations; Chapter 1.1 Reflections on the Scientific and Political Significance of Decision Theory; Chapter 1.2 Science and Design Seminars: Introduction: Out of the Cave; Chapter 1.3 Seminar 1: Modes of Innovation; Chapter 1.4 Seminar 2: Images and Messages; Chapter 1.5 Seminar 3: Communications; Chapter 1.6 Seminar 4: Establishing Order; Chapter 1.7 Seminar 5: Measuring Values and Images; Chapter 1.8 Seminar 6: Environments; Chapter 1.9 Seminar 7: Design

Chapter 1.10 Seminar 8: Models of and for Design (Part 1)Chapter 1.11 Seminar 9: Models of and for Design (Part 2); Chapter 1.12 Seminar 10: Conclusion; Part Two: Wicked Problems; Chapter 2.1 On the Planning Crisis: Systems Analysis of the First and Second Generations; Part Three: Design Reasoning; Chapter 3.1 Structure and Usefulness of Planning Information Systems; Chapter 3.2 Issues as Elements of Information Systems; Chapter 3.3 The Reasoning of Designers; Part



Four: Consequences of Design; Chapter 4.1 Technological Change and Urban Structure

Chapter 4.2 On Rittel's Pathologies of PlanningEpilogue; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the theoretical foundations of the processes of planning and design. When people - alone or in groups - want to solve problems or improve their situation, they make plans. Horst Rittel studied this process of making plans and he developed theories - including his notion of ""wicked problems"" - that are used in many fields today. From product design, architecture and planning - where Rittel's work was originally developed - to governmental agencies, business schools and software design, Rittel's ideas are being used. This book collects previously unavailable work o

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784664203321

Autore

Flueckiger Joyce Burkhalter

Titolo

In Amma's healing room [[electronic resource] ] : gender and vernacular Islam in South India / / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006

ISBN

9786612072840

1-282-07284-6

0-253-11201-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/69739

Soggetti

Muslim women - India - Hyderabad (District)

Healers - India - Hyderabad (District)

Hyderabad (India : District) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration; Introduction: Called to Amma's Courtyard; 1 Setting the Stage: The Healing Room, Its Actors, and Its Rhythms; 2 The Healing System; 3 Patient Narratives in the Healing Room; 4 Negotiating



Gender in the Healing Room; 5 Religious Identities at the Crossroads; 6 Immersed in Remembrance and Song: Religious Identities, Authority, and Gender at the Samà„; Conclusion: Vernacular Islam Embedded in Relationships; Epilogue; Appendix: Death and Difference: A Conversation; Glossary; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

""[I]t is extremely salubrious to see the ways Islam works in the lives of ordinary people who are not politicized in their religious lives.... No other book on South Asia has material like this."" -Ann Grodzins GoldIn Amma's Healing Room is a compelling study of the life and thought of a female Muslim spiritual healer in Hyderabad, South India. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger describes Amma's practice as a form of vernacular Islam arising in a particular locality, one in which the boundaries between Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity are fluid. In the ""healing room,"" Amma meet