The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design
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| Autore: |
Flusser Vilém
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| Titolo: |
The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design
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| Pubblicazione: | [Place of publication not identified], : Reaktion Books, , 1999 |
| Edizione: | 1st English ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (129 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 745.4/01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Design |
| Philosophy | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Discursive works |
| Essay Collection | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | CostleyRon |
| LewisPhilip | |
| MathewsAnthony | |
| PawleyMartin | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-125) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; The Shape of Things A Philosophy of Design; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction; About the Word Design; Form and Material; War and the State of Things; About Forms and Formulae; The Designer's Way of Seeing; The Factory; The Lever Strikes Back; Shelters, Screens and Tents; Design: Obstacle for/to the Removal of Obstacles; Why Do Typewriters Go 'Click'?; The Ethics of Industrial Design?; Design as Theology; Wittgenstein's Architecture; Bare Walls; With As Many Holes As a Swiss Cheese; The Non-Thing 1; The Non-Thing 2; Carpets; Pots; Shamans and Dancers with Masks; The Submarine; Wheels |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "This book presents for the first time in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher Vilém Flusser. It puts forward the view that our future depends on design. In a series of insightful essays on such ordinary "things" as wheels, carpets, pots, umbrellas and tents, Flusser emphasizes the interrelationships between art and science, theology and technology, and archaeology and architecture. Just as formal creativity has produced both weapons of destruction and great works of art, Flusser believed that the shape of things (and the designs behind them) represents both a threat and an opportunity for designers of the future."-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The shape of things |
| ISBN: | 9781780232362 |
| 1780232365 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910968109703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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