
Design by Use
The Everyday Metamorphosis of Things
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 2. October 2008
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-3-7643-8867-6 (ISBN)
Description
This publication explores and analyzes a very special kind of design - the phenomenon, as normal as it is wonderful, in which people with no formal training in design take things that have already been designed and reuse them, convert them to new uses, in short, "misuse" them in the very best sense of the word. Non-intentional design (NID) goes on every day, in every area of life, in every region of the world. Redesign through reuse makes things multifunctional and cleverly combines them to generate new functions. It is often reversible, resource-friendly, improvisational, innovative, and economical. It can become a source of inspiration for design, provided professional designers look up and take notice of what actually happens to all the things they design when they are used.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
210 farbige Abbildungen
210 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 22.4 cm
Width: 16.8 cm
Weight
536 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-8867-6 (9783764388676)
Schweitzer Classification
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E-Book
03/2013
1st Edition
Birkhäuser
€19.95
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Persons
Uta Brandes ist Professorin für Design-Forschung und für Gender und Design an der Köln International School of Design (KISD)
Author
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Content
Fluid Design and Research A View to other Disciplines Related Strategies Intentional Re-Design Non-Intentional Design - Empirically The Subjects: Objects and Strategies of Usage Re-Definition The Objects The Process of Discovery Non-Intentional Design in Public Spaces Design between Subject and Object Design as Applied Philosophy Learning Processes and Transformation Bibliography