Design Revolution
Author: Emily Pilloton
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA good long tradition. Design can change the world. Water. Well-being. Energy. Education. Mobility. Food. Play. Enterprise.
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The Design Revolution
Author: William A. Dembski
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2004-01-13
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0830832165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by a noted expert on and popular advocate of intelligent design, this book explores more than 60 of the toughest questions asked by experts and non-experts.
China's Design Revolution
Author: Lorraine Justice
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0262017423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe evolution of Chinese design and the major shift in the culture of creativity in a post-Mao China. China is on the verge of a design revolution. A "third generation" of the People's Republic of China that came of age during China's "opening up" period of the 1980s now strives for fame, fortune, and self expression. This generation, workers in their thirties and forties, has more freedom to create--and to consume--than their parents or grandparents. In China's Design Revolution, Lorraine Justice maps the evolution of Chinese design and innovation. Justice explains that just as this "third generation" (post-Revolution, post-Cultural Revolution) reaches for self-expression, China's government is making massive investments in design and innovation, supporting design and creative activities (including design education programs, innovation parks, and privatized companies) at the local and national levels. The goal is to stimulate economic growth--and to establish China as a global creative power. Influenced by Mao and Confucius, communism and capitalism, patriotism and cosmopolitanism, China's third generation will drive the culture of design and innovation in China--and maybe the rest of the world. Justice describes and documents examples of Chinese design and innovation that range from ancient ceramics to communist propaganda posters. She then explores current award-winning projects in media, fashion, graphic, interior, and product design; and examines the lifestyle and purchasing trends of the "fourth generation," now in their teens and twenties. China's Design Revolution offers an essential guide to the inextricably entwined stories of design, culture, and politics in China.
The Sixties
Author: Lesley Jackson
Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLesley Jackson traces the transition from the contemporary design of the 1950s to the pure geometry of 'the look' and the styles that proliferated throughout the momentous events of the 1960s.
Designing Information and Organizations with a Positive Lens
Author: Michel Avital
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2007-09
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0762312874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAppreciative Inquiry has touched and affected the life of thousands who apply its principles in a wide range of settings including industry, government, spiritual and not-for-profit organizations. The "Advances in Appreciative Inquiry" series advocates an organizational science that focuses on advancing a scholarship of positive human organizations, positive relationships and positive modalities of change, which promise to be of world benefit for individuals, organizations and communities. The book series is dedicated to building such a discipline through the advancement of Appreciative Inquiry as an approach to organizational inquiry and human development, and through the interdisciplinary articulation of non-deficit theories of positive change processes in human systems. Guided by the ethos of Appreciative Inquiry, the book series supports a relentless inquiry into the true, the good, the better and the possible. It is dedicated to advancing a 'scholarship of the positive' and 'positive scholarship'. The book series aims to facilitate an emergent dialogue within the social sciences and to support innovative and challenging work. This book series is available electronically online.
Tools for the Design Revolution
Author: Harald Gruendl
Publisher: Verlag Niggli
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9783721209037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the complex nature of design - the process and its influence within contemporary society.
The Airplane
Author: John David Anderson
Publisher: AIAA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781563475252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the technical development of the aeroplane, commissioned to celebrate the 100th anniversary of powered flight. In each chronological period covered, the various aspects of the synthesis of aerodynamics, propulsion, flight dynamics, and structure is described and evaluated.
Networks of Design
Author: Jonathan Glynne
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Published: 2010-06
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 1599429063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNetworks of Design maps a new methodological territory in design studies, conceived as a field of interdisciplinary inquiry and practice informed by a range of responses to actor network theory. It brings together a rich body of current work by researchers in the social sciences, technology, material culture, cultural geography, information technology, and systems design, and design theory and history. This collection will be invaluable to students and researchers in many areas of design studies and to design practitioners receptive to new and challenging notions of what constitutes the design process. Over ninety essays are thematically organised to address five aspects of the expanded notions of mediation, agency, and collaboration posited by network theory: Ideas, Things, Technology, Texts, and People. The collection also includes an important new essay on rethinking the concept of design by Bruno Latour, one of the most influential figures in the philosophy and sociology of science and technology and a pioneer of actor network theory, and essays deriving from forum discussions involving designers and designer-makers responsive to actor network theory. Rather than an anthology of previously-published essays, Networks of Design presents work in progress on design theory and its applications. It is the outcome of a live and vigorous debate on the possibilities and actualities offered by actor network led conceptualisations of the relationships and processes constituting design. All the essays, many collaborative, derive from papers presented at the international conference of the Design History Society held at University College Falmouth, UK in the Autumn of 2008.
Studies in Construction History: the proceedings of the Second Construction History Society Conference
Author: James Campbell
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0992875110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe proceedings of second conference of the Construction History Society, which took place on 20 and 21 March 2015 at Queens' College, Cambridge, featuring 28 peer-reviewed papers covering a wide variety of subjects on the theme of construction history.
Design with the Desert
Author: Richard Malloy
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2016-04-19
Total Pages: 623
ISBN-13: 1000218848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTypical development in the American Southwest often resulted in scraping the desert lands of the ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and dependent on a large consumption of energy and natural resources. This transdisciplinary book explores the natural and built environment of this desert region and introduces development tools for shaping its future in a more sustainable way. It offers valuable insights to help promote ecological balance between nature and the built environment in the American Southwest-and in other ecologically fragile regions around the world.
