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Discovering design : explorations in design studies / edited by Richard Buchanan and Victor Margolin. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995. - xxvi, 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ; pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references.

[PART 1 Shaping the subject] Art and technology aesthetics redefined / Gianfranco Zaccai -- The depth of design / Albert Borgmann -- Rhetoric, humanism, and design / Richard Buchanan. [PART 2 The world of action] "Discovering design" means [re]-discovering users and projects / Augusto Morello -- Designing self-diagnostic, self-cure, self-enhancing, and self-fashioning devices / Tufan Orel -- Discovering design ability / Nigel Cross -- The product milieu and social action / Victor Margolin -- Political ergonomics / Langdon Winner. [PART 3 Values and responsibilities] Ethics into design / Carl Mitcham -- Sacred design I : a re-creational theory / Tony Fry -- Prometheus of the everyday :the ecology of the artificial and the designer's responsibility / Ezio Manzini.

ISBN: 0226078140 (cloth : acidfree paper) 0226078159 (paper : acid-free paper) 9780226078144

LCCN: 94027479

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Design, Industrial--Social aspects
Engineering design--Social aspects
Industrial design--Social aspects
Cultural studies
Industrial / commercial art & design

Dewey Class. No.: 745.2