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Designing things : a critical introduction to the culture of objects / Prasad Boradkar.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2010.Edition: English edDescription: ix, 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 1845204271 (pbk.)
  • 9781845204273 (pbk.)
  • 1845204263
  • 9781845204266
  • 9781845204273:
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.401
Contents:
Theorizing things: disciplinary diversity in thinking about objects -- Valued possessions: the worth of things -- Making things: labor in production -- Producing things: a history of systems of manufacture -- Beautiful things: the aesthetics of surfaces -- The greed imperative: user needs in product design -- Planned obsolescence: unsustainable consumption -- Objects as signs: what do things mean? -- The obsession of possession: fetish objects.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 745.401 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 63316
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 745.401 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 63318

CW707, CW728

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theorizing things: disciplinary diversity in thinking about objects -- Valued possessions: the worth of things -- Making things: labor in production -- Producing things: a history of systems of manufacture -- Beautiful things: the aesthetics of surfaces -- The greed imperative: user needs in product design -- Planned obsolescence: unsustainable consumption -- Objects as signs: what do things mean? -- The obsession of possession: fetish objects.

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