Utility Reassessed: The Role of Ethics in the Practice of Design - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719052777 ISBN 13 : 9780719052774

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 1999

Synopsis

This collection of essays both defines and reassesses the concept of utility. In considering the place of ethics in the recent history of art and design, the text offers a way into the issues which concern design decision-makers today.The text presents topics such as the investigation in to hitherto undiscovered designs for a utility vehicle, it gives a perspective on the philosophy behind the concept of utility as a design theory and offers a critique of the dangers of "good design". The text approaches the subject as a continuing history that has attempted to improve the human condition, through a process of rational thought in the construction of the material world. Using the history of Utility as a design theory, the text suggests ways in which the past can teach us something of the present, and reveals why, on the cusp of the new millennium, Utility is important.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719052777
• ISBN 13: 9780719052774
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Attfield Judy
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• Personne responsable: non disponible