Design Anthropology: Object Culture in the 21st Century - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 3709102332 ISBN 13 : 9783709102336

Editeur : Springer Verlag GmbH, 2010

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Biographie de l'auteur :

Alison J. Clarke received a Masters (RCA) with Distinction in History of Design from the Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1990) and went on to complete a PhD. in Social Anthropology, University College London (2001). She joined the University of Applied Arts Vienna, as a full-professor in 2003 having previously held a senior faculty position in Design History and Material Culture at the Royal College of Art, London. She has supervised students of design and material culture at undergraduate and post-graduate level over a period of twenty years as a Senior Faculty member of the University of Brighton, University of Southampton and Royal College of Art, London. She has held guest-lecturing posts at Chelsea College of Art, Central St. Martins School of Art & Design, University of Arts London and acted as Guest Professor in Design History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 1998 - 2003. Clarke has presented research and lectured internationally at institutions including Parsons School for Design, NYC; National Museum of American History, Washington DC; University of Oxford: University College London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Centre for Consumer Science, Sweden; and Institute of Historical Research, London. She is presently engaged in several research projects including 'Doing Kinship with Pictures and Objects' (WWTF); 'The Victor Papanek Archive and Library' (BMWF); 'Home Interiors in Mass Observation' (AHRC)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

What makes a product iconic? How did IKEA really conquer the home-furnishings market from Sweden to China? Why do design innovators spend more time observing consumers than making new things? Design Anthropology charts the radical turn to the user that has transformed our contemporary object culture. Featuring leading design thinkers, Design Anthropology offers a provocative insight into how different groups, from South London urbanites to Australian aborigines, use designed objects to make sense of their everyday lives. As design corporations go native they now look to us our homes, our spiritual worlds and our intimate rituals, for their inspiration. Design Anthropology is a must-have read for everyone in design, creative industries, sociology, anthropology, marketing and cultural studies and for anyone interested in what is really at stake in our material world.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Springer Verlag GmbH
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3709102332
• ISBN 13: 9783709102336
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256