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1: Ghosts in the machine - The first episode of this new series tells the fascinating story of the birth of industrial design. Alongside the celebrated names, from Wedgwood to William Morris, it also explores the work of the anonymous designers responsible for prosaic but classic designs for cast-iron cooking pots to sheep shears - harbingers of a breed of industrially produced objects culminating in the Model T Ford. Includes interviews with legendary designer Dieter Rams and J Mays, Ford Motors' global head of design. 2: Designs for living - the 1920s and 1930s, with the world at the tipping point between two global wars, design suggested dramatically different ideas about the shape of things to come, from the radical futurism of the Bauhaus to the British love affair with mock-Tudor architecture and the three-piece suite. In Europe, the 'modern movement' promoted the virtues of the machine and the machine-made with theories and products like open-plan living, the fitted kitchen and Tubular steel furniture which have become absorbed into the mainstream of the designed world. In the USA, designers like Raymond Loewy and Henry Dreyfuss explored and exploited the dreams and desires of American consumers to develop a market-based approach to design which has become one of the bedrocks of the modern consumer society. Featuring Niels Diffrient and Tom Dyckhoff. 3: Blueprints for war - The Genius of Design examines the Second World War through the prism of the rival war machines designed and built in Germany, Britain, the USSR and the USA, with each casting a fascinating sidelight on the ideological priorities of the nations and regimes which produced them. From the desperate improvisation of the Sten gun, turned out in huge numbers by British toy-makers, to the deadly elegance of the all-wood Mosquito fighter-bomber, described as 'the finest piece of furniture ever made', the stories behind these products reveal how definitions of good design shift dramatically when national Survival is at stake. Featuring desert war veteran Peter Gudgin and designer Michael Graves. 4: Better living through chemistry - The story of design enters the 50s and 60s, when a revolutionary new material called plastic combined with the miracles of electronic miniaturisation to allow designers to offer post-war consumers something new: liberation. Designer Verner Panton pursued the seemingly impossible dream of a chair made from a seamless piece of plastic while Joe Colombo proposed the Austin Powers-style 'cabriolet bed', complete with built-in cigarette lighter and stereo. Meanwhile in Japan, designers at Sony were shrinking radios from pocket-size to palm-size, paving the way for the ultimate in portable lifestyle-the Walkman. But the optimism of the era came to an abrupt end when concerns about the environmental impact of plastic came to the fore. Featuring Sony master designer Teiyu Goto, Alberto Alessi and Stephen Bayley. 5: Objects of desire - Picking up the story of design from the Drab days of the late 70s, the final episode tracks the explosion of wild creativity that defined the 'designer decades' of the 80s and early 90s. By addressing wants rather than needs and allying themselves to the blatant consumerism of 'retail culture' designers emerged from the backrooms to claim a starring role in the shaping of modern life. Designers also played a decisive role in making the world-changing power of computer and digital technology available to the masses through the design of keyboards, the mouse and the 'desktop'. And now, with concerns growing daily about our insatiable appetite for 'stuff', designers are also offering new ideas about sustainable consumption for the future. Featuring Philippe Starck, Marc Newson, Jonathan Ive and Stephen Fry.

Design, general.

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All design is situated -- carried out from an embedded position. Design involves many participants and encompasses a range of interactions and interdependencies among designers, designs, design methods, and users. Design is also multidisciplinary, extending beyond the traditional design professions into such domains as health, culture, education, and transportation. This book presents eighteen situated design methods, offering cases and analyses of projects that range from designing interactive installations, urban spaces, and environmental systems to understanding customer experiences. Each chapter presents a different method, combining theoretical, methodological, and empirical discussions with accounts of actual experiences. The book describes methods for defining and organizing a design project, organizing collaborative processes, creating aesthetic experiences, and incorporating sustainability into processes and projects. The diverse and multidisciplinary methods presented include a problem- and project-based approach to design studies; a "Wheel of Rituals" intended to promote creativity; a pragmatist method for situated experience design that derives from empirical studies of film production and performance design; and ways to transfer design methods in a situated manner. The book will be an important resource for researchers, students, and practitioners of interdisciplinary design.

Industrial design. --- DESIGN/General

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Formen und Strukturen werden als grundlegende Gestaltungsrelationen, insbesondere in Architektur und Produktdesign, untersucht. Die Autorinnen und Autoren aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen gehen der Frage nach, welche Rolle die Geometrie bei Formbildungsprozessen spielt. Traditionell kommt der Geometrie die Aufgabe zu, Formen erfassbar, darstellbar und umsetzbar zu machen, deren Erzeugungsregeln zu untersuchen. Die aktuellen Entwicklungen zeigen die Verwendung immer komplexerer, unregelmäßigerer und scheinbar "ungeometrischer" Formen. Neben geometrischen und topologischen Betrachtungen werden systemtheoretische Überlegungen sowie Prozesse der Morphogenese den Gestaltungen zugrunde gelegt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren thematisieren Bezüge zwischen Form, Struktur und Materialität und wenden sich damit gegen aktuelle Tendenzen einer Beliebigkeit der Gestaltung. Ingenieurwissenschaftliche und künstlerisch-ästhetische Gestaltungsansätze finden zusammen. Die Bedeutung mathematisch-strukturellen und geometrischen Denkens in diesen komplexen Zusammenhängen werden sowohl in historischem Kontext beleuchtet als auch in computerbasierten Arbeitsprozessen in realisierten Beispielen aus der Praxis aufgezeigt. Die Zielgruppen Architektur, Design, Geometrie, Angewandte Mathematik Die Herausgeberin Cornelie Leopold ist Akademische Direktorin an der Technischen Universität Kaiserslautern, Fachbereich Architektur, Fachgebiet Darstellende Geometrie.

Architecture. --- Design. --- Applied mathematics. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Geometry. --- Architecture, general. --- Design, general. --- Applications of Mathematics. --- Geometry.

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A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.

Industrial design. --- Design --- Philosophy. --- DESIGN/General --- COMPUTER SCIENCE/Human Computer Interaction --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Gender Studies

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A guide to the everyday working world of engineers, written by researchers trained in both engineering and sociology.Everyday Engineering was written to help future engineers understand what they are going to be doing in their everyday working lives, so that they can do their work more effectively and with a broader social vision. It will also give sociologists deeper insights into the sociotechnical world of engineering. The book consists of ethnographic studies in which the authors, all trained in both engineering and sociology, go into the field as participant-observers. The sites and types of engineering explored include mechanical design in manufacturing industries, instrument design, software debugging, environmental management within companies, and the implementation of a system for separating household waste.The book is organized in three parts. The first part introduces the complexity of technical practices. The second part enters the social and cultural worlds of designers to grasp their practices and motivations. The third part examines the role of writing practices and graphical representation. The epilogue uses the case studies to raise a series of questions about how objects can be taken into account in sociological analyses of human organizations.

Engineering --- Engineering - General --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Social aspects --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Social aspects. --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General --- DESIGN/General