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Designing things : a critical introduction to the culture of objects
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Title
Designing things : a critical introduction to the culture of objects / Prasad Boradkar.
ISBN
9781845204273 (pbk.)
1845204271 (pbk.)
9781845204266 (cloth)
1845204263 (cloth)
Edition
English ed.
Published
Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2010.
Physical Description
ix, 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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