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visual representations, visual culture, and computer graphics in design engineering
The role of representation in the production of technoscientific knowledge has become a subject of great interest in recent years. In this book, sociologist and art critic Kathryn Henderson offers a new perspective on this topic by exploring the impact of computer graphic systems on the visual culture of engineering design. Henderson shows how designers use drawings both to organize work and knowledge and to recruit and organize resources, political support, and power.
1. Introduction -- 2. Coding and Claiming: Codification and the Rise of Engineering as a Profession -- 3. The Visual Culture of Engineers: Drawing, Seeing, and Standardizing Perception -- 4. The Yellow Brick Road to Production: Development of a Turbine Engine Package -- 5. The Political Career of a Prototype: Development of a Precision Medical Instrument -- 6. Computer Graphics in Design Engineering: How and Why Changes in Visual Culture Cause Restructuring -- 7. Mixed-Use Practices: Combining the Electronic World and the Paper World -- 8. The Aura of "High Tech" in a World of Messy Practice: Standardization, Mystification, and Glamour -- 9. The Power of Visual Representations: Mixed Practices, Multivisual Competencies, and Meta-indexicals.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index.