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Designing things : a critical introduction to the culture of objects /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boradkar, Prasad
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2010.
Edition:English ed.
Subjects:
Design > Philosophy.
Design > Social aspects.
Consumer goods > Social aspects.
Consumer goods > Psychological aspects.
Table of 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.