Rethinking design and interiors : human beings in the built environment /
"Rethinking Design and Interiors explores the position of design in relation to our complex and ever-changing world and promotes a deeper knowledge - with input from the arts sciences, and technology - that will support design's integral role in the advancement of humankind in the twenty-f...
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London :
Laurence King Pub.,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Susan S. Szenasy
- Introduction
- The search for shelter: Shelter's human roots; The lost origins of building; Reclaiming the past
- Being: Interior space and the second skin; Extensions of self; The un-universal man; Design for basic human needs (measures of man); Design for well-being
- Inside: The emergence of prevailing sterotypes; The psychology analogy; Empirical knowledge; Designing habitable space
- Design: Toward a new design; Acknowledging design's complex nature; The development of experiential knowledge; Establishing a protocol for phenomenological investigations; The identfication of qualitative design factors
- Epilogue: out from within.