This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped industrial and product design. Written by two experts on modern design, it provides both a concise history of the subject, and offers a fascinating resource to dip into for the general reader. From the origins or modern design in the craft movements of the 19th and early 20th century and the changes brought about by mass production, the book traces the most important ideas in design through the modern movement and post-war consumer society to more recent ideas such as Open-Source Design and Biomimicry. Arranged in a broadly chronological order, the ideas are presented through fascinating text and arresting visuals, 100 Ideas that Changed Design explores when each idea first evolved and the subsequent impact it has had up to the present day.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781786273437 20190415

Arnold Schwartzman's stunning photographs of the finest examples of Art Deco from all over the world are collected here as a celebration of one of the world's most popular decorative styles. Art deco is the 20th century's most glamorous architectural style, and the one that shaped popular ideas of modern luxury. With over 200 photographs, this is a visual celebration of this very popular style. Unlike most other books on the subject that tend to be regionally specific, this book highlights Art Deco buildings from all over the world, from Australia to South America, with an emphasis on London, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Miami, and Paris. Art Deco features much careful and exacting detail, and of special interest in this book are photos that zoom in on murals, mosaics, flooring, ironwork, and other ornamental flourishes. Art Deco began in 1925 and quickly swept the globe becoming the style epitomizing Jazz Age glamor and sophistication. It drew from a variety of influences including ancient Egyptian, Moorish, and Mayan motifs but also modernist movements like Cubism, Fauvism, and De Stijl. Its influence was felt everywhere, from the skylines of New York to Shanghai, and it gained prominence not only with architects and designers but enjoyed a passionate following among the public as well.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780847866106 20190415

• Introduction / Claude Courtecuisse et Éric Vandecasteele
• Valeur
• Le souci esthétique de soi en tant qu'autodesign
• D'une imposture l'autre
• Allusions et faux-mouvements
• Les mondanités de l'art : réflexion sur la possibilité d'un design transgressif
• Comment les terra-Étires de l'art sont devenus ceux du design
• Déplacement des objets. Déplacement des regards
• Utopie
• Le goût de l'indistinct
• Bauhaus/Vhutemas. Une histoire parallèle
• La conquête de nouveaux territoires, transfuges et autarcies artistiques
• La promesse d'un ordinaire singulier
• Design : topographie des relations
• Du corps aux objets. Le design comme vecteur d'un imaginaire organique.

"Des utopies d'Arts & Crafts et celles de l'Atelier van Lieshout aux performances d'Issey Miyake, depuis un siècle et demi les liens entre l'art et le design ne cessent pas de se tendre. Le présent ouvrage analyse quelques-unes de leurs convergences, voire de leurs confusions, parmi les plus significatives. Avec les avant-gardes, art et design ont débordé les limites de l'objet. Ils apparaissent désormais tous les deux comme des versions inédites de notre espace commun - aussi bien sa représentation en temps réel que ses lignes de fuite. Le monde tout entier en vient alors à se dérober, recouvert par les images de sa beauté ou de sa cohérence."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction-- Raquel A. G. Reyes.- Japanese Export Lacquer and Global Art History: An Art of Mediation in Circulation-- Thomas DaCosta Kaufman.- Paradise in Stone: Representations of New World Plants and Animals on Spanish Colonial Churches in the Philippines-- Raquel A. G. Reyes.- Betel, tobacco and beverages in Southeast Asia-- William Gervase Clarence-Smith.- Domestic Interiors in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Batavia-- Michael North.
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This Palgrave Pivot explores the social and cultural impact of global trade at a micro-level from around 1600 to 1950. Bringing together the collaborative skills of cultural, social, economic, and art historians, it examines how the diffusion of trade, goods and objects affected people's everyday lives. The authors tell several stories: of the role played by a host of intermediaries - such as apothecaries, artisans and missionaries who facilitated the process; of objects such as Japanese export lacquer-ware and paintings; of how diverse artistic influences came to be expressed in colonial church architecture in the Philippines; of revolutionary changes wrought on quotidian tastes and preferences, as shown in the interior decoration of private homes in the Dutch East Indies; and of transformations in the smoking and drinking habits of Southeast Asians. The chapters consider the conditions from which emerged new forms of artistic production and transfer, fresh cultural interpretations, and expanded markets for goods, objects and images.
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• Section I: Groundwork. Caravans of gold, fragments in time : an introduction / Kathleen Bickford Berzock
• Uncertain fragments : a divination / Chris Abani
• Views from afar : reading medieval trans-Saharan trade through Arabic accounts / Robert Launay
• The sources of gold : narratives, technology, and visual culture from the Mande and Akan worlds / Ralph A. Austen -- Fragments at risk : the protection of cultural heritage in Mali, Morocco, and Nigeria / Mamadi Dembélé, Ahmed Ettahrir, Youssef Khiara, and Yousuf Abdallah Usman.
• Section II: Sites. The Sahara as a cultural zone / Cynthia Becker
• Sijilmasa's role in the African gold trade / Ronald A. Messier and Abdallah Fili
• Essouk-Tadmekka : a southern Saharan center of the early Islamic camel caravan trade / Sam Nixon
• Gao, a middle Niger city in medieval trade / Mamadou Cissé
• Urbanization and trade networks in the inland Niger Delta / Mamadi Dembélé
• Politics and trade in medieval Northern Nigeria / Detlef Gronenborn.
• Section III: Matter in motion. Gold, ivory, and copper, materials and arts of trans-Saharan trade / Sarah M. Guérin
• Dinars as historical texts : documenting the African gold trade / Ron Messier
• Gold processing at the early Islamic market town of Tadmekka, Mali : preliminary results from experimental replication / Gianluca Pastorelli, Marc Walton, and Sam Nixon
• Medieval glass bead production and exchange / Adidemi Babatunde Babalola
• The written word : Islamic literacy and Arabic manuscripts in West Africa / Mauro Nobili.
• Section IV: Reverberations. Red gold : things made of copper, bronze, and brass / Raymond Silverman
• Gnawa material culture : innovation across the Sahara / Cynthia Becker
• Saharan crossing : the realities of migration today / Galya Ben-Arieh
• Bibliography
• Lenders to the exhibition
• Contributors.

How West African gold and trade across the Sahara were central to the medieval world The Sahara Desert was a thriving crossroads of exchange for West Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in the medieval period. Fueling this exchange was West African gold, prized for its purity and used for minting currencies and adorning luxury objects such as jewelry, textiles, and religious objects. Caravans made the arduous journey by camel southward across the Sahara carrying goods for trade "glass vessels and beads, glazed ceramics, copper, books, and foodstuffs, including salt, which was obtained in the middle of the desert. Northward, the journey brought not only gold but also ivory, animal hides and leatherwork, spices, and captives from West Africa forced into slavery. Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time draws on the latest archaeological discoveries and art historical research to construct a compelling look at medieval trans-Saharan exchange and its legacy. Contributors from diverse disciplines present case studies that form a rich portrayal of a distant time. Topics include descriptions of key medieval cities around the Sahara; networks of exchange that contributed to the circulation of gold, copper, and ivory and their associated art forms; and medieval glass bead production in West Africa (TM)s forest region. The volume also reflects on Morocco (TM)s Gnawa material culture, associated with descendants of West African slaves, and movements of people across the Sahara today. Featuring a wealth of color images, this fascinating book demonstrates how the rootedness of place, culture, and tradition is closely tied to the circulation of people, objects, and ideas. These oefragments in time offer irrefutable evidence of the key role that Africa played in medieval history and promote a new understanding of the past and the present. Published in association with the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University Exhibition schedule: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University January 26 "July 21, 2019 Aga Khan Museum, Toronto September 21, 2019 "February 23, 2020 Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC April 8 "November 29, 2020.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780691182681 20190408

• Introducing Design Culture
• Section 1: Developing Design Culture Introduction Design Culturing: Making Design History Matter Kjetil Fallan Taste and Attunement: Design Culture as World Making Ben Highmore Embedding Design in the Organisational Culture: Challenges and Perspectives Alessandro Deserti and Francesca Rizzo Use in Design Culture Toke Riis Ebbesen
• Section 2: Addressing Market and Society Introduction A Brand for Everyone Sara Kristoffersson Buying into the Future: A Case Study of a Danish Brand of Fashionable Children's Clothing Trine Brun Petersen The Glowing Black of fritz-kola. Aestheticisation in Design Culture Mads Nygaard Folkmann
• Section 3: Positioning Design Professions Introduction Design Culture in the Sex Toy Industry: a new phenomenon Judith Glover Working from Home: Fashioning the Professional Designer in Britain Leah Armstrong On the Professional and Everyday Design of Graphic Artifacts Sarah Owens The Fixing I: Repair as Prefigurative Politics Gabriele Oropallo
• Section 4: Locating Design Culture Introduction
• Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed: Relocating Kahler's brand heritage Niels Peter Skou Performing Turkish Design in Products, Collections and Exhibitions: Expanding the Archive, Seeking Depth Harun Kaygan A Theoretical Straddle: Design Culture between National Structures and Transnational Networks Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz and Katarina Serulus The Challenges and Opportunities of introducing Design Culture in Jordan Danah Abdulla Epilogue: Design Culture as Practice Index.
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Design culture foregrounds the relationships between the domains of design practice, design production and everyday life. Unlike design history and design studies, it is primarily concerned with contemporary design objects and the networks between the multiple actors engaged in their shaping, functioning and reproduction. It acknowledges the rise of design as both a key component and a key challenge of the modern world. Featuring an impressive range of international case studies, Design Culture interrogates what this emergent discipline is, its methodologies, its scope and its relationships with other fields of study. The volume's interdisciplinary approach brings fresh thinking to this fast-evolving field of study.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781474289849 20190423

• List of figures List of contributors Foreword Barry Curtis, Royal College of Art, UK Introduction Zoe Hendon and Anne Massey, independent, UK
• Section I: Millennia, Centuries
• 1. Designing stone: temporal representation of a timeless material Seher Erdogan Ford, Temple University, USA
• 2. `The drama of the soul': time, eternity and evolution in the designs of Phoebe Anna Traquair Sally Anne Huxtable, National Museums Scotland, UK
• 3. Time aboard the Ghan: Alice Springs to Adelaide, March
• 2016 Anne Burke, Middlesex University, UK
• Section II: Centuries, Decades, Years
• 4 As good as apple pie? Post-unification Germany and the reception of public art from the former German Democratic Republic Jessica Jenkins, Falmouth University, UK
• 5. The story of a Portuguese cock and other knick-knacks: heritage, propaganda and design in a far-right dictatorship Carlos Bartolo, Universidade Lusiada, Portugal
• 6. An experiment with time: modern and classical influences in the planning of 'high and over' Michael Findlay, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand
• 7. Making `atomic' history: consuming historical narratives in the `unofficial' digital archive Emily Candela, Royal College of Art, UK
• 8. A queer feeling and its future in/for design history John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada
• Section III: Days, Hours, Seconds
• 9. Tube time: How the subterranean city got faster by design David Lawrence, Kingston University and London Transport Museum, UK
• 10. Dreams of The Fun Palace and Plug-In City: architectural modularism and cybernetics in the 1960s Claire McAndrew, University College London, UK
• 11. Sign of the times: slow design in the age of social acceleration Niels Peter Skou, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
• 12. Fast and slow: design and the experience of time Stephen Hayward, Central St Martins, UK
• 13. Delivered in less than sixty seconds: temporal references in the design and discourse of digital reading devices Toke Riis Ebbesen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Select Bibliography Index.
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Design, History and Time reflects on the nature of time in relation to design, in both past and contemporary contexts. In contrast to a traditional design historical approach which emphasises schools and movements, this volume addresses time as a continuum and considers the importance of temporality for design practice and history. Contributors address how designers, design historians and design thinkers might respond to the global challenges of time, the rhythms of work, and the increasing speed of life and communication between different communities. They consider how the past informs the present and the future in terms of design; the importance of time-based design practices such as rapid prototyping and slow design, time in relation to memory and forgetting, and artefacts such as the archive for which time is key, and ponder the design of time itself. Showcasing the work of fifteen design scholars from a range of international contexts, the book provides an essential text for thinking about changing attitudes to the temporal.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781350060654 20190423

• Foreword A Pre- and Post-History of "Teaching the History of Modern Design: The Canon and Beyond" Introduction
• Section 1: Users/Consumers Kul'ttovary : Bringing Culture into the Soviet Home
• Diversionary Tactics at Work: Making Meaning Through Misuse Everything Old is New Again: Modernization, Historic Preservation, and the American Home, 1920-1966
• Section 2: Intermediaries Representing Modern Architecture in The Rockford Files (1974-1980) CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES PUNK PUNK PUNK WOMEN WOMEN WOMEN
• Using Digital Tools to Work Around the Canon
• Section 3: Designers Confronting Racial Stereotypes in Graphic Design History
• The Mangbetu Coiffure: A Story of Cars, Hats, Branding, and Appropriation
• Adventure Play in Physical and Virtual Spaces
• The Case of William Pahlmann: Challenging the Canon of Modern Design "I Was Not a Woman Designer... I Was a Designer Who Happened to Be a Woman"
• Epilogue Beyond the Canon: Building the Case for and Cases for Interdisciplinary Design History
• Notes on Contributors Index.
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Design History Beyond the Canon subverts hierarchies of taste which have dominated traditional narratives of design history. The book explores a diverse selection of objects, spaces and media, ranging from high design to mass-produced and mass-marketed objects, as well as counter-cultural and sub-cultural material. The authors' research highlights the often marginalised role of gender and racial identity in the production and consumption of design, the politics which underpins design practice and the role of designed objects as pathways of nostalgia and cultural memory. While focused primarily on North American examples from the early 20th century onwards, this collection also features essays examining European and Soviet design history, as well as the influence of Asia and Africa on Western design practice. The book is organised in three thematic sections: Consumers, Intermediaries and Designers. The first section analyses a range of designed objects and spaces through the experiences and perspectives of users. The second section considers intermediaries from both technology and cultural industries, as well as the hidden labour within the design process itself. The final section focuses on designers from multiple design disciplines including high fashion, industrial design, interior design, graphic design and design history pedagogy. The essays in all three sections utilise different research methods and a wide range of theoretical approaches, including feminist theory, critical race theory, spatial theory, material culture studies, science and technology studies and art history. Design History Beyond the Canon brings together the most recent research which stretches beyond the traditional canon and looks to interdisciplinary methodologies to better understand the practice and consumption of design.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781350051607 20190325

• Preface Introduction, Anne Marie Willis
• PART 1: THE ESSENCE OF DESIGN
• Introduction
• 1. The Fault of Epimetheus, Bernard Stiegler
• 2. In the Beginning, Tony Fry
• 3. A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design, Bruno Latour
• 4. The Depth of Design, Albert Borgmann
• 5. Design as an Ontological Question, Tony Fry Guide to Further Reading
• PART 2: THE PRACTICE OF DESIGN Introduction
• 6. Science, Art and Practical Wisdom, Aristotle
• 7. The Complication of Praxis, William McNeill
• 8. The Existential Self as Locus of Sustainability in Design, Philippe d'Anjou
• 9. Science of the Concrete, Claude Levi-Strauss
• 10. The Textility of MakingTim Ingold Guide to Further Reading
• PART 3: THE ETHOS OF DESIGN
• Introduction
• 11. Artefacts: the Making Sentient of the External World, Elaine Scarry
• 12. Ethics by Design or the Ethos of Things, Cameron Tonkinwise
• 13. Grievability, Judith Butler
• 14. The One for the Other Adrian Peperrzak
• 15. Ethics in the Making, Bodil Joensson et al Guide to Further Reading
• PART 4: DESIGN AND THE OTHER Introduction
• 16. On Coloniality of Knowledge, Madina V. Tlostanova
• 17. The Enframing Gaze, Timothy Mitchell
• 18. The Violence of Humanitarian Design, Mahmoud Keshavarz
• 19. The Force of Form, the Effect of Genre, Francois Jullien
• 20. Why Not an Alphabet? Lothar Ledderose Guide to Further Reading Guide to Further Reading
• PART 5: BEING DESIGNED AND THINGS Introduction
• 21. The Thing, Martin Heidegger
• 22. Materialism is Not the Solution: On Matter, Form, and Mimesis Graham Harman
• 23. Is Design Finished? Dematerialisation and Changing Things, Cameron Tonkinwise
• 24. Beyond Affordance Michael May
• 25. Understanding, Ontology, Thrownness and Readiness-to-hand, Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores
• 26. Smart meters don't make us any smarter Elizabeth Shove and Sarah Royston
• 27. Matter and Mattering or Why are Things "Us"? Clive Dilnot Guide to Further Reading
• PART 6: THE DESIGNING OF TECHNOLOGY Introduction
• 28. Technology: Instrumental Metaphor and Cybernetic System, Adrian Snodgrass
• 29. The Question Concerning Technology, Martin Heidegger
• 30. Technical Mentality, Simondon
• 31. The Finite Framework of Language, Michael Heim
• 32. `This System Does Not Produce Pleasure Anymore' Bernard Stiegler Guide to Further Reading
• PART 7: THE DESIGNING OF VISUALITY Introduction
• 33. Form and Imitation Plato
• 34. The Plato Effect in Architecture Chistopher N. Henri
• 35. Age of the World Picture, Martin Heidegger
• 36. An Art Which Imitates Art Pierre Bourdieu
• 37. Sign Function and Class Logic Jean Baudrillard
• 38. Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space Guide to Further Reading
• PART 8: DESIGNING AFTER THE END Introduction
• 39. What is the Anthropolitical? Claire Colbrook
• 40. The Intrusion of GAIA Isobel Stengers
• 41. Cosmoecological Sheep Vinciane Despret and Michel Meuret
• 42. Outing Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning with Turing Tests Benjamin H. Bratton
• 43. The Posthuman Rosi Braidotti
• 44. The Sustainment Tony Fry
• 45. Spinoza and Us Gilles Deleuze Guide to Further Reading Bibliography Index.
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What is design philosophy and why is it needed? This important book explains the discipline's recent emergence, the key questions which dominate it, and its potential to fundamentally change the way we practice and think about design. The reader comprises eight thematic sections, each featuring a short, contextualising introduction and an annotated bibliography. It considers social, graphic, product and industrial design, and presents the writings of such leading design thinkers and philosophers as Deleuze and Heidegger, Aristotle and Plato. With texts ranging from philosophically informed writing on design and culture, to ancient and contemporary philosophy which addresses the concept of design, The Design Philosophy Reader is an impressive and pioneering work.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780857853509 20190318

• Part 1: Reality
• 1. As it is
• 2. A Competitive State
• 3. Share Price
• 4. Property
• 5. Branded
• 6. Inversion
• 7. Unbranded
• 8. Reality
• 9. Prestige
• 10. Icarus Falls
• 11. Sellers All
• 12. Waste
• 13. Bypassed
• 14. Fair Game
• 15. What else is on?
• 16. My next fear
• 17. Time closed
• 18. A Moment in the Life of a Reed
• 19. Illusions of forever
• 20. Local?
• 21. Burying Your Dead in the Sand
• 22. Air
• 23. Carbon
• 24. Becoming Human
• 25. Internationalization
• 26. Craft 'n Kitsch
• 27. Modern and Traditional
• 28. Design Think
• 29. Enough
• 30. Damage
• 31. Seeing
• Part 2: Another Reality
• 32. How should we live?
• 33. Moderation
• 34. Legacy
• 35. Ashes of Myopia
• 36. Closest to the Dreaming
• 37. Fragile
• 38. Being Alive
• 39. Nature's Wisdom
• 40. Repeated Patterns
• 41. Profits and People
• 42. Return to Syros
• 43. What reward have ye?
• 44. Atomization
• 45. Lost
• 46. Authenticity
• 47. Change
• 48. Seriously
• 49. New
• 50. The Comb Shop
• 51. Repair
• 52. Resurrection
• 53. Photograph
• 54. The Human Touch
• 55. Perspective
• 56. Art
• 57. Drive
• 58. Elevator
• 59. And more
• 60. Economy
• 61. Beyond Protectionism
• 62. IP
• 63. Commonality and Originality
• 64. Secular Society
• 65. Sacred Time
• 66. Misreading Religion
• 67. A Stultifying Dualism
• 68. Faith
• 69. Rubens' Jesus
• 70. Enculturated Blindness
• 71. A Christmas Story
• 72. Mythic Objects
• 73. Another Reality
• Part 3: A Future Reality
• 74. A Wisdom Economy
• 75. Fair Share
• 76. Design Rhapsody
• 77. Spiritual Renewal
• 78. Cultural Highs and Lows
• 79. Improving Things
• 80. Moving on
• 81. One Manifestation of Wisdom
• 82. Why
• 83. After this?
• 84. A Creative Life
• 85. Delicate, Evanescent Things
• 86. Useless Things
• 87. Dying to Create
• 88. Live
• 89. RAW Design
• 90. Ruination
• 91. Rejuvenation
• 92. Things that Endure
• 93. The Mark Made
• 94. Handmade
• 95. Whittling
• 96. Foraging
• 97. Artefacts
• 98. Life
• 99. Improvisation
• 100. Progressive Design Praxis.
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Design Realities explores a wide range of topics on creativity, design and spiritual well-being. Using critique, rational inquiry and personal reflection, Stuart Walker looks squarely at our contemporary condition, demonstrates how current assumptions and material expectations are becoming untenable and, most importantly, offers constructive new directions that are feasible, spiritually enriching, and hopeful. Comprising short essays, lyrical pieces, photo studies and longer discourses, this book takes us on a highly readable and enjoyable journey through some of the most pressing issues of our time. The innovative, intuitive format makes these topics readily accessible, while providing much food for thought about the changing nature of creativity in today's world. Written by a leading thinker in the field, this highly original book offers readers something to ponder, discuss, contest and build upon.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138580206 20190206

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Wearing (and not wearing) jewellery in the 1920s
• Chapter 2: New Women: The jewellery of Charlotte Perriand and Nancy Cunard
• Chapter 3: Modernism and modernity
• Chapter 4: Representing jewellery: Film and photography
• Chapter 5: Displaying jewellery 1920-1939 Conclusion.
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Why has jewellery and body adornment often been marginalized in studies of modernist art and design? This study explores the relationship between jewellery, modernism and modernity from the `jazz age' to the second world war in order to challenge the view that these portable art forms have only a minor role to play in histories of modernism. From the masterworks of the Parisian jewellery houses to the film and photography of Man Ray, this study seeks to present jewellery in a new light, where issues of representation and display are considered to be as important in the creation of a modern `jewellery culture' as the objects themselves. Drawing on material from museums, archives, contemporary journals, memoirs, literary and theoretical texts, this study shows how the emergence of modern jewellery began to seriously question conventional notions of body adornment.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781501326790 20190114

"Karin Bergöö Larsson (1859-1928) was a mother of eight and wife to Sweden's beloved painter, Carl Larsson. She was herself a well-regarded artist but gave it up when she married, at the request of her husband. Replacing paintbrushes and canvas with needles and cloth, she turned a somewhat ugly cottage into a designer showcase"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• 1. Ways to Well-being for Children Larissa Pople, Saamah Abdallah, Gwyther Rees and Gill Main
• 2. Co-Creating Well-being Experiences with Assisted Living Technologies Nikki Holliday, Darren Awang, Gillian Ward
• 3. Green Space and Urban Greening Benefits for Health and Well-being Across the Life-Course: A Pathway for the Operationalisation of the Green Infrastructure Approach Owen Douglas, Mark Scott, Mick Lennon
• 4. Growing Pathways to Well-being through Community Gardens and Greenspace-- Case studies from Birmingham and the West Midlands, UK Veronica Barry and Chris Blythe
• 5. Biophilia and the Practice of Biophilic Design Elizabeth Freeman Calabrese and Alice Dommert
• 6. `On Empathy' and Well-Being: Orientations and Conversations for the Aspiring Architect Amrit Phull
• 7. Emotional Transition and the Internet World: Implications for Well-being John Sparrow
• 8. The Legal Protection of the Well-being of Future Generations Haydn Davies
• 9. Well-Being Restoration in the Workspace Sukanlaya Sawang and Mirko Guaralda
• 10. Designing for Well-being in Late Stage Dementia Cathy Treadaway, Jac Fennell, David Prytherch, Gail Kenning, Andy Walters
• 11. Alone Together - Documentary Filmmaking and Stories of Well-being in Outdoor Spaces Esther Johnson
• 12. Pathways to Well-being Richard Coles, Sandra Costa, Sharon Watson Index.
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How can we achieve and promote well-being? Drawing on examples from the arts, humanities and design, this book brings together work from a wide range of areas to reveal the unique ways in which different disciplines approach the universal goal of supporting well-being. Pathways to Well-Being in Design recognises that the distinction between academics and practitioners often becomes blurred, where, when working together, a fusion of thoughts and ideas takes place and provides a powerful platform for dialogue. Providing new insights into the approaches and issues associated with promoting well-being, the book's multi-disciplinary coverage invites readers to consider these ideas within the framework of their own work. The book's 12 chapters are authored by academics who are involved in practice or are working with practitioners and features real world case studies which cover a range of situations, circumstances, environments, and social groups. Pathways to Well-Being in Design responds to those wishing to enquire further about well-being, taking the reader through different circumstances to consider approaches, discussing practice and theory, real world and virtual world considerations. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand well-being, including students and professionals in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, design and health sciences.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780815346951 20190204

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Categories
• 3. Components
• 4. Early forms
• 5. Varieties
• 6. Square, rectangular and related grids
• 7. Other polygonal grids
• 8. Circles and circular designs
• 9. Tilings and similar arrangements
• 10. Symmetry
• 11. Compositional grids
• 12. Conclusion
• Appendix (student assignments and exercises).
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In Patterns: Design and Composition, M. A. Hann and I. S. Moxon present guidelines for the original design and composition of regular patterns alongside an understanding of the inherent structures of these patterns. Starting with the compositional elements, Hann and Moxon take the reader through patterns in the environment, early forms of patterns and aspects of classification based on circles, squares, triangles and symmetry. With 250 images sourced from past examples as well as student work, this essential read for design students and researchers demonstrates how simplicity begets complexity in the design and composition of regular patterns.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138285613 20190325