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The Design of Material, Organism and Minds. Different Understandings of Design.
. Ed(S): Konsorski-Lang, Silke; Hampe, Michael; Lang, Silke
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Hardback. The concepts of design are vaguely defined and ways of approaching them diverge substantially. This book presents various uses of design to support design science as a discipline that integrates the vast amount of isolated knowledge sources. Editor(s): Konsorski-Lang, Silke; Hampe, Michael; Lang, Silke. Series: X. Media Publishing. Num Pages: 300 pages, 100 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 193 x 15. Weight in Grams: 622.
Design is eminent throughout different disciplines of science, engineering, humanities, and art. However, within these disciplines, the way in which the term design is understood and applied differs significantly. There still is a profound lack of interdisciplinary research on this issue. The same term is not even guaranteed to carry the same meaning as soon as one crosses over to other disciplines. Therefore, related synergies between disciplines remain largely unexplored and unexploited.This book will address design in the hope of promoting a deeper understanding of it across various disciplines, and to support Design Science as a discipline, which attempts to ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Series
X. Media Publishing
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540689959
SKU
V9783540689959
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About . Ed(S): Konsorski-Lang, Silke; Hampe, Michael; Lang, Silke
Since March 1st, 2008, Silke Konsorski-Lang has been Institute and Research Coordinator at the Institute for Visual Computing in the Department of Computer Science at the ETH Zurich. Prior to this, she was Managing Director of the Competence Center for Digital Design & Modeling. She earned her PhD degree (Dr.sc.techn.) at the ETH Zurich for her work on the investigation ... Read more
Reviews for The Design of Material, Organism and Minds. Different Understandings of Design.
From the reviews: “This book is a collection of essays on design … . The introduction … clearly outlines the objective of the book and summarizes the main points of each of the eleven chapters that follow. People with a general interest in design … want to look it up as an account of practitioners about their fields of ... Read more