Accident And Design

Author : Alexandra Midal
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Design
ISBN : 9783956791437

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Design by Accident by Alexandra Midal Pdf

A counterhistory and new historiography of design. In Design by Accident, Alexandra Midal declares the autonomy of design, in and on its own terms. This meticulously researched work proposes not only a counterhistory but a new historiography of design, shedding light on overlooked historical landmarks and figures while reevaluating the legacies of design's established luminaries from the nineteenth century to the present. Midal rejects both linear narratives of progress and the long-held perception of design as a footnote to the histories of fine art and architecture. By weaving critical analysis of the canon of design history and theory together, with special attention to the writings of designers themselves, she draws out the nuances and radical potentials of the discipline—from William Morris's ambivalence toward industry, to Catharine Beecher's proto-feminist household appliances, to the Bauhaus's Expressionist origins, and the influence of Herbert Marcuse on Joe Colombo.

Author : C. Hood,D. K. C. Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135362621

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Accident And Design by C. Hood,D. K. C. Jones Pdf

An examination of different theoretical, methodological and practical approaches towards the management of risk. Seven dimensions of the debate are identified, and the case for each position is put forward, the whole discussion being set in context and perspective. This volume attempts to identify and juxtapose the contested doctrines and underlying assumptions in the field of risk management.

Author : Alexandra Midal
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Design
ISBN : 9783956795978

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Design by Accident by Alexandra Midal Pdf

A counterhistory and new historiography of design. In Design by Accident, Alexandra Midal declares the autonomy of design, in and on its own terms. This meticulously researched work proposes not only a counterhistory but a new historiography of design, shedding light on overlooked historical landmarks and figures while reevaluating the legacies of design's established luminaries from the nineteenth century to the present. Midal rejects both linear narratives of progress and the long-held perception of design as a footnote to the histories of fine art and architecture. By weaving critical analysis of the canon of design history and theory together, with special attention to the writings of designers themselves, she draws out the nuances and radical potentials of the discipline—from William Morris's ambivalence toward industry, to Catharine Beecher's proto-feminist household appliances, to the Bauhaus's Expressionist origins, and the influence of Herbert Marcuse on Joe Colombo.

Author : James Francis O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015006726643

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Design by Accident by James Francis O'Brien Pdf

"This original Dover publication illustrates dozens of accidental effects discovered by a commercial artist in the course of his work. Some are the result of bringing together materials that react with each other, some the result of applying pigment in uncommon ways. The text describes how you can create similar accidental designs yourself with only basic art materials. Nine areas of "accident" are described and illustrated: tree forms created by the movement of pigments or liquids ; crackle patterns resulting from stress in layers of glue, paint, India ink, or graphite ; crawl patterns as coats of paint over irregular or incompatible surfaces unevenly ; random patterns of drips, drops, or dribbles ; splashes and runs created by vigorous impact and gravity ; marble effects created by pulling paper or canvas through paint which is floating on water ; wrinkle lines and folds in a variety of materials ; flower patterns formed when pigments are dropped on non-absorbent surfaces ; and a miscellany--27 plates that shoe patterns emerging from ink flowing along wrinkled paper, scorch marks from a kerosene flame, waves in water-filled baking pan, and similar material. Eight color plates suggest some of the variations possible with colored pigments or crayons, and 55 other figures show natural "accidents" such as dried stream bed, ceramic crackle, beach pebbles, dirty water runs on glass etc."--back cover.

Author : Rosemary Sassoon
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783208678

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By Accident or Design by Rosemary Sassoon Pdf

In this reflective autobiography, Rosemary Sassoon, a leading expert on handwriting and typography, looks back on her long and varied career, paying special attention to her unorthodox progression through a variety of fields. She details the route that took her from design to the educational and medical aspects of handwriting problems, then on to research and a PhD and finally to working in the area of legibility in type design. In telling the story of an unusual and unusually successful life, Sassoon takes up a number of philosophical questions about what it is that comes together to form our characters, and what role chance and coincidence play in our lives.

Author : Carol Rivett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:150679983

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Accident by Design by Carol Rivett Pdf

Author : James Francis O'Brien
Publisher : Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1970-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0844626732

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How to Design by Accident by James Francis O'Brien Pdf

Author : Neil Arason
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781554589654

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No Accident by Neil Arason Pdf

It is possible to eliminate death and serious injury from Canada’s roads. In other jurisdictions, the European Union, centres in the United States, and at least one automotive company aim to achieve comparable results as early as 2020. In Canada, though, citizens must turn their thinking on its head and make road safety a national priority. Since the motor vehicle first went into mass production, the driver has taken most of the blame for its failures. In a world where each person’s safety is dependent on a system in which millions of drivers must drive perfectly over billions of hours behind the wheel, failure on a massive scale has been the result. When we neglect the central role of the motor vehicle as a dangerous consumer product, the result is one of the largest human-made means for physically assaulting human beings. It is time for Canadians to embrace internationally recognized ways of thinking and enter an era in which the motor vehicle by-product of human carnage is relegated to history. No Accident examines problems related to road safety and makes recommendations for the way forward. Topics include types of drivers; human-related driving errors related to fatigue, speed, alcohol, and distraction and roads; pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit; road engineering; motor vehicle regulation; auto safety design; and collision-avoidance technologies such as radar and camera-based sensors on vehicles that prevent crashes. This multi-disciplinary study demystifies the world of road safety and provides a road map for the next twenty years.

Author : Edward Eigen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262534840

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On Accident by Edward Eigen Pdf

Engaging essays that roam across uncertain territory, in search of sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, plagiarized tabernacles, and other phenomena missing from architectural history. This collection by “architectural history's most beguiling essayist” (as Reinhold Martin calls the author in the book's foreword) illuminates the unfamiliar, the arcane, the obscure—phenomena largely missing from architectural and landscape history. These essays by Edward Eigen do not walk in a straight line, but roam across uncertain territory, discovering sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, unvisited shores, plagiarized tabernacles. Taken together, these texts offer a group portrait of how certain things fall apart. We read about the statistical investigation of lightning strikes in France by the author-astronomer Camille Flammarion, which leads Eigen to reflect also on Foucault, Hamlet, and the role of the anecdote in architectural history. We learn about, among other things, Olmsted's role in transforming landscape gardening into landscape architecture; the connections among hedging, hedge funds, the High Line, and GPS bandwidth; timber-frame roofs and (spider) web-based learning; the archives of the Houses of Parliament through flood and fire; and what the 1898 disappearance and reappearance of the Trenton, New Jersey architect William W. Slack might tell us about the conflict between “the migratory impulse” and “love of home.” Eigen compares his essays to the “gathering up of seeds that fell by the wayside.” The seedlings that result create in the reader's imagination a dazzling display of the particular, the contingent, the incidental, and the singular, all in search of a narrative.

Author : James Francis O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Art
ISBN : LCCN:gb70003084

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Design by Accident by James Francis O'Brien Pdf

Author : Paul Fyfe
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191046230

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By Accident or Design by Paul Fyfe Pdf

'On the banks of the Thames it is a tremendous chapter of accidents'. As Henry James surveys London in 1888, he sums up what had fascinated urban observers for a century: the random and even accidental development of this unprecedented form of human settlement, the modern metropolis. By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis takes James at his word, arguing that accident was both a powerful metaphor and material context through which the Victorians arrested the paradoxes of metropolitan modernity and reconfigured understandings of form and change. Paul Fyfe shows how the material conditions of urban accidents offer new and compelling modes of analysis for intellectual and literary history. Through extensive archival study and interdisciplinary analysis of urban-industrial accidents, risk management, and civic improvements, By Accident or Design reclaims the metropolis as ground zero for some of the most important thinking about causation in the nineteenth century. It demonstrates the centrality of interdependent concepts of design and accident not only to metropolitan discourse, but also to current critical discourse about the formal and circulatory dynamics of Victorian metropolitan writing. Thus, this book offers a new vocabulary for the dialectics of the modern city and the signature forms of writing about it, including the newspaper, the illustrated periodical, the industrial novel, and urban broadsheets.

Author : C. Hood,D. K. C. Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135362614

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Accident And Design by C. Hood,D. K. C. Jones Pdf

An examination of different theoretical, methodological and practical approaches towards the management of risk. Seven dimensions of the debate are identified, and the case for each position is put forward, the whole discussion being set in context and perspective. This volume attempts to identify and juxtapose the contested doctrines and underlying assumptions in the field of risk management.

Author : Robert Martin,Cesare Frepoli
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789813275676

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Design-basis Accident Analysis Methods For Light-water Nuclear Power Plants by Robert Martin,Cesare Frepoli Pdf

This book captures the principles of safety evaluation as practiced in the regulated light-water reactor nuclear industry, as established and stabilized over the last 30 years. It is expected to serve both the current industry and those planning for the future. The work's coverage of the subject matter is the broadest to date, including not only the common topics of modeling and simulation, but also methods supporting the basis for the underlying assumptions, the extension to radiological safety, what to expect in a licensing review, historical perspectives and the implication for new designs.This text is an essential resource for practitioners and students, on the current best-practices in nuclear power plant safety and their basis. Contributors of this work are subject matter experts in their specialties, much of which was nurtured and inspired by Prof. Larry Hochreiter, a prominent nuclear safety pioneer.Related Link(s)

Author : Judy L. Agnew,Aubrey C. Daniels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Industrial safety
ISBN : 0937100188

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Safe by Accident? by Judy L. Agnew,Aubrey C. Daniels Pdf

This book takes a scientific look at safety leadership. Part one is an analysis of seven safety leadership practices that don¿t work and what to do instead. Part two presents a model for effective safety leadership and culture change.

Author : E. C. R. Lorac
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23T14:05:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774644935

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Accident by Design by E. C. R. Lorac Pdf

Accident by Design was honestly a really well done classic British mystery. I was surprised, expecting something subpar and generic. It was well-written, with interesting characters and some great descriptions of the British countryside and the work done on a tenant farm. The story is about a family estate in the early '50s. The patriarch lies in bed near death, but still quite aware. His eldest son is a feckless alchoholic with a middle-class (bad), Australian (worse) wife who hates pretty much everyone his father employed and has threatened to make a clean sweep when he takes over. When they both die in a car accident, too many people benefit and this alerts the local constabulary (who are very well depicted in the best British tradition of the no-nonsense, practical, reasonable police force). When their surviving son dies a few days later, by seemingly eating some poisonous berries, the game is truly afoot.