Design By Accident

Author : Alexandra Midal
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Design
ISBN : 9783956795978

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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 : 41,8 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 : C. Hood,D. K. C. Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Rosemary Sassoon
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : James Francis O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Art
ISBN : LCCN:gb70003084

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Design by Accident by James Francis O'Brien Pdf

Author : Robert Martin,Cesare Frepoli
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Edward Eigen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Cammy Bean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Blended Learning
ISBN : 1560000007

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The Accidental Instructional Designer: Learning Design for the Digital Age by Cammy Bean Pdf

Author : Judy L. Agnew,Aubrey C. Daniels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Erik Hollnagel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781351955935

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Barriers and Accident Prevention by Erik Hollnagel Pdf

Accidents are preventable, but only if they are correctly described and understood. Since the mid-1980s accidents have come to be seen as the consequence of complex interactions rather than simple threads of causes and effects. Yet progress in accident models has not been matched by advances in methods. The author's work in several fields (aviation, power production, traffic safety, healthcare) made it clear that there is a practical need for constructive methods and this book presents the experiences and the state-of-the-art. The focus of the book is on accident prevention rather than accident analysis and unlike other books, has a proactive rather than reactive approach. The emphasis on design rather than analysis is a trend also found in other fields. Features of the book include: -A classification of barrier functions and barrier systems that will enable the reader to appreciate the diversity of barriers and to make informed decisions for system changes. -A perspective on how the understanding of accidents (the accident model) largely determines how the analysis is done and what can be achieved. The book critically assesses three types of accident models (sequential, epidemiological, systemic) and compares their strengths and weaknesses. -A specific accident model that captures the full complexity of systemic accidents. One consequence is that accidents can be prevented through a combination of performance monitoring and barrier functions, rather than through the elimination or encapsulation of causes. -A clearly described methodology for barrier analysis and accident prevention. Written in an accessible style, Barriers and Accident Prevention is designed to provide a stimulating and practical guide for industry professionals familiar with the general ideas of accidents and human error. The book is directed at those involved with accident analysis and system safety, such as managers of safety departments, risk and safety consultants, human factors professionals, and accident investigators. It is applicable to all major application areas such as aviation, ground transportation, maritime, process industries, healthcare and hospitals, communication systems, and service providers.

Author : Neil Arason
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Steven Belletto
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199826889

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No Accident, Comrade by Steven Belletto Pdf

Presents an examination of American novels and nonfiction texts, published between 1947 and 2005, that looks at the concept of chance and how it was denied in the Soviet Union.

Author : Rosemary Rawlins
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781629141466

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Learning by Accident by Rosemary Rawlins Pdf

On a sunny spring day, in an ordinary suburban kitchen, the phone rings. There’s been an accident. In one heartbeat, a family’s life is changed forever. After her husband, Hugh, is hit by a car while riding his bicycle, Rosemary Rawlins is plunged into twelve months of marathon caregiving, without the promise of a positive outcome. She works herself to the point of exhaustion to bring her grievously injured husband—who suffered a traumatic brain injury, necessitating the removal of half his skull—back home and back to himself. Then, as he slowly begins to reclaim his life, Rosemary falls apart. She can't sleep. Her heart pounds. Her joy and trust in the world dissolve into endless anxiety. She lays awake at night wondering how her marriage will survive. Will she ever be able to relate to Hugh again? What will become of their relationship? Their children? Do they recognize each other—literally—as the people they fell in love with and married decades ago? How can she let go of her fears? And what can she learn from them? Learning by Accident is a caregiver's story of ambiguous loss, family love, and emotional healing. This compelling personal account demonstrates with heart and humor that what we fear can be more debilitating than any physical injury. And that sometimes starting over is exactly what we need.

Author : David L. Sills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429724411

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Accident At Three Mile Island by David L. Sills Pdf

The nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in March 1979 was as much a social-systems failure as it was an engineering failure. It raised questions not only about the regulation and management of nuclear-power plants but also about the effects of nuclear accidents on the community, on society, and on the total controversy surrounding nuclear energy. Questions were also raised about public perceptions of the risks of high technology. At the request of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island (the Kemeny Commission), the Social Science Research Council commissioned social scientists to write a series of papers on the human dimensions of the event. This volume includes those papers, in revised and expanded form, and a comprehensive bibliography of published and unpublished social science research on the accident and its aftermath.