Philosophy And Design

Author : Glenn Parsons
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509502196

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The Philosophy of Design by Glenn Parsons Pdf

The Philosophy of Design is an introduction to the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the contemporary practice of design. The first book to systematically examine design from the perspective of contemporary philosophy, it offers a broad perspective, ranging across key philosophical areas such as aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics and ethics. The first part of the book explores central issues about the nature of design and its products, and the rationality of design methods. A central theme is that Modernist ideas, such as those offered by Loos and Gropius, provide important responses to these philosophical issues. In the second part of the book, these Modernist ideas serve as touchstones in the exploration of key issues for design, including: the place of aesthetics in design; design's relation to personal expression; the meaning of function; and design's relation to consumerism. The social responsibility of designers, and the impact of design practice on ethical reasoning are also discussed. Written in an accessible style, The Philosophy of Design presents a new perspective on design and a provocative reassessment of the Modernist legacy. It will engage students and designers with current philosophical debates, helping them to bring into clearer focus the meaning of contemporary design, and its unique challenges and possibilities.

Author : John Ousterhout
Publisher : Yaknyam Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732102201

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A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout Pdf

Author : Pieter E. Vermaas,P.A. Kroes,Andrew Light,Steven Moore
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402065910

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Philosophy and Design by Pieter E. Vermaas,P.A. Kroes,Andrew Light,Steven Moore Pdf

This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture. It contains twenty-five essays that focus on engineering designing in its traditional sense, on designing in novel engineering domains, and on architectural and environmental designing. This volume enables the reader to overcome the traditional separation between engineering designing and architectural designing.

Author : Jason F. McLennan
Publisher : Ecotone Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0974903302

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The Philosophy of Sustainable Design by Jason F. McLennan Pdf

The author outlines the major ideas and issues that have emerged in the growing movement of green architecture and sustainable design over the last thirty years. The book asks individuals to understand how the philosophy of sustainable design can affect their own work.

Author : Stanley Abercrombie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429982293

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A Philosophy Of Interior Design by Stanley Abercrombie Pdf

This book explores and explains the fundamentals of interior design. Because it does not emphasize current trends and fashion, its value will be long lasting.

Author : Vilém Flusser
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780232362

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Shape of Things by Vilém Flusser Pdf

This book presents for the first time in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher Vilém Flusser. It puts forward the view that our future depends on design. In a series of insightful essays on such ordinary "things" as wheels, carpets, pots, umbrellas and tents, Flusser emphasizes the interrelationships between art and science, theology and technology, and archaeology and architecture. Just as formal creativity has produced both weapons of destruction and great works of art, Flusser believed that the shape of things (and the designs behind them) represents both a threat and an opportunity for designers of the future.

Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192570260

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The Logic of Information by Luciano Floridi Pdf

Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. His starting point is that reality provides the data, to be understood as constraining affordances, and we transform them into information, like semantic engines. Such transformation or repurposing is not equivalent to portraying, or picturing, or photographing, or photocopying anything. It is more like cooking: the dish does not represent the ingredients, it uses them to make something else out of them, yet the reality of the dish and its properties hugely depend on the reality and the properties of the ingredients. Models are not representations understood as pictures, but interpretations understood as data elaborations, of systems. Thus, Luciano Floridi articulates and defends the thesis that knowledge is design and philosophy is the ultimate form of conceptual design. Although entirely independent of Floridi's previous books, The Philosophy of Information (OUP 2011) and The Ethics of Information (OUP 2013), The Logic of Information both complements the existing volumes and presents new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.

Author : Stuart Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000245950

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Design and Spirituality by Stuart Walker Pdf

Design and Spirituality examines the philosophical context of our current situation and its implications for design. It explores how modernity and our constricted notions of progress have contributed to today’s crisis of values, and argues for a re-establishment and re-affirmation of self-transcending priorities, together with an ethos of moderation and sufficiency. A wide range of topics are covered, including material culture and spiritual teachings; sustainability and the spiritual perspective; traditional and indigenous knowledge; technology and spirituality; notions of meaningful design; and how particular material things can have deeper, symbolic significance. There are also reflections on areas such as the language of design; busyness and its relationship to wisdom; design and social disparity; and traditional sacred practices. While not avoiding issues that are controversial, and sometimes hard-hitting, Design and Spirituality gets to the heart of the key issues affecting us today and presents them in a highly readable and accessible format. The author is a leading thinker in the field and he presents his arguments in a manner that invites the reader to reflect and think about where we are going, why we are going there and what really matters. Podcasts https://www.jesuit.ie/podcasts/the-spiritual-dimension-of-design/ https://newbooksnetwork.com/design-and-spirituality

Author : Keith Burgun
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466554214

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Game Design Theory by Keith Burgun Pdf

Despite the proliferation of video games in the twenty-first century, the theory of game design is largely underdeveloped, leaving designers on their own to understand what games really are. Helping you produce better games, Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games presents a bold new path for analyzing and designing games. The author offers a radical yet reasoned way of thinking about games and provides a holistic solution to understanding the difference between games and other types of interactive systems. He clearly details the definitions, concepts, and methods that form the fundamentals of this philosophy. He also uses the philosophy to analyze the history of games and modern trends as well as to design games. Providing a robust, useful philosophy for game design, this book gives you real answers about what games are and how they work. Through this paradigm, you will be better equipped to create fun games.

Author : Eric Karjaluoto
Publisher : New Riders
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780133438949

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The Design Method by Eric Karjaluoto Pdf

Feeling uninspired? That shouldn’t keep you from creating great design work. Design is not about luck, inspiration, or personal expression. Design is a disciplined pursuit aimed at producing sensible, functional work for clients. In The Design Method, you’ll learn how to create quality design work on a regular basis that consistently pleases your clients using the same method that Creative Director Eric Karjaluoto uses at his creative agency, smashLAB. The Design Method will teach you a proven, repeatable process for solving visual communication problems. In this book, you will learn: - Ways to conduct research and gain insight into your clients’ situations - A process for establishing strategies and plans for your projects - How to develop a cohesive concept and visual direction for each client/job - An iterative approach to prototype, test, refine, and produce effective design - Techniques for presenting and documenting creative work - Tips for making your design studio operate efficiently and consistently

Author : Eben Hewitt
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781492045908

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Semantic Software Design by Eben Hewitt Pdf

With this practical book, architects, CTOs, and CIOs will learn a set of patterns for the practice of architecture, including analysis, documentation, and communication. Author Eben Hewitt shows you how to create holistic and thoughtful technology plans, communicate them clearly, lead people toward the vision, and become a great architect or Chief Architect. This book covers each key aspect of architecture comprehensively, including how to incorporate business architecture, information architecture, data architecture, application (software) architecture together to have the best chance for the system’s success. Get a practical set of proven architecture practices focused on shipping great products using architecture Learn how architecture works effectively with development teams, management, and product management teams through the value chain Find updated special coverage on machine learning architecture Get usable templates to start incorporating into your teams immediately Incorporate business architecture, information architecture, data architecture, and application (software) architecture together

Author : Tony Fry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350089549

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Defuturing by Tony Fry Pdf

“Once one understands the nature and magnitude of defuturing as the negation of world futures, how one has to account for the history and making of the material world – including design - dramatically changes. Defuturing as our condition forces the generation of a new philosophy of design.” With these thoughts this book presents a radically new understanding of the history, context and futures of designing. First published in 1999, now reissued with a new preface by the author, Defuturing: A New Design Philosophy is a prescient and powerful account of what it means to comprehend that we live in world that is taking away futures for ourselves and non-human others. Arguing that designing is doubly implicated in this process, first in its roles in helping to create the unsustainable, but second, re-thought through the lens of defuturing, as a mode of acting in the world that can help contest the negation of the world, Defuturing transforms our comprehension of designing and of how futures can be constituted. Working not through abstract theorizing but through the analysis of concrete examples, the book uses historical material on design to expose the archaeology of defuturing. Shattering the illusion that the future simply “is”, Defuturing confronts designing with the challenge of remaking while offering the elements of a new practical reasoning of design acting.

Author : Anne-Marie Willis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780857853509

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The Design Philosophy Reader by Anne-Marie Willis Pdf

Design Philosophy is becoming increasingly important as the nature of design practice and design education change. The Design Philosophy Reader presents and explains the recent emergence of Design Philosophy, illustrates the main concerns of Design Philosophy and demonstrates why Design Philosophy has emerged in recent years, why it is needed, what it can do, how it can be done and where it is going. Comprised of an eight thematic sections, each with a short introduction, to contextualise theory and highlight its implications, and annotated bibliographies, the Reader presents both an argument for the need for Design Philosophy and an overview of its emergence. With texts ranging from writing on design that is informed by philosophy; philosophically informed writing on culture, relevant to the thinking of design; ancient and contemporary philosophy that directly, or by implication, addresses design; and exegesis and commentary on philosophical texts relevant to design.

Author : Alexander M. Novikov,Dmitry A. Novikov
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135019693

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Research Methodology by Alexander M. Novikov,Dmitry A. Novikov Pdf

Research Methodology: From Philosophy of Science to Research Design distinguishes itself from many other works devoted to research methodology and the philosophy of science in its integrated approach towards scientific research, which is regarded as the scientific project on all levels from philosophy of science to research design. This work studie

Author : John Haugeland
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262581531

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Mind Design II by John Haugeland Pdf

Mind design is the endeavor to understand mind (thinking, intellect) in terms of its design (how it is built, how it works). Unlike traditional empirical psychology, it is more oriented toward the "how" than the "what." An experiment in mind design is more likely to be an attempt to build something and make it work—as in artificial intelligence—than to observe or analyze what already exists. Mind design is psychology by reverse engineering. When Mind Design was first published in 1981, it became a classic in the then-nascent fields of cognitive science and AI. This second edition retains four landmark essays from the first, adding to them one earlier milestone (Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence") and eleven more recent articles about connectionism, dynamical systems, and symbolic versus nonsymbolic models. The contributors are divided about evenly between philosophers and scientists. Yet all are "philosophical" in that they address fundamental issues and concepts; and all are "scientific" in that they are technically sophisticated and concerned with concrete empirical research. Contributors Rodney A. Brooks, Paul M. Churchland, Andy Clark, Daniel C. Dennett, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Jerry A. Fodor, Joseph Garon, John Haugeland, Marvin Minsky, Allen Newell, Zenon W. Pylyshyn, William Ramsey, Jay F. Rosenberg, David E. Rumelhart, John R. Searle, Herbert A. Simon, Paul Smolensky, Stephen Stich, A.M. Turing, Timothy van Gelder