Design Culture: Objects and Approaches

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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.

Guy Julier is Professor of Design Culture at the University of Brighton and the Victoria and Albert Museum, UK. Anders V. Munch is Professor of Design Culture at the University of Southern Denmark. Mads Nygaard Folkmann is Associate Professor of Design Theory, Culture and History at the University of Southern Denmark. Hans-Christian Jensen is Associate Professor of Design Studies, Culture and Management at the University of Southern Denmark. Niels Peter Skou is Lecturer in the History of Ideas and Music at the University of Southern Denmark.

Offers the reader an excellent deep dive into the concepts of design culturing in a very accessible way ... Overall this authoritative book instills a great sense of the many attributes and values of design culture. * The Design Journal * Reinvigorates the study of design by offering an alternative to other cross-disciplinary terms such as 'design studies' or 'design thinking'. * Journal of Design History * This stimulating introduction to the approaches and ideas which inform design culture should do much to promote new ways of thinking about both design and culture, and the dialectic between them. * Pat Kirkham, Professor Emerita at the Bard Graduate Center, USA and Professor of Design History at Kingston University, UK * Design Culture is an essential contribution to the field of design studies. It addresses the ubiquity of the term 'design' from a cross sectional perspective, while introducing a precise, conceptual and methodological focus. * Claudia Mareis, Professor of Design Studies at the Academy of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland * A stimulating, must-read overview of the interdisciplinary debates around Design Culture as a discipline and object of study for all those interested in the phenomenon of Design. * Monica Farkas, Professor of Visual Communication Design at the Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay * Design Culture manages to break through the noise, providing an enlightening view of design as a dominating feature of everyday life. From the influence of Turkish paper doilies to the rise of the global sex toy industry, it gives a multi-layered account of seemingly insignificant designs. Filled as it is with impressive philosophical insights and amusing historical connections, Design Culture offers much to ponder. Indeed, designers, historians as well as many non-specialists will find this book both enriching and enjoyable. * Elizabeth Guffey, Professor of Art and Design History at the State University of New York at Purchase, USA * Designers often claim they seek to "improve or maintain the habitability of the world of their fellow citizen". Design Culture may well be the appropriate theoretical framework I am longing for to better understand and explain what "habitability" is about. * Alain Findeli, Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Montreal, Canada *