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Whiteley, N: Design for Society

By Nigel Whiteley

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Whiteley, N: Design for Society

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Although design has become eminently newsworthy among the general public in our society, there is very little understanding to be found of the values and implications that underlie it. Design generates much heat but little light: we live in a world that has much design "consciousness," but little design "awareness." Nigel Whiteley analyses design's role and status today, and discusses what our obsession with it tells us about our own culture. "Design for Society" is not an anti-design book; rather, it is an anti-consumerist-design book, in that it reveals what most people would agree are the socially and ecologically unsound values and unsatisfactory implications on which the system of consumerist design is constructed. In so doing, it prepares the ground for a more responsible and just type of design.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
182
Release Date:
1997-10-01
Publication Date:
1997-10-01
Publisher:
Reaktion Books
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0948462655
ISBN13:
9780948462658
Weight:
413 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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