From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question
of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative
fields. Expanding utility to embrace people's everyday experience
brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is
nothing new. As the essays assembled in this collection show,
interest in the elusive realm of the user was an essential part of
architecture and design throughout the twentieth century. Use
Matters is the first to assemble this alternative history, from the
bathroom to the city, from ergonomics to cybernetics, and from
Algeria to East Germany. It argues that the user is not a universal
but a historically constructed category of twentieth-century
modernity that continues to inform architectural practice and
thinking in often unacknowledged ways.
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