Since the 1990s, in response to dramatic transformations in the
worlds of technology and the economy, design - a once relatively
definable discipline, complete with a set of subdisciplines - has
become unrecognizable. Consequently, design scholars have begun to
address new issues, themes and sub-disciplines such as: sustainable
design, design for well-being, empathic design, design activism,
design anthropology, and many more. The Routledge Companion to
Design Studies charts this new expanded spectrum and embraces the
wide range of scholarship relating to design - theoretical,
practice-related and historical - that has emerged over the past
four decades. Comprising forty-three newly commissioned chapters,
the Companion is organized into the following six sections:
Defining design: discipline, process Defining design: objects,
spaces Designing identities: gender, sexuality, age, nation
Designing society: empathy, responsibility, consumption, the
everyday Design and politics: activism, intervention, regulation
Designing the world: globalization, transnationalism, translation.
Contributors include both established and emerging scholars and the
chapters offer an international scope, covering work emanating
from, and relating to, design in the United Kingdom, mainland
Europe, North America, Asia, Australasia and Africa. This
comprehensive collection makes an original and significant
contribution to the field of Design Studies.
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