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Doing Research in Design presents new ways of thinking about the
relationship between design and research by positioning design as a
social as well as a material practice. This approach emphasises the
social consequences of design decisions as well as the importance
of the efficient functioning of a design. Doing Research in Design
argues that design promotes social change and that, in order to
understand that change, designers must turn to social science
research methods. The book outlines the relationships between
thinking and doing in design - and makes explicit links between
design, research, philosophy and sociology - and then examines four
central social research methodologies in practice. The aim of Doing
Research in Design is to provide anyone involved in the field of
design with the knowledge and understanding of the best methods to
plan and conduct their research.
This book examines three overarching themes: Chinese modernity's
(sometimes ambivalent) relationship to tradition at the start of
the twentieth century, the processes of economic reform started in
the 1980s and their importance to both the eradication and rescue
of traditional practices, and the ideological issue of
cosmopolitanism and how it frames the older academic generation's
attitudes to globalisation. It is important to grasp the importance
of these points as they have been an important part of the
discourse surrounding contemporary Chinese visual culture. As
readers progress through this book, it will become clear that the
debates surrounding visual culture are not purely based on
aesthetics--an understanding of the ideological issues surrounding
the appearance of things as well as an understanding of the social
circumstances that result in the making of traditional artifacts
are as important as the way a traditional object may look.
Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture is an important book for all
collections dealing with Asian studies, art, popular culture, and
interdisciplinary studies.
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that examine
the subjective experiences of the moulding of creativity, for good
or bad, by institutional values. It is essential reading for anyone
who wishes to gain a glimpse into the circumstances that surround
the creative individual in our current globalising world. With
chapters ranging in scope from the function of the internet in
building creative social spaces to an examination of the dreaming
of their history by the Zpara Amazonian people, this book will
introduce the reader to critical analyses of the many differing
creative spaces we have made for ourselves across the world. In a
radical break from the traditional academic practice of keeping
specialists and disciplines separate, this collection brings
international scholars and practitioners together from many
disciplines all of whom have the shared intention of understanding
creative self empowerment in the new conditions of what the
sociologist Ulrich Beck calls Second Modernity. An innovative text
that illuminates the contemporary global cultural space in which
multiple histories and traditions are intersecting and slowly
rupturing the certainties of the first modernity of colonialism,
nationalism and industrialisation, this collection presents essays
that had their origins as papers in the Subjectivity, Creativity,
and the Institution Conference that was convened by the Chinese
Australian Studies Research Centre at Sun Yat-sen University,
Guangzhou, China and held at the John Curtin Gallery, in Perth,
Australia. It includes the keynote presentation by the
distinguished Australian sociologist Professor Raewyn Connell.
This text summarizes and contextualizes the ideas that have formed
visual arts practices in the 20th century. Art, design and
architecture are located in their social and political contexts,
and the ideas of modernism are traced from the development of
industrialized Europe at the turn of the century to the
post-industrial, post-colonial present. The complex relationship
between modernism and postmodernism in the visual arts is examined
and the book concludes with a review of the global impact of the
new technologies on art and design production.
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