Sifting the Trash
A History of Design Criticism
How product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill.Product design criticism operates at the very brink of the landfill site, salvaging some products with praise but consigning others to its depths through condemnation or indifference. When a designed product's usefulness is past, the public happily discards it to make room for the next new thing. Criticism rarely deals with how a product might be used, or not used, over time; it is more likely to play the enabler, encouraging our addiction to consumption. With Sifting the Trash, Alice Twemlow offers an especially timely reexamination of…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-262-34446-3
- EAN: 9780262344463
- Produktnummer: 27874535
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 32'792 KB
- Abbildungen: 42 COLOR ILLUS., 69 B&W ILLUS.
Über den Autor
Alice Twemlow, a writer, lecturer, and curator, is Co-head of the Masters Program in Design Curating and Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands. From 2008 to 2016, she was Founding Chair of the Masters Program in Design Research, Writing, and Criticism at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
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