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Design for the Real World Human Ecology and Social Change
Papanek, Victor Publisher: Bantam, New York, USA Year Published: 1973 First Published: 1970 Pages: 378pp Price: $2.25 Resource Type: Book
While two-thirds of the world's population lives in poverty, valuable human and natural resources are used to produce: fur-covered toilet seats, electronic nail polish dryers, diapers for parakeets, and mink-oil fertilizer for "the plant that has everything." Papanek discusses why the things you buy are expensive, badly designed, unsafe, and often don't work. He proposes alternative ways of thinking and alternative designs for safe, inexpensive, and desperately needed products.
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Table of Contents:
Introduction, by R. Buckminster Fuller Preface
Part One / Like It Is 1. What is Design? A Definition of Design and the Function complex 2. Phylogenocide A History of the Industrial Design Profession 3. The Myth of the Noble Slob Design, "Art," and the Crafts 4. Do-It-Yourself Murder The Social and Moral Responsibilities of the Designer 5. Our Kleenex Culture Obsolescence, Permanence, and Value 6. Snake Oil and Thalidomide Mass Leisure and Phony Fads in the Abundant Society
Part Two / How It Could Be 7. Rebel With a Cause Creativity vs. Conformity 8. How to Succeed in Design Without Really Trying Areas of Attack for Responsible Design 9. the Tree of Knowledge: Bionics The Use of Biological Prototypes in the Design of Man-made Systems 10. Conspicuous Consumptives: Design and the Environment Pollution, Crowding, Starvation, and the Designed Environment 11. The Neon Blackboard The Education of Designers and the Construction of Integrated Design Teams 12. Design for Survival and Survival Through Design What Can We Do?
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