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Author : University of Columbia
Release : 2013
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Book Synopsis The Social Design Public Action Reader by : University of Columbia
Download or read book The Social Design Public Action Reader written by University of Columbia. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Resnick
Release : 2019-08-22
Genre : Design
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Book Synopsis The Social Design Reader by : Elizabeth Resnick
Download or read book The Social Design Reader written by Elizabeth Resnick. This book was released on 2019-08-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book] is an anthology of key writings written over the past 55 years by leading proponents, researchers, and practitioners shaping the emergence of socially responsible design as a concept, as a nascent field of study, and as a developing discipline within professional design practice."--Preface (page [xiii]).
Author : Vijayendra Rao
Release : 2004
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Culture and Public Action by : Vijayendra Rao
Download or read book Culture and Public Action written by Vijayendra Rao. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Led by Amartya Sen, Mary Douglas, and Arjun Appadurai, the distinguished anthropologists and economists in this book forcefully argue that culture is central to development, and present a framework for incorporating culture into development discourse. For further information on the book and related essays, please visit www.cultureandpublicaction.org.
Author : Patrick Haughey
Release : 2017-07-12
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Across Space and Time by : Patrick Haughey
Download or read book Across Space and Time written by Patrick Haughey. This book was released on 2017-07-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity tends to be considered a mostly Western, chronologically recent concept. Looking at locations in Brazil, Java, India, Georgia, and Yugoslavia, among others, Across Space and Time provides architectural and cultural evidence that modernity has had an impact across the globe and for much longer than previously conceived. This volume moves through space and time to illustrate the way global modernity has been negotiated through architecture, urban planning, design pedagogies, preservation, and art history in diverse locations around the world. Bringing together emerging and established architecture and art history scholars, each chapter focuses on a particular site where modernity was defined, challenged, or reinterpreted. The contributors examine how architectures, landscapes, and design thinking influence and are influenced by conflicts between cultural, economic, technological, and political forces. By invoking well-researched histories to ground their work in a post-colonial critique, they closely examine many prevailing myths of modernity. Notable topics include emerging architectural history in the Indian subcontinent and the connection between climate change and architecture. Ultimately, Across Space and Time contributes to the ongoing critique of architecture and its history, both as a discipline and within the academy. The authors insist that architecture is more than a style. It is a powerful expression of representational power that reveals how a society negotiates its progress.
Author : Claudia Banz
Release : 2018
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Social Design by : Claudia Banz
Download or read book Social Design written by Claudia Banz. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social design is design for society and with society. As social innovation and on the basis of dialogue and participation, social design strives for a new networking of the individual, civil society, government, and the economy. Social design is thus a response to a global growth economy and its consequences for humans and the environment: The means of production and resources are becoming scarcer, setting off discussions about the need to redesign social systems and living and working environments. Architects and designers have always played a vital role in shaping this social culture. 'Social Design' thus presents a long-overdue survey of current international positions of interdisciplinary breadth, ranging from new infrastructures to the re-conquest of cities by their inhabitants. Some twenty-seven projects in the areas of cityscape and countryside, housing, education and work, production, migration, networks, and the environment are framed by three research studies that trace the historical roots and foundations of social design and look at today's theoretical discourse as well as future trends.
