Michalle Gal, Jonathan Ventura

Introduction to Design Theory

Philosophy, Critique, History and Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook introduces a comprehensive, systematic, and didactic outline of the discourse of design. Aimed towards undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as teachers and scholars, the book invites readers to engage with design from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 247mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9781032106182
• ISBN-10: 1032106182
• Artikelnr.: 67679181

Autorenporträt

Michalle Gal is a Professor of Philosophy at the Unit of History and Philosophy of Art and Design and the Interdisciplinary Design Graduate Program, Shenkar College, Israel. Gal is the author of Visual Metaphors and Aesthetics: A Formalist Theory of Metaphor (2022) and Aestheticism: Deep Formalism and the Emergence of Modernist Aesthetics (2015), and the co-editor of the special issues Art and Gesture (2014), Visual Hybrids (2023, Poetics Today) and Design and its Relations (2023, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics). Jonathan Ventura is a Professor of Design Theory and Research and the Director of the Unit for History and Philosophy of Art and Design at Shenkar College, Israel; Ventura is also a visiting scholar at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art, UK, and an international instructor at the PhD School at MOME University in Budapest Hungary. He is the co-founder and co-director of the international Social Design Network (https://www.socialdesignnetwork.org/).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Definitions of Design 2. Form and Function 3. Design and (or as) Language 4. Design Between Theory and Practice: Applied Theories of Design 5 Design
Culture
and Social Institutions 6. Design and Industry 7. Design
Ecologies and the Body 8. Design and Ideology