Design by Use: The Everyday Metamorphosis of Things

Uta Brandes; Sonja Stich; Miriam Wender

Published by Birkhäuser 2009

Design by Use

The Everyday Metamorphosis of Things

Uta Brandes , Sonja Stich and Miriam Wender

In the series Board of International Research in Design

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783034609128

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About this book

Everyday life as a source of inspiration

This publication explores and analyzes a very special kind of design – the phenomenon, as normal as it is wonderful, in which people with no formal training in design take things that have already been designed and reuse them, convert them to new uses, in short, "misuse" them in the very best sense of the word. Non-intentional design (NID) goes on every day, in every area of life, in every region of the world. Redesign through reuse makes things multifunctional and cleverly combines them to generate new functions. It is often reversible, resource-friendly, improvisational, innovative, and economical. It can become a source of inspiration for design, provided professional designers look up and take notice of what actually happens to all the things they design when they are used.

The first scholarly account of non-intentional design
Contains a wealth of new insights for professional designers
Another volume in the series BIRD: Board of International Research in Design

Author / Editor information

Uta Brandes is a professor of design research and gender and design at the Cologne International School of Design (KISD).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ii
Transition and Experience as Perspectives of Design Research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	4
Fluid Design & Research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
A View of Other Disciplines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Related Strategies of Discovery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Intentional Re-Design Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Non-Intentional Design from an Empiricist Perspective Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
The Subjects: Objects of, and Reasons for, Repurposing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
The Objects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
The Process of Discovery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Non-Intentional Design in Public Spaces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Design between Subject and Object Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Design as Applied Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Professional/practitioner
Pages
- Main content: 192
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 210
Keywords: Design

eBook

Published: March 4, 2013
ISBN: 9783034609128

Hardcover

Published: October 2, 2008
ISBN: 9783764388676