Redefining Designing: From Form to Experience - Hardcover

Mitchell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0442009879 ISBN 13: 9780442009878

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1991

Synopsis

Redefining Designing From Form to Experience C. Thomas Mitchell Redefining Designing: From Form to Experience offers a comprehensive new theory of design in which user needs and wishes are central. This landmark work focuses on design in terms of human experience rather than physical form. The book offers a highly critical study of design philosophies that have emerged since industrialization: modernism, late modernism, postmodernism, and deconstruction. C. Thomas Mitchell points out how many designs, particularly in architecture, fail to suit their intended purpose –– not because of their style but because of the design process itself. Mitchell then reviews user–responsive design methods, which he calls "design turned inside–out." He explores collaborative, contextual, and intangible design, and cites examples of each. International case studies illustrate up–to–the–minute topics such as "humanware," softecnica, the pattern language, and soft design. Also featured is an interview with Brian Eno and graphic work by artists Christo and Robert Wilson. Many never–before published illustrations enhance the book throughout. A broad synthesis of new thinking on design, Redefining Designing: From Form to Experience will be of great interest to a wide range of professionals, including architects, planners, and landscape architects, as well as product, interior, and industrial designers.

About this title

Synopsis

This text presents a new theory of design, in which user needs and wishes are central. The author focuses on design in terms of human experience rather than physical form. He points out how many designs, particularly in architecture, fail to suit their intended purposes - not because of style but the design process itself. He reviews user-responsive design methods, including collaborative, contextual and intangible design, and cites supporting case studies. The book features scores of international case studies involving such topics as "humanware", softechnica, pattern language and soft design, presenting a broad synthesis of new thinking on design.

About the Author

About the Author C. Thomas Mitchell is Professor of Design and Director, Center for Design Process, at Indiana University.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0442009879
• ISBN 13: 9780442009878
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224