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Book SynopsisElizabeth Resnick is Professor Emerita of Graphic Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA.Trade ReviewThis is a powerful and timely survey of the social design territory and its evolution in the past few decades. Resnick provides an insightful overview of the ways in which design is addressing some of the most pressing issues facing us in the 21st century. Essential reading. * Terry Irwin, Head of the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, USA *One of the most compelling design compendiums to emerge since the Looking Closer series! Resnick’s selection of essays, both historical and contemporary, offers astute and critical discussions about the transformative potential of socially responsible design. This timely book makes for essential reading for design scholars and practitioners alike. * Fatima Cassim, Co-Editor of Image and Text journal, South Africa *In times when some of the founding values of our society seem in crisis, it is urgent to question the social responsibility of designers. This collection of essays on social design, edited by Elizabeth Resnick, is a good starting point for every designer who sees in their practice a chance to promote social innovation. * Gianni Sinni, Deputy Director of the Design MA at the University of the Republic of San Marino *Elizabeth Resnick’s The Social Design Reader should be on every essential reading list in design schools everywhere. It provides a much-needed common vocabulary to discuss the maturation of design theory and practice over the last 50 years. The ideas in this book will be the catalyst for debate and discussion, dissertations, masters’ projects and research topics, and hopefully the material for a future edition. * Olwen Moseley, Professor of Design Industry Engagement at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK *In times when 'social design' and 'design for good' have become ubiquitous labels too easily applied at a surface level, The Social Design Reader offers access to seminal readings and a starting point for a shared framework to challenge design's role in effecting change through critically examining foundations, methodologies, ethics, and efficacy. * Ann McDonald, Associate Professor of Design at Northeastern University, USA *A crucial tool for anyone interested in learning more about the topics of [the social design] debate. * Ais/Design Journal (trans. by Bloomsbury) *Table of Contents- Preface / Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA Section 1: Making a Stand: A New Social Agenda for Design - Introduction - Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA - Is Social Design A Thing? - Cameron Tonkinwise, University of Technology Sydney, Australia - Social Design: From Utopia to the Good Society - Victor Margolin, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - Emigré Culture and the Origins of Social Design - Alison J. Clarke, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria Section 2: Creating the Future: Defining the Socially Responsible Designer 1964–1999 - Introduction - Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA - First Things First Manifesto - Ken Garland, independent scholar, UK - Here Are Some Things We Must Do - Ken Garland, independent scholar, UK - Edugraphology—The Myths of Design and the Design of Myths - Victor Papanek, formerly University of Kansas, USA - Design As A Socially Significant Activity - Clive Dilnot, independent scholar, USA - Designerly Ways of Knowing - Nigel Cross, Open University, UK - The Future Isn’t What it Used to Be - Victor Papanek, formerly University of Kansas, USA - Commerce or Culture: Industrialization and Design - John Heskett, formerly Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Wicked Problems in Design Thinking - Richard Buchanan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Good Citizenship: Design as a Social and Political Force - Katherine McCoy, formerly Illinois Institute of Technology, USA - Feminist Perspectives (Design for Society) - Nigel Whitely, independent scholar, UK - There is Such a Thing as Society - Andrew Howard, Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Portugal - Design and Reflexivity - Jan van Toorn, independent scholar, The Netherlands - Design Noir - Anthony Dunne, The New School, USA Section 3: A Sea Change: The Paradigm Shift from Objects to Systems 2000–2020 - Introduction - Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA - First Things First Manifesto 2000 - Kalle Lasn, Adbusters, Canada - A “Social Model” of Design: Issues of Practice and Research - Victor Margolin, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA and Sylvia Margolin, independent scholar, USA - The Dematerialization of Design - Jorge Frascara, University of Alberta, Canada - Why Being "Less Bad" Is No Good (Cradle to Cradle) - William McDonough, World Economic Forum, Switzerland and Michael Braungart, Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency, Germany - Clothes That Connect - Kate Fletcher, University of the Arts London, UK - Design's Role in Sustainable Consumption - Ann Thorpe, independent scholar, UK - Transformative Services and Transformation Design - Daniela Sangiorgi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Rethinking Design Thinking, Part I - Lucy Kimbell, University of the Arts London, UK - Rethinking Design Thinking, Part 2 - Lucy Kimbell, University of the Arts London, UK - Design Things and Design Thinking: Contemporary Participatory Design Challenges - Erling Bjögvinsson, Gothernburg University, Sweden, Pelle Ehn, Malmö University, Sweden and Per-Anders Hillgren, Malmö University, Sweden - From Design Culture to Design Activism - Guy Julier, University of Brighton, UK - Decolonizing Design Innovation – Elizabeth Tunstall, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Canada - Social Design and Neocolonialism - Cinnamon Janzer, independent scholar, USA and Lauren Weinstein, Australian Centre for Social Innovation, Australia - Futuristic Gizmos, Conservative Ideals: On Speculative Anachronistic Design - Luiza Prado de O. Martins, A Parede, Germany and Pedro Vieira de Oliveira, A Parede, Germany - Privilege and Oppression: Towards a Feminist Speculative Design - Luiza Prado de O. Martins, A Parede, Germany - Is Sustainable Innovation an Oxymoron? - Elizabeth B-N Sanders, MakeTools, UK - Social innovation and design: Enabling, replicating and synergizing - Ezio Manzini, DESIS Network, Italy - Global Methods, Local Designs - Ahmed Ansari, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - The Emerging Transition Design Approach - Terry Irwin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Contributors bios - Further reading - Index

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Book SynopsisCharlotte Ashby lectures in the history of art and design at Birkbeck, University of London, the Courtauld Institute of Art and Oxford University, UK.Trade ReviewA rich and fascinating account of art and design, in a particular place, during the modern period. It is an excellent introduction to the subject and offers many very useful suggestions for further research and reading ... Evocative and compelling. * Decorative Arts Society newsletter *Charlotte Ashby’s impressively wide-ranging survey of Nordic modernism is a timely and much needed examination of the complex and interrelated strands of Scandinavian innovation in theory and practice. Its inclusive and multi-disciplinary approach, giving recognition to the internal and international impulses the fuelled the phenomenal successes of progressive Nordic culture, offering a fresh and original consideration that will appeal to the specialist and general reader alike. * David Jackson, Professor of Russian and Scandinavian Art Histories at the University of Leeds, UK *Modernism in Scandinavia is an impressive introduction to modern Nordic art, design, and architecture. Sidestepping the conventional lexical approach, Charlotte Ashby builds her narrative around a series of case studies ranging from mundane utensils to monumental buildings, from private interiors to public exhibitions. The result is an accessible and engaging account of Nordic modernism, which will be a wonderful resource for international students and scholars. * Kjetil Fallan, Professor of Design History at the University of Oslo, Norway *Ashby’s case studies offer formal analyses that strike an impressive balance between commenting on the artworks in their own right as aesthetic objects and as objects of sociocultural significance... Ashby comments on paintings, design, and architecture with great scholarly authority, and with an ease that makes the reading experience both engaging and thought-provoking. Her formal analyses are stunningly detailed and well composed. Combined with Ashby’s rigorous historical commentary, these interpretations breathe new life into the objects discussed... Ashby’s book will prove a valuable resource for students and scholars who seek a diverse and thorough introduction to the rich history of modernism in Scandinavia. * Ingrid Nordgaard, Researcher in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 – Up to 1890 – The Foundations of Modernism Chapter 2 – 1890 – 1910 – A New Style for a New Age Chapter 3 – 1910 – 1930 – Classicism and the Universal Vision Chapter 4 – 1930 – 1950 – Modernism: Better Things for Everyday Life Chapter 5 – Post-war Modernism Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisZoy Anastassakis is a designer and anthropologist. She is Associate Professor at Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she coordinates the research group Laboratorio de Design e Antropologia (Design and Anthropology Laboratory), and was Director from 2016 to 2018. In 2018, she was invited as a guest researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Since 2019, she has been an associate researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) in Lisbon, Portugal.Marcos Martins is a designer and Associate Professor at Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he was Deputy Director from 2016 to 2018. His work as a designer ranges across several fields, and his research seeks to open design to intersections with other domains such as art, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis and education. Since his post-doctoral research at Princeton University, USA in Trade ReviewZoy Anastassakis and Marcos Martins take us on a personal journey through the challenges of leadership, management and teaching in a design school during times of uncertainty, precariousness and government neglect in Brazil. Weaving together stories of everyday experiences demonstrating at once alternative ways of thinking design acts, the resilience of educators and students, and the bonds that are developed when a situation and a state is on the brink of collapse, this book is an urgent read for all design students and educators. -- Dana Abdullah, University of the Arts London, UKIn this account of a present intensively lived, Anastassakis and Martins reveal the individual struggles and collective actions of ESDI’s prodigious community of precarious lives. Reimagining the first and foremost design education institution in Brazil, Latin America and the Portuguese language demanded shuffling functions, challenging privileges and questioning conventions. But also claiming resistance, vulnerability, care, interdependence, coexistence and solidarity as essential terms of a design lexicon they generously share with us in this momentous book. -- Frederico Duarte, University of Lisbon, PortugalHope is perhaps the element to be harnessed in a time that insists on oppressing and in which different ways of doing things are designed to circumvent the investments of domination. In these margins, scribbling is the act of imprinting life, whether it be to inscribe battles and continuity, or to strike through the logics that paint a world obsessed with a single, exclusive method. Education, when it becomes an inventive and radical stroke of life, affirms itself as an ordinary task, as everyday acts that give other contours to the margins. -- Luiz Rufino, Rio de Janeiro State University, BrazilTable of ContentsList of Figures Foreword, Timothy Ingold (University of Aberdeen, UK) Acknowledgements Historical Background Map and ESDI Ground Plan Introduction 1. Landing 2. Curriculum 3. A Land-slipping panic 4. Drawing Together 5. Crisis 6. Design Research 7. Impasses and Correspondences 8. How do you get to the university? 9. Walking barefoot Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis handy book provides a single, up-to-date source of information for increasing the life of tool steels through optimized design and manufacturing. Supplying a solid understanding of the metallurgy involved, the text explains how material compositions, manufacturing processes, heat treatments, surface hardening techniques, and coatings affect tool steel properties, grades, and performance. It also explores real-life case studies and failure analyses, offering examples of die-life parameters and hints for modifying tool steels and heat treatments during cutting or forming processes. While the book offers deep coverage of properties, microstructure, and manufacturing, its focus is on describing the performance of each application of this special class of ferrous materials. Provides a single, up-to-date source of information for increasing the life of tool steels through optimized design and manufacturing. Explains how material compositions, maTrade Review"… updates and improves the literature … in a very strategic and important industrial field."—Rosso Mario, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Table of ContentsIntroduction to Tool Steels. Manufacturing of Tool Steels. Physical Metallurgy of Tool Steels. Hot Work Tool Steels. Cold Work Tool Steels. Plastic Mold Tool Steels. High Speed Steels.

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