{"product_id":"design-and-agency-9781350513013","title":"Design and Agency","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesign and Agency\u003c\/i\u003e brings together leading international design scholars and practitioners to address the concept of agency in relation to objects, organisations and people. The authors set out to expand the scope of design history and practice, avoiding the heroic narratives of a typical modernist approach. They consider both how the agents of design construct and express their identities and subjectivities through practice, while also investigating the distinctive contribution of design in the construction of individual identity and subjectivity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Individual chapters explore notions of agency in a range of design disciplines and historical periods, including the agency of women in effecting changes to the design of offices and working practices; the role of Jeffrey Lindsay and Buckminster Fuller in developing the design of a geodesic dome; Le Corbusier''s ''Casa Curutchet''; a re-consideration of the gendered historiography of the ''Jugendstil'' movement, and Bruce Ma\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577916002647,"sku":"9781350513013","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350513013.jpg?v=1746097210","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/design-and-agency-9781350513013","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}