{"product_id":"designing-designing-radical-thinking-in-design-radical-thinkers-in-design-9781350071971","title":"Designing Designing Radical Thinking in Design","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Chris Jones\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1927, in Aberystwyth, Wales. Jones studied engineering at the University of Cambridge, and went on to work for AEI in Manchester, England. In 1962 he instigated an influential conference on design methods, which led to the formation of the Design Research Society which he chaired from 1971-73. In 2004 he was presented with the Society's Lifetime Achievement Award and from 1970-74 Jones was the first Professor of Design at The Open University, UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesigning Designing\u003c\/i\u003e is a particularly redemptive text ... not only because of the immense self-awareness and epistemic humility Jones demonstrates, but also because it explores in both its content and its form what else design and designing could be. In stark contrast to the predictable and stolid reification of design methods, principles, and practices today, this open-ended flexibility and responsiveness in design practice reflects in the structure of the book itself: a diverse collection of essays, personal reflections, anecdotes, conversations, interviews, and poetry. * Design and Culture *\u003cbr\u003eForegrounding the performing of designing as an ongoing experimental lived practice that is at once personal, social and institutional, this astonishingly prescient book offers fresh insights into how design expertise can be mobilized to address contemporary challenges. This re-issue should inspire a new generation of designers to think deeply and critically about designing, what makes it possible or constrains it, and its positive and negative unfolding consequences. -- Lucy Kimbell, Director, Social Design Institute and Professor of Contemporary Design Practices at the University of Arts London, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations   Introduction to the revised edition by Clive Dilnot  Foreword by C. Thomas Mitchell  Author's Note  Preface to the 1984 edition  Acknowledgements  Introductory Essay: The Future of Breathing    1. A Thought Revolved  Love, hate and architecture  How my thoughts about design methods have changed during the years  Now we are numerous  Beyond rationalism  Principles in design    2. The World Without Imagination  St Ives by chance  Composing by chance  Some reflection on chance  Designing designing    3. It Must Give Pleasure  Opus one, number two  \"... in the dimension of Time\"  Continuous design and redesign  Things    4. Things of August  Is designing a response to the whole of life?  35 wishes  Voices at the conference conference  The design of modern life  Utopia and Numeroso  Afterword by John Thackara Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738585477463,"sku":"9781350071971","price":71.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350071971.jpg?v=1720049558","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/designing-designing-radical-thinking-in-design-radical-thinkers-in-design-9781350071971","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}