CONTENTS


Editors' Biographies Authors' Biographies
General Introduction


PART I: CONCEPTUALIZATION
Introduction 7
1. Branzi's Dilemma: Design in Contemporary Culture 13
Richard Buchanan
2. Designing the Artificial: An Interdisciplinary Study 28
Massimo Negrotti " "
3. A Scenario for Design 37
Wolfgang Jonas
4. Information and Reality at the Turn of the Century 53
Albert Borgmann
5. Thorstein Veblen at the University of Chicago and the Socialization of Aesthetics 61
Ellen Mazur Thomson
6. Adolf Eoos and the Aphoristic Style: Rhetorical Practice in Early Twentieth-Century 72
Design Criticism
John V. Maciuika
1, The Things That Matter 83
Peter-Paul Verbeek and Petran Kockelkoren
8. Domestication of Everyday Life Technology: Dynamic Views on the Social Histories 95
of Artifacts
Mika Pantzar
9. Environmental Design and Industrial Design: Integrating Knowledge Around 108
Urgent Issues
Medardo Chiapponi
Further Reading for Part I 117
PART II: FABRICATION Section 1: The Design Process and New Domains of Practice 119
Introduction to Section 1 121
10. Simulated Seas: Exhibition Design in Contemporary Aquariums 123
Dennis Doordan
11. The Arts of War: "Visual Presentation" and National Intelligence 131
Barry Katz
12. "This is my Brain Book": Day-Timers and Expedient Design 149
Sara K. Schneider
13. The Design of the Connection Machine 155
Tamiko Thiel
14. Accidental Machines: The Impact of Popular Participation in Computer Technology 167
Michael Punt
15. Typography and the Screen: A Technical Chronology of Digital Typography, 1984—1997 188 Loretta Staples
Further Reading for Part II, Section 1 205
Section 2: The Design Process and the Social Meaning of Things 207
Introduction to Section 2 209
16. History from Things: Notes on the History of Industrial Design 211
Raimonda Riccini
17. Olympus and the Marketplace: Reyner Banham and Design Criticism 228
Nigel Whiteley
18. Visibility in Progress Giovanni Anceschi 238
19. Softening Up the Facts: Engineers in Design Meetings 247
Peter Lloyd and Jerry Busby
20. Fourth-Order Design: A Practical Perspective 260
Tony Golsby-Smith
Further Reading for Part II, Section 2 277
PART III: EVALUATION
Introduction 281
21. It's a Nice World After All: The Vision of "Difference" in Colors 285
Ann Tyler
22 Design, Environment, and Social Quality: From Existenzminimum to 300
"Quality Maximum" Ezio Manzini
23. Values in Design: Existenzminimum, "Maximum Quality," and "Optimal Balance" 306
John Hirst
24. Science, Semiotics, and Society: The Ulm Hochschule fiir Gestaltung in Retrospect 314
Paul Betts
25. Ecological Design: A New Critique 328
Pauline Madge
26. Biophilia and Technophilia: Examining the Nature/Culture Split in Design Theory 339
David Stairs
27. Ethics, Aesthetics, and Design 346
Alain Findeli
Further Reading for Part HI 365
General Bibliography 367
Index 369