The Routledge Companion to Design Studies
Penny Sparke, "The Routledge Companion to Design Studies "
English | ISBN: 0367201682 | 2019 | 576 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
English | ISBN: 0367201682 | 2019 | 576 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
Since the 1990s, in response to dramatic transformations in the worlds of technology and the economy, design – a once relatively definable discipline, complete with a set of subdisciplines – has become unrecognizable. Consequently, design scholars have begun to address new issues, themes and sub-disciplines such as: sustainable design, design for well-being, empathic design, design activism, design anthropology, and many more.
The Routledge Companion to Design Studies charts this new expanded spectrum and embraces the wide range of scholarship relating to design – theoretical, practice-related and historical – that has emerged over the past four decades. Comprising forty-three newly commissioned chapters, the