In the Bubble
Designing in a Complex World
$60.52
- Paperback
332 pages
- Release Date
17 February 2006
Summary
How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.We’re filling up the world with technology and devices, but we’ve lost sight of an important question- What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble- Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it would be no small matter if “tech” ceased to be …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262701150 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262701154 |
| Author: | John Thackara |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 332 |
| Release Date: | 17 February 2006 |
| Weight: | 476g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
| Series: | In the Bubble |
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In the Bubble is often delightful, stimulating, and surprising. Thackara may well emerge as a visionary voice for the wired era. For planners, designers, and anyone with an interest in the future, this book is a rich resource of inspiration, ideas, and guiding principles as well as sharply observed cautionary tales. It suggests that what the tech revolution most needs, and may already be moving toward, is a sense of purpose.
– Bill S. Kowinski * San Francisco Chronicle *Thackara has built an intricate and compelling case for the continuing impact of local action in a networked world…I hope he’s right.
* I.D. Magazine *An excellent new book…so push aside that colorful pile of photo-packed publications and pick up In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World, in whose pages ‘design’ is understood to be more about process than product, more about systems and services than about surfaces and packages, more about work to do than things to buy.
* ArtsJournal.com *Thackara leaps nimbly from statistics to observations to anecdotes, from past to present to future, from energy to the environment, from the Burning Man Festival in Arizona to the Bombay Lunch Delivery program.
* Architectural Record *If you’ve ever found yourself saying, ‘bad TiVO,’ design critic John Thackara is talking to you.
* Fast Company *About The Author
John Thackara
John Thackara, described as a “design guru, critic and business provocateur” by Fast Company, is the Director of Doors of Perception, a design futures network based in Amsterdam and Bangalore. He is the author of Design after Modernism, Lost in Space- A Traveler’s Tale, Winners! How Successful Companies Innovate by Design, and other books. Since 2002, he has authored the Doors of Perception blog and newsletter (http-///).
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