Utility Reassessed: The Role of Ethics in the Practice of Design (Studies in Design)
by Judy Attfield
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This collection of essays both defines and reassesses the concept of utility. In considering the place of ethics in the recent history of art and design, the text offers a way into the issues which concern design decision-makers today.The text presents topics such as the investigation in to hitherto undiscovered designs for a utility vehicle, it gives a perspective on the philosophy behind the concept of utility as a design theory and offers a critique of the dangers of good design. The text show more approaches the subject as a continuing history that has attempted to improve the human condition, through a process of rational thought in the construction of the material world. Using the history of Utility as a design theory, the text suggests ways in which the past can teach us something of the present, and reveals why, on the cusp of the new millennium, Utility is important. show lessTags
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- 745.401 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Decorations & Handicrafts / Calligraphy Pure And Applied Philosophy And Psychology
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