{"product_id":"shipping-container-9789386606723","title":"Shipping Container","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Craig Martin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (US)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic India\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sightȦ. 9% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been and where is it going? Craig Martinșs book illuminates the Ȝdevelopment of containerizationȝȔincluding design history, standardization, aesthetics and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic. Craig Martin is Senior Lecturer in Design Cultures at The University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the co-editor, with J. Rugg, of Spatialities: The Geographies of Art and Architecture (2011).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (US)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46359556259991,"sku":"9789386606723","price":163.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789386606723.webp?v=1769306191","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/shipping-container-9789386606723","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}