{"product_id":"the-politics-of-the-artificial-essays-on-design-and-design-studies-9780226505046","title":"The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Victor Margolin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: The University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Design\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEmerging from the world of commercial art and product styling, design has now become completely integrated into human life. Its marks are all around us, from the chairs we sit on to the Web sites on our computer screens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the pioneers of design studies and still one of its most distinguished practitioners, Victor Margolin here offers a timely meditation on design and its study at the turn of the millennium and charts new directions for the future development of both fields. Divided into sections on the practice and study of design, the essays in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Politics of the Artificial\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e cover such topics as design history, design research, design as a political tool, sustainable design, and the problems of design's relation to advanced technologies. Margolin also examines the work of key practitioners such as the matrix designer Ken Isaacs. Throughout the book Margolin demonstrates the underlying connections between the many ways of reflecting on and practicing design. He argues for the creation of an international, interdisciplinary field of design research and proposes a new ethical agenda for designers and researchers that encompasses the responsibility to users, the problems of sustainability, and the complicated questions of how to set boundaries for applying advanced technology to solve the problems of human life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOpinionated and erudite, Victor Margolin's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Politics of the Artificial\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e breaks fresh ground in its call for a new approach to design research and practice. Designers, engineers, architects, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians will all benefit from its insights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46266924499095,"sku":"9780226505046","price":2528.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226505046.webp?v=1769301201","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-politics-of-the-artificial-essays-on-design-and-design-studies-9780226505046","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}