Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
Author: Victor Papanek
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Published: 08/30/2005
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.69w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9780897331531
About the Author
Although most of Dr. Papanek's work had been in product design, his background included architecture and anthropology. He taught or chaired departments at universities in Canada, the United States, Denmark, Sweden and England. In recognition of his work to create a closer understanding between the impoverished Third World and technologically advanced countries, he was nominated for the Alternative Nobel Prize. In 1981 he received the ICSID/Kyoto Honours Award for his development of a communications device for the governments of Tanzania and Nigeria. He was also senior design consultant to Volvo of Sweden, to the government of Papua New Guinea and to a medical lighting firm in Australia. From 1981 he was permanent J.L. Constant Distinguished Professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Dr. Papanek died in 1998.