{"product_id":"the-routledge-companion-to-design-studies-9780367201685","title":"The Routledge Companion to Design Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the 1990s, in response to dramatic transformations in the worlds of technology and the economy, design - a once relatively definable discipline, complete with a set of subdisciplines - has become unrecognizable. Consequently, design scholars have begun to address new issues, themes and sub-disciplines such as: sustainable design, design for well-being, empathic design, design activism, design anthropology, and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Routledge Companion to Design Studies charts this new expanded spectrum and embraces the wide range of scholarship relating to design - theoretical, practice-related and historical - that has emerged over the past four decades. Comprising forty-three newly commissioned chapters, the \u003ci\u003eCompanion \u003c\/i\u003eis organized into the following six sections: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDefining design: discipline, process \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDefining design: objects, spaces \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesigning identities: gender, sexuality, age, nation \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesigning society: empathy, responsibility, consumption, the everyday \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign and politics: activism, intervention, regulation \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesigning the world: globalization, transnationalism, translation. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors include both established and emerging scholars and the chapters offer an international scope, covering work emanating from, and relating to, design in the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, North America, Asia, Australasia and Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of Design Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Penny Sparke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 554\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.69h x 6.85w x 1.17d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367201685\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePenny Sparke \u003c\/strong\u003eis a Professor of Design History and Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eElsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration \u003c\/i\u003e(2005), \u003ci\u003eThe Modern Interior \u003c\/i\u003e(2008) and \u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to Design and Culture, 1900 to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e, 3rd edition (2012). She is the present Chair of the editorial board of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Design History\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFiona Fisher \u003c\/b\u003eis a Researcher in Design History at the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC), Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, where she is Curator of the University's Dorich House Museum. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eDesigning the British Post-War Home: Kenneth Wood, 1948-1968\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) and, co-edited with Christopher Breward and Ghislaine Wood, \u003ci\u003eBritish Design: Tradition and Modernity after 1948\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). She is the present Managing Editor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Design History\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43190230122611,"sku":"9.78037E+12","price":101.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_264c72e9-c647-4b3d-828a-0017194c4d58.jpg?v=1752319946","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-routledge-companion-to-design-studies-9780367201685","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}