We Are Not Users : Dialogues, Diversity, and Design, Paperback

by Yoram Reich, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Sruthi Krishnan

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We Are Not Users : Dialogues, Diversity, and Design, Paperback by Subrahmanian, Eswaran; Reich, Yoram; Krishnan, Sruthi, ISBN 0262553325, ISBN-13 9780262553322, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A call to reclaim and rethink the field of designing as a liberal art where diverse voices come together to shape the material world. We live in a material world of designed artifacts, both and analog. We think of ourselves as users; the platforms, devices, or objects provide a service that we can use. But is this really the case? We Are Not Users argues that people cannot be reduced to the entity called “user”; we are not homogenous but diverse. That buzz of dissonance that we hear reflects the difficulty of condensing our diversity into “one size fits all.” This book proposes that a new understanding of design could resolve that dissonance, and issues a call to reclaim and rethink the field of designing as a liberal art where diverse voices come together to shape the material world. The authors envision designing as a dialogue, simultaneously about the individual and the social—an act enriched by diversity of both disciplines and perspectives. Th presents the building blocks of a language that can conceive designing in all its richness, with relevance for both theory and practice. It introduces a theoretical model, terminology, examples, and a framework for bringing together the social, cultural, and political aspects of designing. It will be essential reading for design theori

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Year: 2024
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780262553322
• Condition: Fine

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