Design as Inventor (Paperback)

Paperback. The aim of this issue of DIID is to describe design as inventor through narrations and illustrations of approaches, experimentation and projects. A useful mapping to re-read the design complexity in order to explore its present boundaries and lay down guidelines for its future developments. Invention pins down a possible solution that the maker uncovers amidst available knowledge. Thinking, inventing and producing: reality - the physical and psychic world - becomes material for continuous investigation and interpretation. Design research 'disrupts to re-arrange', namely, it seeks to achieve original results via re-discussing previously envisaged well-established paradigms and schemes. A penchant for experimentation and contamination allow to define design as inventor: a 'special place' not only for engineering invention, but also for a quest for new forms of behaviour, new material or sensory worlds that can originate radically innovative relationships between men and artefacts. The aim of this issue of DIID is to describe design as inventor through narrations and illustrations of approaches, experimentation and projects. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.