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Design History
Design History has become a complex and wide-ranging discipline. It now examines artifacts from conception to development, production, mediation, and consumption. Over the last few decades, the discipline has developed a diverse range of theories and methodologies for the analysis of objects. Design History presents the most comprehensive overview and guide to these d...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
March 15th 2010
by Berg Publishers
(first published 2010)
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I very much enjoyed the first section of this book; Fallan does a great job of writing an up-to-date historiography of the field of design history. And it doesn't hurt that he cites me (in a favorable light, no less) more than once. I am less convinced, however, that actor-network theory is going to be terribly helpful to the study of design history. It's fashionable, yes, but I've yet to see any particularly useful studies come out of this approach.
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