In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex WorldMIT Press, 17 févr. 2006 - 332 pages How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people. We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it would be no small matter if "tech" ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives. Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by the broadband communications, smart materials, wearable computing, and connected appliances that we're unleashing upon the world. We need to ask what impact all this stuff will have on our daily lives. Who will look after it, and how? In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now—not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology—ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centered world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles—above all, lightness—inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation. |
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... complex world / John Thackara . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-262-20157-7 ( alk . paper ) , 0-262-70115-4 ( pb ) 1. Engineering design . 2. Design , Industrial . I. Title . TA174.T52 2005 620'.0042 ...
Designing in a Complex World John Thackara. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 1 Lightness 9 2 Speed 29 3 Mobility 51 4 Locality 73 5 Situation 97 vii 6 Conviviality 113 7 Learning 135 8 Literacy 161 9 Smartness 185 10 Flow 211 ...
Designing in a Complex World John Thackara. T Acknowledgments They say that it takes a village to raise.
Designing in a Complex World John Thackara. Being skeptical about technology does not mean rejecting it . There's a lot of technology in this book . For one thing , we don't have an either / or choice : Terra firma , and terabits , are ...
... complex systems , but our own eyes , unaided , are just as important . All over the world , alternative models of organizing daily life are being tried and tested right now . We just need to look for them . When Ezio Manzini ran design ...
Table des matières
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Speed | 29 |
Mobility | 51 |
Locality | 73 |
Situation | 97 |
Conviviality | 113 |
Learning | 135 |
Literacy | 161 |
Smartness | 185 |
Flow | 211 |
Notes | 227 |
What to Read Next | 283 |
Bibliography | 287 |
Index | 297 |