Design revolutions: IASDR 2019 Conference Proceedings. Volume 3: People

In September 2019 Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University was honoured to host the bi-annual conference of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) under the unifying theme of DESIGN REVOLUTIONS. This was the first time the conference had been held in the UK. Through key research themes across nine conference tracks – Change, Learning, Living, Making, People, Technology, Thinking, Value and Voices – the conference opened up compelling, meaningful and radical dialogue of the role of design in addressing societal and organisational challenges. This Volume 3 includes papers from People track of the conference

Asian material culture

This exciting, richly illustrated volume gives the reader a unique insight into the materiality of Asian cultures and the ways in which objects and practices can simultaneously embody and exhibit aesthetic and functional characteristics, everyday and spiritual aspirations. Material culture is examined from a variety of perspectives and the authors rigorously investigate the creation and meaning of material object, and their associated practices within the context of time and place. All chapters in this volume are representative, rather than exhaustive, in their portrayal of Asian material culture. Nevertheless, they clearly demonstrate that the objects, seen as material evidence of culture, are entities that resonate with discourses of human relationships, personal and group identity formation, ethics and values, histories, determination of ethnicity, local and international trade, consumption and above all distinctive futures. 1 Asian Material Culture in Context / Marianne Hulsbosch, Elizabeth Bedford & Martha Chaiklin 2 Moon Cakes and the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival: A Matter of Habitus / Elizabeth Bedford 3 Up in the Hair: Strands of Meaning in Women’s Ornamental Hair Accessories in Early Modern Japan / Martha Chaiklin 4 Nonya Beadwork and Contemporary Peranakan Chinese Culture in Singapore and Malaysia / Hwei-Fe'n Cheah 5 Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: The Lion Dance and Chinese National Identity in the 19th and 20th Centuries / Heleanor B. Feltham 6 Works Like a Charm: Cultural Tourism, Colour and its Efficacy in Chinese Miao Traditional Dress / Samantha Hauw 7 Fluttering Like Flowers in a Summer Breeze: Hair Jewellery of Christian Moluccan Women of the Dutch East Indies / Marianne Hulsbosch 8 Tension on the Back-Strap Loom / Audrey LowDeze geC/llustreerde uitgave geeft de lezer een uniek inzicht in de betekenis van Aziatische materiC+le culturen en de manier waarop voorwerpen en gebruiken individuele en collectieve identiteiten, esthetische en functionele kenmerken, menselijke en geestelijke aspiraties aanduiden. Zeven internationaal befaamde auteurs laten met hun onderzoek de unieke aspecten van de Aziatische materiC+le cultuur zien; deze worden vanuit verscheidene perspectieven belicht. Elk hoofdstuk geeft een introductie op het ontstaan, de betekenis en de bijbehorende gebruiken van specifieke materiC+le voorwerpen. De onderzochte objecten variC+ren van populaire Maankoekjes uit China, haarornamenten uit Japan, textiel uit het zuiden van China en MaleisiC+ tot de rijkelijk geborduurde pantoffeltjes van de Paranakan vrouwen uit Zuidoost-AziC+. Dit boek is onmisbaar voor iedereen die geC/nteresseerd is in Aziatische kunst en design, culturele studies, archeologie en sociale studies

An aesthetic for sustainable interactions in product-service systems?

Copyright @ 2012 Greenleaf PublishingEco-efficient Product-Service System (PSS) innovations represent a promising approach to sustainability. However the application of this concept is still very limited because its implementation and diffusion is hindered by several barriers (cultural, corporate and regulative ones). The paper investigates the barriers that affect the attractiveness and acceptation of eco-efficient PSS alternatives, and opens the debate on the aesthetic of eco-efficient PSS, and the way in which aesthetic could enhance some specific inner qualities of this kinds of innovations. Integrating insights from semiotics, the paper outlines some first research hypothesis on how the aesthetic elements of an eco-efficient PSS could facilitate user attraction, acceptation and satisfaction

Federal Register

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