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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jesse adams stein”
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  • Hot metal

    Material culture and tangible labour

    by Jesse Adams Stein ...
    Series series Studies in Design and Material Culture
    The world of work is tightly entwined with the world of things. Hot metal illuminates connections between design, material culture and labour between the 1960s and the 1980s, when the traditional crafts of hot-metal typesetting and letterpress were finally made obsolete with the introduction of computerised technologies. This multidisciplinary history provides an evocative rendering of design ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Industrial Craft in Australia

    Oral Histories of Creativity and Survival

    by Jesse Adams Stein ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is the first of its kind to investigate the ongoing significance of industrial craft in deindustrialising places such as Australia. Providing an alternative to the nostalgic trope of the redundant factory ‘craftsman’, this book introduces the intriguing and little-known trade of engineering patternmaking, where objects are brought to life through the handmade ‘originals’ required for ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Designing through Planetary Breakdown

    Locating Material Knowledge and Practical Skill

    Edited by Jesse Adams Stein, Chantel Carr ...
    In an era of profound environmental and geopolitical uncertainty, Designing through Planetary Breakdown offers fresh perspectives on design’s evolving role in the face of planetary change. This unique collection emphasises practices and perspectives at the edges of conventional design, encompassing craft, material knowledge, repair, manual skills, creative practice and non-professional design, to ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Working Through Planetary Breakdown

    Labour, Skill and the Changing Climate

    Edited by Chantel Carr, Jesse Adams Stein ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This book offers a genuinely interdisciplinary engagement with the future of paid and unpaid work in the context of the twin challenges of decarbonisation and the growing impacts of an unstable climate.It is innovative in its grounding of such discussions in the everyday realities of workers’ experiences with an empirical focus on skill, occupational shifts and technological change at the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World

    by Alastair Fuad-Luke ...
    Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline of design meets sustainability drivers and equips students, teachers and professionals for the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Economies of Design

    by Guy Julier ...
    How are the rise of design and neoliberalism connected? How does design change the way we operate as economic beings? What is the economic significance of design?Historically, design has been promoted for its for its capacity to add value to products and services. In contemporary capitalism, however, it assumes a more central and more complex role. Design today is both influenced by, and actively ... Read more

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  • Eco-Homes

    People, Place and Politics

    by Jenny Pickerill ...
    Series series Just Sustainabilities
    It is widely understood that good, affordable eco-housing needs to be at the heart of any attempt to mitigate or adapt to climate change. This is the first book to comprehensively explore eco-housing from a geographical, social and political perspective. It starts from the premise that we already know how to build good eco-houses and we already have the technology to retrofit existing housing. ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Magazine Journalism

    by Tim Holmes, Liz Nice ...
    Series series Journalism Studies: Key Texts
    "For those of us who long ago experienced the magazine love-bite and have been battling the prejudice and scant attention shown this beautiful medium ever since, here at last is the book to set the record straight."- Nicholas Brett, Deputy Managing Director, BBC Magazines**"At a time when magazines are undergoing active redefinition, this book represents a welcome intervention. It engages with a ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Rethinking Leadership for a Green World

    Edited by Andrew Taylor ...
    First James Lovelock, and recently Prince William and David Attenborough believe that we have reached a tipping point in the process of climate change. Whether they are right or not, it is certainly true that the impact of humankind upon the ecology of the earth has reached a point where real changes in human behaviour are required. If managers are to be enablers of planetary survival then we need ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Art : Process : Change

    Inside a Socially Situated Practice

    by Loraine Leeson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    This book brings a practitioner’s insight to bear on socially situated art practice through a first-hand glimpse into the development, organisation and delivery of art projects with social agendas. Issues examined include the artist’s role in building creative frameworks, the relationship of collaboration to participation, management of collective input, and wider repercussions of the ways that ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Lucky Culture

    by Nick Cater ...
    A bold and provocative book about Australia's national identity and a plea to keep Australia's famed open-mindedness, Cater tracks the seismic changes in Australian culture and outlook since Donald Horne published THE LUCKY COUNTRY in 1964. 'A great book.' Rupert MurdochA bold and provocative book about Australia's national identity and how it is threatened by the rise of a ruling class. Nick ... Read more

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  • The Relationship is the Project

    A guide to working with communities

    Edited by Cara Kirkwood, Kate Larsen, Jax Brown, Jade Lillie ...
    A practical guide to building stronger, more equitable communities through collaboration.The Relationship is the Project offers concrete strategies for anyone working with communities, from project managers to artists. This updated edition features insights from over 40 thought leaders on topics like cultural safety, intersectionality, and climate justice.This resource helps you:Navigate ethical ... Read more

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