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  • When Me and God Were Little

    by Mads Nygaard ...
    Translated by Steve Schein ...
    Seven-year-old Karl Gustav is sent away to live with his grandma following the death of his big brother, Alexander. No one understands how Alexander, an excellent swimmer, washed up on a North Sea beach near the harbor of Hirtshals in Denmark.Karl Gustav is left bewildered and at a loss. While everyone around him shies away from talking about the tragedy, he becomes increasingly concerned about ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Design Aesthetics

    Theoretical Basics and Studies in Implication

    by Mads Nygaard Folkmann ...
    An original exploration of the role of aesthetics in contemporary design, uniquely combining philosophical aesthetics and cultural analysis of design.As a product of human ingenuity, design functions as an artificial interface through which we meet the world. While the ubiquity of design seems to render it imperceptible, when we truly reflect on design, we see that it is inextricably entwined with ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Design Culture

    Objects and Approaches

    Edited by Guy Julier, Mads Nygaard Folkmann, Niels Peter Skou, Hans-Christian Jensen, Anders V. Munch ...
    Design culture foregrounds the relationships between the domains of design practice, design production and everyday life. Unlike design history and design studies, it is primarily concerned with contemporary design objects and the networks between the multiple actors engaged in their shaping, functioning and reproduction. It acknowledges the rise of design as both a key component and a key ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Aesthetics of Imagination in Design

    by Mads Nygaard Folkmann ...
    Series series Design Thinking, Design Theory
    A theoretically informed investigation that relates the philosophies of aesthetics and imagination to understanding design practice.In The Aesthetics of Imagination in Design, Mads Folkmann investigates design in both material and immaterial terms. Design objects, Folkmann argues, will always be dual phenomena—material and immaterial, sensual and conceptual, actual and possible. Drawing on formal ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    A New Framework for Architecture

    by Patrik Schumacher ...
    Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logic. Architecture's conception of itself is addressed as well as its development within wider contemporary society.Author Patrik Schumacher offers innovative treatment that enriches architectural theory with a coordinated arsenal of concepts facilitating ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Making Design Theory

    by Johan Redstrom ...
    Series series Design Thinking, Design Theory
    A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design.Tendencies toward “academization” of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms. In this book, Johan Redström offers a new approach to theory development in design research–one that is ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Multimodality

    A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication

    by Gunther Kress ...
    The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes of communication and meaning making.Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication represents a long-awaited and much anticipated addition to the study of multimodality from the ... Read more

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  • Luhmann Explained

    From Souls to Systems

    by Hans-Georg Moeller ...
    Series series Ideas Explained
    What are systems? What is society? What happens to human beings in a hypermodern world? This book is an introduction to Niklas Luhmann's social system theory which explains specific functions like economy and mass media from a cybernetic perspective. Integrating various schools of thought including sociology, philosophy and biology Luhmann Explained results in an overall analysis of "world society ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art

    by Katja Kwastek ...
    An art-historical perspective on interactive media art that provides theoretical and methodological tools for understanding and analyzing digital art.Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present a challenge for academic art history. In this book, Katja Kwastek argues ... Read more

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  • Can Theory Help Translators?

    A Dialogue Between the Ivory Tower and the Wordface

    by Andrew Chesterman, Emma Wagner ...
    Series series Translation Theories Explored
    Can Theory Help Translators? is a dialogue between a theoretical scholar and a professional translator, about the usefulness (if any) of translation theory. The authors argue about the problem of the translator's identity, the history of the translator's role, the translator's visibility, translation types and strategies, translation quality, ethics and translation aids. ... Read more

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  • The Narrative Subject

    Storytelling in the Age of the Internet

    by Christina Schachtner ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book considers the stories of adolescents and young adults from different regions of the world who use digital media as instruments and stages for storytelling, or who make the media the subject of story telling. These narratives discuss interconnectedness, self-staging, and managing boundaries. From the perspective of media and cultural research, they can be read as responses to ... Read more

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  • Theories in and of Mathematics Education

    Theory Strands in German Speaking Countries

    by Angelika Bikner-Ahsbahs, Andreas Vohns, Oliver Schmitt, Regina Bruder, Willi Dörfler ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This survey provides an overview of German meta-discourse on theories and mathematics education as a scientific discipline, from the 1970s to the 1990s. Two theory strands are offered: a semiotic view related to Peirce and Wittgenstein (presented by Willibald Dörfler), and the theory of learning activity by Joachim Lompscher (presented by Regina Bruder and Oliver Schmitt). By networking the two ... Read more

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