附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction -- The problem of design -- A metacritical approach -- Part One Design and philosophy -- 1 Design from philosophical perspectives-- Introduction -- Design studies -- Philosophy of design -- The nature of design -- Conclusion -- 2 Aesthetic functionalism about design -- Introduction -- The 'design apology' -- Need, function, flourishing -- Aesthetic experience and value -- Conclusion -- 3 Design and aesthetics of the everyday -- Introduction -- Issues in everyday aesthetics
Design and the idea of everyday aesthetics -- Aesthetic education and world-making -- Conclusion -- Part Two Design work -- 4 The personal experience of designed things -- Introduction -- The need for products -- Product designers -- Chairs and other things -- Conclusion -- 5 The beauty of life: design and everyday living -- Introduction -- Aesthetic interiors -- A machine for living in -- Lifestyles and home futures -- Conclusion -- 6 Designing communities and the good life-- Introduction -- Utopias -- Mass housing and urban planning -- Smart, happy cities -- Conclusion -- Conclusion
The problem of design revisited -- Future inquiry, designing ourselves -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
摘要:What designers do and how we all, as users of designed things, live with their products raises fundamental philosophical questions about how we should live, and how the nature of design work and good design relates to our lives. Jeffrey Petts presents a holistic and pragmatist approach to the philosophy of design. Acknowledging the importance of function in design without downplaying the aesthetic dimension, Petts relates the manner of evaluating design to the designing process itself as demonstrated in the work of, for example, William Morris, Walter Gropius and Bauhaus, Charles and Ray Eames, and Dieter Rams. This metacritical and everyday approach to the philosophy of design expresses a commitment toreal aesthetics, connecting concrete issues in both practice and experience to philosophical ideas, and reveals the role aesthetics plays in considerations about the good life.
