It is always nice to find a new book with an intriguing title that resonates with ones own interests. That happened when I recently found the book " Designing Things - A critical introduction to the culture of objects " by Prasad Boradkar. This is one book in a growing stream of writings focused on 'things', objects, and artifacts. There seems to be an increasing interest in the material world and especially in the world that consists of designed objects. There exists of course a long history of research and studies with the 'thing' in focus, but never with the same intensity and richness as right now. Boradkar has written a book that takes this growing interest in material things as a starting point. The book is presented as providing a ' map of the rapidly changing field of design studies '. Boradkar does indeed present a ' map '. Even though there is an underlying theoretical perspective that the author favors, most of the book, with i...
Interaction Design, HCI, Philosophy of Design, Technology and Society