On Designing the Human Environment
Tomás Maldonado
On Designing the Human Environment
Tomás Maldonado
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This volume presents a selection of seminal texts by Argentine design theorist and educator Tomás Maldonado (1922-2018). For over 50 years Maldonado has been recognized as pioneering by generations of designers, design thinkers and design historians from around the world. As an avant-garde artist in his native Argentina, director of the Ulm School of Design in Germany, and consultant for Olivetti ELEA calculator in Italy, his practice was informed and shaped by a complex vision of design in dialogue with other disciplines.
Published for the first time in English, Raimonda Riccini brings together Maldonado's critical writings in four parts: Art and Artefacts, Design Theory, Environmental Design, and Critique of Technologies. This curated set of essays presents a comprehensive overview of his oeuvre on topics such as art and science, architecture and industrial design, epistemology and education, communication and semiotics, bodies and comfort, environmental crisis, and the digital world. In part five, renowned design scholars Lara Penin, Emanuele Quinz, Pierfrancesco Califano and Maria Amalia García interview Maldonado's pupils and collaborators including Gui Bonsiepe, Giovanni Anceschi, Medardo Chiapponi and Silvia Fernandez who offer valuable insights into the trajectory of his intellectual life, global influence and enduring relevance on the contemporary stage.
Advancing our understanding of underexplored areas of Maldonado's design discourse, On Designing the Human Environment makes available in English one of the leading philosophical and critical voices of design history and theory.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Art and Artefacts
Introduction
1. Inventionist Manifesto, 1946
2. Actuality and Future of Concrete Art, “Nueva Visión”, 1951
3. Vordemberge-Gildewart and the Theme of Purity, “Nueva Visión”, 1953
4. The Paradigms of the Avant-garde, Il futuro della modernità, 1987
5. Arts and Science, Reale e virtuale, 1992
Part II. Design Theory
Introduction
Industrial Design: Definitions and Pedagogy
6. Industrial Design and Society, “Cea”, 1949
7. New Developments in Industry and the Training of the Designers, Brussels, 1958
8. The Emergent World: A Challenge to Architecture and Industrial Design Training, Royal College, 1965
9. How to Fight Complacency in Design Education, Princeton, 1966
Understanding the Project
10. Daniel Defoe and the Project, Upon Project, 1983
11. Modernity: Reconstructing the Ship in the Open Sea, 1991
12. Industrial Design: Some Present and Futures Queries, Banham Lecture, 1992
13. Design Today, Buenos Aires, 1997
Communication and Semiotics
6. Communication and Semiotics, “Ulm”, 1959
7. Notes on Communication, “Uppercase”, 1961
8. Las Vegas and the Semiological Abuse, Design & Revolution, 1970
9. Is Architecture a Text? Three American Lectures, 1992
10. Semiotics, Festschrift M. Krampen, 1993
Bodies and Comfort
11. The Idea of Comfort, Il futuro della modernità, 1987 and “Design Issues”
12. The Ambiguities of Interior, “Ottagono”
13. The Body: Artificialization and Transparency, Mediating the Human Body, 2003
Part II: Environmental Design
Introduction
14. Industrial Designer as Problem Solver, Aspen, 1961
15. Toward Environmental Design, “Summa”, 1966
16. Design, Nature, & Revolution: Prefaces, 1970-1992
17. Reconstruction of Nature and Needs Theory, Ist. Gramsci, 1972
18. Design and the Future of Environment, Icsid, Mosca, 1975
19. Environment, Products and Lifestyle, Buenos Aires, 1993
Part IV: Critique of Technologies
Introduction
20. Real and Virtual, 1992
21. Mondo e Techne, Prolusione Ascoli Piceno, 1996
22. Taking Eyeglasses Seriously, “Design Issues”, 1999
23. Project between Real, Possible and Impossible Worlds, Venezia, Iuav, 2001
24. Democracy and Information Society, Bilbao, 2001
25. Memory and Knowledge in the Digital Society, Firenze, 2006
Part V: Interviews Concerning Maldonado
Conversation with Gui Bonsiepe, Lara Penin
Conversation with Giovanni Anceschi, Emanuele Quinz
Conversation with Medardo Chiapponi, Pierfrancesco Califano
Conversation with Silvia Fernandez, Maria Amalia García
Tomás Maldonado: A Brief Biography, Pierfrancesco Califano
List of Contributors
Index
Product details
| Published | 01 Apr 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 368 |
| ISBN | 9781350523357 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Series | Radical Thinkers in Design |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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