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Les symptômes du mal sont connus : nous recherchons souvent l'originalité dans notre habillement, et nous voilà soumis à l'uniforme de la dernière nouveauté, oubliant notre sens critique et notre crainte du ridicule. Les " tendances " justifient tout : le retour des années 1980, l'arrivée des tongs, la vogue du treillis... Avec l'obsession du paraître, de nouveaux symptômes naissent et prolifèrent, tel le désormais célèbre " syndrome d'achat compulsif ". Mais il serait confortable de penser que les fashion victims sont les seules à succomber... Nous sommes tous soumis à l'emprise de la mode, parfois à notre insu et même contre notre gré. Doit-on alors accuser les marques ou les créateurs de manipuler la société par des mécanismes diaboliques ? Ce serait oublier qu'ils sont eux aussi victimes de la mode. Sommés de découvrir avant tout le monde quelles seront les prochaines tendances, ils sont confrontés à un enjeu vital : s'ils se trompent, ce n'est pas un vêtement qui finira au placard, mais leur réputation ou leur carrière. Cet ouvrage original et documenté, où les petites histoires du milieu se confrontent aux analyses, nous fait découvrir les ressorts cachés d'un univers qui demeure énigmatique. Comment se dessinent les tendances ? Comment le phénomène de la mode peut-il se perpétuer ? Quel rôle jouent les créateurs, les fashion makers et autres stratèges ? Et surtout, pourquoi tolérons-nous cette servitude ? Car, en réalité, il n'existe qu'une seule personne suffisamment forte pour nous contraindre à suivre la mode : nous-même.

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"What would keep the Bauhaus up at night if it were practicing today? A century after its founding by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, as an 'experimental laboratory of the future,' who are the pioneering experimentalists who reinscribe or resist Bauhaus traditions? This book explores the varied legacies, influences, and futures of the Bauhaus. Many of the animating issues of the Bauhaus--its integration of research, teaching, and practice; its experimentation with materials; its democratization of design; its open-minded, heterogeneous approach to ideas, theories, methods, and styles--remain relevant. The contributors to Bauhaus Futures address these but go further, considering issues that design has largely ignored for the last hundred years: gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and disability. Their contributions take the form of essays, photo-essays, interviews, manifestos, diagrams, and even a play. They discuss, among other things, the Bauhaus curriculum and its contemporary offshoots; Bauhaus legacies at the MIT Media Lab, Black Mountain College, and elsewhere; the conflict between the Bauhaus ideal of humanist universalism and current approaches to design concerned with race and justice; designed objects, from the iconic to the precarious; textile and weaving work by women in the Bauhaus and the present day; and design and technology."--

Design --- Philosophy --- Social aspects --- Forecasting --- Bauhaus --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- Forecasting. --- Bauhaus. --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Staatliches Bauhaus --- Baohaosi --- Bauhaus Dessau --- Design - Philosophy --- Design - Social aspects --- Design - Forecasting

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Sociology of culture --- Culture --- Design --- Philosophy --- Social aspects --- Material culture. --- Hulpwetenschappen --- antropologie en cultuur. --- #SBIB:012.AANKOOP --- #SBIB:309H040 --- #SBIB:316.7C140 --- design --- designtheorie --- productdesign --- gebruiksvoorwerpen --- cultuurfilosofie --- antropologie --- consumptiemaatschappij --- tijd --- tijdelijkheid --- ruimte --- ruimtelijkheid --- lichamelijkheid --- 745.01 --- Populaire cultuur algemeen --- Cultuursociologie: cultuur en globale samenlevingen --- Culture - Philosophy --- Design - Social aspects --- Antropologie en cultuur.

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Large dam construction has significant environmental and social impacts at different scales. As the largest developing country in the world, China has built about half of the world’s large dams, and more are expected to be built over the next two decades to meet the country’s rapidly growing demand for energy. This book summarizes and updates information about the history, distribution, functions, and impacts of large dams, both globally and at China’s national level. It then addresses the environmental and social-economic impacts of large dams in China with particular emphasis on the impacts of large dams on relocated people and associated compensation policies. Lastly, it introduces an integrated ecological and socio-economic study conducted in areas affected by dams along the Upper Mekong River, China. This book has the following three goals. The first goal is to summarize and update information on large dams globally and at China’s national level (Ch. 2). We examine large dam problems from different perspectives, ranging from their spatial and temporal distributions and their environmental and social impacts, to discussions and debates centered on them. We also incorporate the results of an empirical investigation of the environmental and socio-economic impacts of large dams on the Upper Mekong River, China, and draw conclusions out of the analysis (Chs.3 & 4). Our second goal is to provide an analysis framework to help understand the environmental and social-economic impacts of dam construction and the resulting environmental degradations and social inequities at different scales (Chs.3 & 4), as well as to offer recommendations for mitigating these impacts within China’s socio-political context (Ch. 5). The significant environmental effects resulting from dam construction include damage to ecological integrity and loss of biological diversity. The most significant social consequences brought by dam projects are their negative impacts on relocated people. Our analysis framework provides approaches to help comprehensively understand these impacts. Our third goal is to provide clues and suggestions for further studies of large dam problems both globally and in China (Ch. 5). The construction of large dams is proceeding rapidly in different parts of the world despite the heated debates on whether they should be built at all. The decision-making process related to building large dams involves considerations of economic viability, environmental sustainability, and social equity. Therefore, interdisciplinary collaborations are required in large dam research and development projects in order to reconcile the interests of different stakeholders and avoid harming ecosystems, biodiversity, and human welfare. Overall, we hope our book facilitates future examinations of large dams by providing summaries of existing data and research related to large dams, and offering a framework for better understanding and analyzing their environmental and social impacts.

Dams --- Hydraulic engineering --- Design -- Social aspects. --- Human beings -- Influence of environment. --- Earth sciences. --- Energy. --- Environmental sciences. --- Biodiversity. --- Human geography. --- Earth Sciences. --- Environmental Science and Engineering. --- Human Geography. --- Energy, general. --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biology --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Environmental science --- Science

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Ethnographic approaches associated with social and cultural anthropology are common currency in systems design. They are employed in academic and industrial research labs, consultancy firms, IT companies and design houses to understand user requirements, to develop design ideas, and to evaluate computing systems. Doing Design Ethnography is about one particularly influential approach: ethnomethodologically informed or inspired ethnography. This approach focuses distinctively on the embodied work practices that people use to conduct their everyday activities and to concert them with others. It enables system developers to factor the social organisation of human activities into IT research and systems design, and to do so with respect to its real world, real time character. Doing Design Ethnography is the first dedicated practical text explaining how to do ethnography in a design context. Particular emphasis is placed on doing to convey and elaborate the approach as a concrete job of work consisting of particular skills and competences that are responsive to the practical demands of systems development. The authors work through a range of examples to elaborate key aspects of the job, and offer practical guidelines for researchers and design practitioners who seek to do ethnography for systems design.   Andrew Crabtree, Mark Rouncefield and Peter Tolmie draw on over 50 years of combined practical experience to create this book, which will be of broad appeal to students and practitioners in Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and software engineering, providing valuable insights as to how to conduct ethnography and relate it to systems design.

System design -- Social aspects. --- System design --- Anthropology --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Social Sciences --- Computer Science --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Social aspects --- Computer science --- Social aspects. --- Informatics --- Design, System --- Systems design --- Computer science. --- Software engineering. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Sociology. --- Computer Science. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems. --- Sociology, general. --- Science --- Electronic data processing --- System analysis --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction