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  • Proximity in Design Research

    People, Processes, Products, Philosophy

    Edited by Rita Assoreira Almendra ...
    Series series Project Thinking on Design
    Proximity in Design Research explores four constituents of design: people, processes, products and philosophy, and their potential to bridge contemporary gaps through multilevel synergies.The book brings together a variety of design approaches on several scales developed in the collaboration of different agencies and within diverse contexts. Proximity prompts us to explore the challenges and ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Design and Industry

    Scenarios for Sustainable Futures

    Edited by Maria João Félix, Rita Assoreira Almendra, Fernando Moreira da Silva, Fátima Pombo, Paulo Jorge de Sousa Cruz ...
    The twenty-first century has been beset by a global pandemic, war and increasingly concerning environmental disasters. Designers and industries have been forced to imagine a world in which the only way to move forward is to look back. The design and industry sectors need to understand the role they can play in removing obstacles to social progress and work together to create healthier human ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Which Proximity in Design Education?

    A Contemporary Curriculum

    Edited by Rita Assoreira Almendra ...
    Series series Project Thinking on Design
    This book explores various pedagogical viewpoints and dialectical positions within the field of design education and the concept of proximity it has established with industries and manufacturing.Which Proximity in Design Education? frames a wide range of approaches in design studios on undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels and their capacity to render meaningful and novel attitudes and ... Read more

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  • Research & Education in Design: People & Processes & Products & Philosophy

    Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research and Education in Design (REDES 2019), November 14-15, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

    Edited by Rita Almendra, João Ferreira ...
    Design is about the creation of meaningful connections to solve problems and advance human wellbeing; the discipline has always explored the beneficial links between form and function, technology and meaning, beauty and utility, people and artefacts and problems and solutions, among others. This book focuses on the crucial connection between design research and design education.Contemporary ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • Challenges for Technology Innovation: An Agenda for the Future

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Smart Manufacturing (S2M 2016), October 20-22, 2016, Lisbon, Portugal

    Edited by Helena Maria Bártolo, Paulo Bártolo, Rita Almendra, Filipa Roseta, Henrique Amorim Almeida, Ana Cristina Lemos, Fernando da Silva ...
    The world is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by radical technological changes and an accelerated globalisation process. A new culture of greater resource efficiency and disruptive innovation will require new technologies, processes and materials, fostering new knowledge, innovation, education and a digital society, bringing forward new business opportunities and novel solutions to ... Read more

    $419.13 CAD

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  • Education for Innovation and Independent Learning

    by Ronaldo Mota, David Scott ...
    Our principal concern in this book is to understand three important ideas: learning, technology and innovation, and to examine these ideas and the relationships between them in situ; that is, we examine a number of cases of learning technologies in action in two countries, England and Brazil. The purpose of our study is to provide an explanation of the means to, and constraints on, improvements to ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Perspectives on Design IV

    Research, Education and Practice

    Edited by Daniel Raposo, João Neves, Ricardo Silva ...
    Series series Mechanical Engineering (R0)
    This book reports on interdisciplinary research and practices in communication, fashion, product, and interior design, highlighting strategies for systematizing the design approach in a global and digital world. It gathers a selection of chapters written by the authors of the best articles presented at the 9th EIMAD conference, on June 27–29, 2024, Portugal. Chapters were chosen considering their ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Design Research

    Edited by Paul A. Rodgers, Joyce Yee ...
    Series series Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Design Research offers an updated, comprehensive examination of design research, celebrating a plurality of voices and range of conceptual, methodological, technological and theoretical approaches evident in contemporary design research.This volume comprises thirty-eight original and high-quality design research chapters from contributors around the ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • CyberParks – The Interface Between People, Places and Technology

    New Approaches and Perspectives

    Edited by Carlos Smaniotto Costa, Ina Šuklje Erjavec, Therese Kenna, Michiel de Lange, Konstantinos Ioannidis, Gabriela Maksymiuk, Martijn de Waal ...
    Series Book 11380 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, empirical studies, and concerns about a phenomenon that is increasingly being in the centre of sciences and strategies – the penetration of digital technologies in the urban space. As the main outcome of ... Read more

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  • Digital Ageism

    How it Operates and Approaches to Tackling it

    Edited by Andrea Rosales, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Jakob Svensson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
    This anthology contributes to creating awareness on how digital ageism operates in relation to the widely spread symbolic representations of old and young age around digital technologies, the (lack of) representation of diverse older individuals in the design, development, and marketing of digital technologies and in the actual algorithms and datasets that constitute them. It also shows how ... Read more

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  • Design Thinking and Innovation in Learning

    Edited by Ellen Taricani ...
    Series series Emerald Points
    Acknowledging that empowering today’s learner to find innovative and enriching experiences brings about a deeper desire within them to learn and develop skills, this book showcases a combination of innovative educational practices and creative pedagogy techniques to demonstrate how educators can kick-start learning success.Serving up chapters that cross cultural boundaries and present numerous ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Advances in Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Communication of Design

    Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conferences on Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Human Factors in Communication of Design, July 25-29, 2021, USA

    Edited by Evangelos Markopoulos, Ravindra S. Goonetilleke, Amic G. Ho, Yan Luximon ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book brings together experts from different areas to show how creativity drives design and innovation in different kind of businesses. It presents theories and best practices demonstrating how creativity generates technological invention, and how this, combined with entrepreneurship, leads to business innovation. It also discusses strategies to teach entrepreneurial competencies and support ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD