Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (719 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822344459 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Understand what is "technoculture". Usman A. Ghani A superb overview and directional advice on design and the nexus of culture and technology. Anne Balsamo has obviously done thorough and deep research to create a new book that should be an essential text in various mongrel disciplines. Her repeated emphasis on NOT thinking exclusively in one discipline (especially technology) and understanding the impact on culture - and the role design plays in making the best of these - is outstanding. I appreciate and use . "A book for understanding frontiers in technoculture" according to Dr Anup K Das. In book "Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work" author Anne Balsamo narrates stories of technological imagination and aesthetic industrial designing as prevalent in the post-industrial western societies. She also introduces new dimensions of designing cultures for the urban spaces, where end users are able to live within ergonomically comfort zone. This book is ideal for scholars in innovation studies and technoculture, and designers of sust. advocate fir culture and education Kimncris Balsamic really has her finger on the pulse of education. And her argument in favor of valuing culture really spoke to me. I work in a university program very similar to those she describes and I am trying to figure out how I can get all of my colleagues and, more importantly, the university administration to read it.
(That documentary is included as a DVD in Designing Culture.) Balsamo also recounts the development of the interactive museum exhibit XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading, created by the group RED (Research in Experimental Documents) at Xerox PARC. Designing Culture is a manifesto for transforming educational programs and developing learning strategies adequate to the task of inspiring culturally attuned technological imaginations.. She speculates on what it would mean to cultivate imaginations as ingenious in creating new democratic cultural possibilities as they are in creating new kinds of technologies and digital media. One of these entailed the creation of an interactive documentary for the NGO Forum held in conjunction with the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. Balsamo contends that the wellspring of technological innovation is the technological imagination, a quality of mind that enables people to think with technology,
“Designing Culture is a tour de force, offering a unique vision of the possibilities for a contemporary cultural studies. Refusing to separate research from pedagogy, technology from culture, or innovation from imagination, Anne Balsamo maps the concrete complexities of specific design processes, and opens up new ways of thinking about—and teaching—technocultures in relation to broader socio-political fields. Her book is required reading for anyone working with contemporary cultures.”—Lawrence Grossberg, a