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Media training since the early 1990s, the housing crisis faced by New Labour when it took power in 1997 once again pushed the urban agenda at the centre of the British political arena. The construction of more than 4 million dwellings is then deemed necessary to meet latent demand, and large cities continue to turn to suburbs. It is in this climate that Tony Blair appoints architect Richard Rogers as head of the Urban Task Force, who is responsible for sketching the country's future urban policies. Published in 1999, its rapport/1 is explicit: it is thanks to urban design that the country will make its cities attractive. If the government attaches so much importance to this criterion, it is that the projects of the last 30 years reflect more a cloning trend than a desire to encourage the emergence of new practices that would enable the "tensions between singularity and uniformity", between "originality and order", to be managed. ; Fortement médiatisée dès le début des années 1990, la crise du logement à laquelle est confronté le New Labour lorsqu'il accède au pouvoir en 1997 propulse une nouvelle fois l'agenda urbain sur le devant de la scène politique britannique. La construction de plus de 4 millions de logements est alors jugée nécessaire pour répondre à la demande latente, et les grandes villes continuent de se vider au profit des suburbs. C'est dans ce climat que Tony Blair nomme l'architecte Richard Rogers à la tête de l'Urban Task Force, chargée d'esquisser les futures politiques urbaines du pays. Publié en 1999, son rapport /1 est explicite : c'est grâce à l'urban design que le pays rendra à ses villes leur attractivité. Si le gouvernement accorde tant d'importance à ce critère, c'est que les projets des trente dernières années reflètent davantage une tendance au clonage qu'un souci de favoriser l'émergence de nouvelles pratiques qui permettraient de gérer les "tensions entre singularité et uniformité", entre "originalité et ordre".

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Von der Konservendose bis zum Spielzeug, von der Fernmeldetechnik bis zur Luftfahrt: im 20. Jahrhundert haben Kriege Herausforderungen an Designer und Gestalter gestellt. Funktionalismus, Kosten- und Materialeffizienz sowie simple Handhabbarkeit waren dabei ebenso wichtig wie die Rücksicht auf nationale Kulturhorizonte und ideologische oder politische Vorgaben. Wie in kaum einem anderen Bereich menschlicher Interaktion entscheidet im Krieg gutes Design womöglich über Leben und Tod des Benutzers. Design ist nicht nur Diener des Krieges, sondern beide haben auch einiges gemeinsam: Design und Krieg sind – wenn auch auf sehr unterschiedliche Art – gestaltend tätig und nehmen Einfluss auf Materialien, auf Nationalidentitäten und Landschaften. Die AutorInnen untersuchen konkrete Formgebungen und ordnen Designobjekte materialhistorisch ein. Sie fragen außerdem nach der ethischen und sozialen Verantwortung von Design und leisten damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zu aktuellen Diskussionen

This paper intends to present and discuss some concepts and methods in the area of organization design, showing how a new vision can bring a significant upgrading to the classical methodologies. In this case it is demonstrated how classical design and design thinking can be used in organizational design theories to create an organization design to be applied to different kind of organizations. The implementation of these techniques have already been implemented by the researchers in terms of a practical way to some different projects in different economic sectors (tourism sector, wine industries, design companies and non governmental organizations). The present case is referred to the first implementation, an experimental application to a social project in a NGO - "Bairro Criativo" - with interesting results. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

This paper intends to present and discuss some concepts and methods in the area of organization design, showing how a new vision can bring a significant upgrading to the classical methodologies. In this case it is demonstrated how classical design and design thinking can be used in organizational design theories to create an organization design to be applied to different kind of organizations. The implementation of these techniques have already been implemented by the researchers in terms of a practical way to some different projects in different economic sectors (tourism sector, wine industries, design companies and non governmental organizations). The present case is referred to the first implementation, an experimental application to a social project in a NGO - "Bairro Criativo" - with interesting results. ; peer-reviewed

Aus d. Verlagsmeldung: Die Funktion und die Einsatzbereiche des Designs in Unternehmen haben sich in den letzten Dekaden grundlegend geändert und deutlich erweitert. Designer, die heute und morgen auf hohem gestalterischen Niveau und in Führungspositionen erfolgreich arbeiten wollen, müssen in der Lage sein, ihre Rolle im Zusammenhang mit wirtschaftlichen Prozessen und technologischen Innovationen zu überdenken und darzustellen. Dies gilt erst recht für alle Gestalter, die einen weiter gehenden gesellschaftlichen Anspruch mit ihrer Arbeit verbinden.

This book deals with ship design and in particular with methodologies of the preliminary design of ships. The book is complemented by a basic bibliography and five appendices with useful updated charts for the selection of the main dimensions and other basic characteristics of different types of ships (Appendix A), the determination of hull form from the data of systematic hull form series (Appendix B), the detailed description of the relational method for the preliminary estimation of ship weights (Appendix C), a brief review of the historical evolution of shipbuilding science and technology from the prehistoric era to date (Appendix D) and finally a historical review of regulatory developments of ship's damage stability to date (Appendix E). The book can be used as textbook for ship design courses or as additional reading for university or college students of naval architecture courses and related disciplines; it may also serve as a reference book for naval architects, practicing engineers of related disciplines and ship officers, who like to enter the ship design field systematically or to use practical methodologies for the estimation of ship's main dimensions and of other ship main properties and elements of ship design.

Critical contemporary discourses on extinction, climate change and planetary boundaries are needed to counter and reject our current ways of living on this planet. But they often end badly. Therefore, we also need to tell the stories that create openings and generate more desirable alternatives. This paper contributes to the effort of resituating design as less anthropocentric and much more of a multispecies affair. Following scholars such as Donna Haraway, Timothy Morton, Anna Tsing and John Law, this text does so by unpacking the notion of 'multispecies worlding' for speculative design practices that involve other living entities. By carrying multiplicities into design processes and rethinking how other species can become a more deliberate part of our (re)worlding efforts, this text articulates the importance of advancing decolonial design aims to generate interspecies harmonies rather than reinforcing oppressive relations. The annotated illustrations and examples of multispecies design projects that appear in this paper involve an additional effort in identifying 'big-enough' stories and already existing multispecies design speculations. As such, this work offers merely one collection of enactments that can allow further worlding and further design work. Such a repertoire of speculative multispecies design work can thereby knot together different realities, from different actors, that can propose and embody other kinds of worlding relations between species. They thereby slowly but steadily break down existing grand narratives that seem all-explanatory to speculate about different ways in which humans and other species already make worlds together.