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ISSN: 2515-138X As technology and the times change, so has the nature of work. Along with the rise of capitalism has come the invention and increase of bullshit jobs. This paper proposes that commercial design work is a bullshit job as it serves no real practical purpose; rather, it is a political tool to promote consumerism. Furthermore, such jobs do not appear to provide for designers' psychological needs that would contribute to career and life satisfaction. Therefore, designers often face the dilemma of having to choose between work that provides a livelihood and more meaningful work that aligns with their personal values and enhances their lives. It is suggested that designers can use their skills to work within the system to promote change so that they can make a living doing meaningful work that contributes positively to society and their own psychological needs.

ISSN: 2515-138X As technology and the times change, so has the nature of work. Along with the rise of capitalism has come the invention and increase of bullshit jobs. This paper proposes that commercial design work is a bullshit job as it serves no real practical purpose; rather, it is a political tool to promote consumerism. Furthermore, such jobs do not appear to provide for designers' psychological needs that would contribute to career and life satisfaction. Therefore, designers often face the dilemma of having to choose between work that provides a livelihood and more meaningful work that aligns with their personal values and enhances their lives. It is suggested that designers can use their skills to work within the system to promote change so that they can make a living doing meaningful work that contributes positively to society and their own psychological needs.

This paper constitutes an attempt to both examine and illustrate the uniqueness of the Empire style furniture during the Napoleonic times under the charismatic influence of the most notable architects and designers of the era Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Leonard Fontaine and their partners. The reason for this research is the selection and analysis of two outstanding pieces of furniture, from a utility, design and aesthetics perspective, created for special reasons by the above-mentioned designers for the famous Tuileries Palace, the building of prominent political and personal importance for Napoleon Bonaparte. Through the research of these two different case studies / objects will emerge the specific morphological, aesthetic, historical, political and cultural elements that shaped the famous Empire style, while we will attempt to discuss and finally understand the design logic of its two characteristic, most representative designers.

In order to alleviate poverty throughout the World government and non‐ government organisations provide aid in the form of essential household products. These products typically include cook stoves, water filters and LED lights. However, evidence suggests that these products are not always suitable for Low Income Economies (LIEs) which has resulted in a number of high profile product failures. In response to the growing need for appropriate New Product Development (NPD), this paper presents the development of a tool to assist industrial designers create appropriate and long lasting solutions for those in poverty. Data was collected from the analysis of existing products, a survey, interviews with NGOs & industrial designers and a field trip to Myanmar. The results were used to identify attributes required for effective, long‐lasting product design. This was used to create a tool for designers which was found to enhance understanding of appropriate NPD for LIEs.

In order to alleviate poverty throughout the World government and non‐government organisations provide aid in the form of essential household products. These products typically include cook stoves, water filters and LED lights. However, evidence suggests that these products are not always suitable for Low Income Economies (LIEs) which has resulted in a number of high profile product failures. In response to the growing need for appropriate New Product Development (NPD), this paper presents the development of a tool to assist industrial designers create appropriate and long lasting solutions for those in poverty. Data was collected from the analysis of existing products, a survey, interviews with NGOs & industrial designers and a field trip to Myanmar. The results were used to identify attributes required for effective, long‐lasting product design. This was used to create a tool for designers which was found to enhance understanding of appropriate NPD for LIEs.

Marked by the scientific discovery of atomic energy, the nuclear age, which spans the twentieth century, has changed the nature of culture as well as the landscape. Despite recent talks on nuclear disarmament, the dread of nuclear arms production, proliferation, and waste storage is pervasive at both global and local levels, haunting governments, communities, and individuals alike. Nuclear sites concern not only scientists and politicians but also environmental designers. The need to evoke a cultural discourse, protect future generations, reveal or conceal radioactive burial sites, and recycle retired installations engenders the participation of artists and designers. How do designers intersect with these hellish places? Do we have a potent role in addressing this conundrum? In what follows, I confront the consumption and design of today's most daunting places - the landscapes of nuclear and radioactive material production, processing, testing, and burial.

Social design[1], design activism, service design, and design for good are some of the buzzwords being used amongst designers, institutions, and organisations to describe a form of design that seeks to investigate the designer's role in society by tackling community, political, and social issues. Social design is meant to pave the way for design to move away from a Eurocentric discourse, engage communities, spark local innovation, and help increase collaboration between communities, policy makers, and institutions to bring about social change and ideas through design. But there are a number of issues and questions that arise: Where is the context? Where is the shifting of the discourse? Why do we continue to design at rather than design with? What are the true intentions of these projects? How can we measure the results? Where are the designers from the non-Western world? What does community participation mean? In this presentation, I would like to critique the discipline of social design by discussing the issues through case studies and discourse, and offer solutions on how designers and social design projects can truly begin to engage in debates and shift the discourse to be more inclusive of designers around the world. [1] Throughout this presentation, I will be using the term 'social design'.

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Die Reihe "Magier der Mode" aus dem Verlag Schirmer/Mosel bietet eine Einführung in Leben und Werk der bedeutendsten zeitgenössischen Modeschöpfer. Einem biographischen Essay folgt ein etwa 60seitiger Bildteil mit farbigen Modefotos, in denen charakteristische Kreationen des jeweiligen Couturiers gezeigt werden. Eine Auflistung der biographischen Daten und ausführliche Bildlegenden beschließen die Bände. Im vorliegenden Band wird Christian Dior (1905-1957), Schöpfer des "New Look" vorgestellt (vgl. "Schiaparelli", "Versace", "Yves Saint Laurent" in dieser Nr.). Bei der großen Nachfrage nach Titeln zur Mode können diese vergleichsweise preiswerten Bände empfohlen werden. (2) (br)

"There is a need in the higher education arena for a book that responds to the need for using technology in a classroom of tech-savvy students. This book is filled with illustrative examples of questions and teaching activities that use classroom response systems from a variety of disciplines (with a discipline index). The book also incorporates results from research on the effectiveness of the technology for teaching. Written for instructional designers and re-designers as well as faculty across disciplines."--Jacket.

Schematic simulation is the name of a method for studying system specifications and explicating implications of the specifications for subsystem design. The method was developed in response to the expressed need of the designers of a Terminal Air Traffic Control (TATC) laboratory system. The method provides a model of the projected system and a procedure by which the designers can view system operations from the standpoint of the eventual operators. An illustration is given of how schematic simulation was used.

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Market designers work as social engineers. They create institutional structures to enforce the assumptions of theoretical market mechanisms. Despite much work on performative effects of economics, sociology has not analyzed the feasibility of designers' theoretical blueprints. This article suggests that this may be done by identifying assumptions that derail the mechanism if they are not enforced. Sociologists then need to trace obstacles to their realization in practices of implementation. Blueprints are infeasible if the assumptions cannot be enforced either by themselves or jointly. To illustrate the approach, the article identifies one such assumption and traces its impact on a historical experiment of market design: the creation of markets for transmission capacity in California's electricity markets. To realize the design's explicit assumptions, designers built institutions that violated an implicit uniformity assumption and created opportunities for manipulations. Since the design's assumptions could not be realized simultaneously, it was infeasible.