Victor Papanek : designer for the real world /
Alison J. Clarke.
- xi, 345 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 1. Design clinic: the early formation of a social designer -- 2. Seduction of the innocent: from bondage fetishism to Frank Lloyd Wright -- 3. Studio 44: mid-century California calling -- 4. The comprehensive designer: toward a new politics of design -- 5. From bionics to racial politics: the making of a cold war designer -- 6. Prescription for rebellion? From styrofoam domes to animatronic women -- 7. Northern lights: the allure of Nordic design activism -- 8. Design for the real world: a call to action -- 9. Pragmatism before politics: social design turns nomadic -- 10. After design for the real world -- Notes -- Index.
"A cultural geneaology of the influence of Victor Papanek on the world of transdisciplinary design"--