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Encountering Things brings together leading design scholars to explore the relationship between thing theory and design, exploring production processes and offering an engaging, theoretical perspective about the social and cultural lives of objects.

Focusing on the themes of process and product, the contributors investigate the productive interplay between the activity of design and the objects that design uses and produces. Chapters span the design disciplines and essays examine the processes by which objects, things, and artifacts are made; the lives of design objects; and things in their cultural contexts. Theoretical discussion is encouraged by in-depth case studies of things themselves. Each chapter includes an informational sidebar per essay and a useful glossary of key terms.

• List of illustrationsp. vii
• List of contributorsp. ix
• Introduction: Design and theories of thingsp. 1
• Filled with wonder: The enchanting android from cams to algorithmsp. 19
• When objects fail: Unconcealing things in design writing and criticismp. 35
• The practically living weight of convenient thingsp. 47
• Big things: The vibrant culture of boomboxesp. 59
• Theorizing the hart kuy&obar;: The ritual disposal of needles in early modern Japanp. 65
• Nothingness in April Greiman's Does It Make Sense?p. 81
• Making things, thingsp. 95
• Distributing stresses: The development and use of the Eames Dining Chair Metal (DCM)p. 109
• What design tells us about objects and thingsp. 123
• The modern American telephone as a contested technological thing, 1920-39p. 133
• Memory, materiality, and the Montreal Signs Projectp. 149
• Connecting things: Broadening design to include systems, platforms, and product-service ecologiesp. 153
• Designing things as "poor" substitutesp. 167
• The graphic thing: Ambiguity, dysfunction, and excess in designed objectsp. 179
• Agency and counteragency of materials: A story of copperp. 191
• Afterword: Encountering designp. 203
• Indexp. 213