Ron Wakkary is Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology and founder of the Everyday Design Studio at Simon Fraser University and Professor and Chair of Design for More Than Human-Centred Worlds in Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Design
Chapter 2 Prologue: Photobox, Long-Living Chair, and Olly
Chapter 2: Nomadic Practices
Chapter 3 Prologue: Fairphone, Pocket Receivers, and Kar-a-Sutra
Chapter 3: Designing Artifacts, Objects, and Products
Part II: Things
Chapter 4 Prologue: Phototrope, +Lichtlijn, New Faces, New Identities, Prayer Companion, and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Chapter 4: Things Are Interconnected and Transformative
Chapter 5 Prologue: Tilting Bowl, Being the Machine, Obscura 1C Digital Camera, Morse Things, Burgundian Black Collaboratory, and Mineral Accretion Factory: Underwater Table
Chapter 5: Things are Relational and Vital
Part III: Designer
Chapter 6 Prologue: Living in a Prototype, Greenscreen Dress, Supersurface, and Children Village
Chapter 6: The Designer as Biography
Chapter 7 Prologue: Anti-biographies and Lifepatch
Chapter 7: The Constituency of the Designer
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Designing-with
Notes
References
Index