Product Design, Technology, and Social Change

Product Design, Technology, and Social ChangeExamines the relationship between products, consumption, sustainability, politics and social movements. This 'pocket history' surveys product design from the agricultural revolution and the birth of cities, through industrialisation, and a digital design revolution. 58 b&w illus. Read the Foreword by Don A. Norman here Read 'Product Design and Its Impact' from Part 1: Product Design in Society: An Introduction here

the place of the real on the lived body

It reads a small number of interviews in close detail to place them in the context of the Troubles and to draw out the imaginative ways that interviewees evoke the experience of growing up in Northern Ireland and punk’s intervention in that complex conjuncture

The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement

paying special attention to her unorthodox progression through a variety of fields

by editor Lisa Peschel

but disappointed in practice

constructed on the basis of fragments of stories already in existence

the myth of a multiculturalEngland and more

short fictions

Revolution in the Echo Chamber is a sociohistorical analysis of British and US radio and audio drama from 1919 to the present day

Spacing Ireland explores questions of ‘space’ and ‘place’ to understand the nature of major social

This wide-ranging and extensively researched work reviews the way in which the British army exploited the potential of railways from the ‘dawn of the railway age’ to the outbreak of the First World War