Technical Functions: On the Use and Design of Artefacts

by P. E. Vermaas, Wybo Houkes, Pieter E. Vermaas

Book Overview

This book is about the functions of technical artefacts, material objects made to serve practical purposes; objects ranging from tablets of Aspirin to Concorde, from wooden clogs to nuclear submarines. More precisely, the book is about usinganddesigningartefacts, aboutwhatitmeanstoascribefunctionstothem, and about the relations between using, designing and ascribing functions. In the following pages, we present a detailed account that shows how strong...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 904813899X
• ISBN13: 9789048138999
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"