Victor Papanek

Victor Papanek Designer for the Real World

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Publisher's Synopsis

In Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World, Alison Clarke explores the social design movement through the life of its leading pioneer, the Austrian American designer, theorist, and activist Victor Papanek. Papanek's 1971 best seller, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change has been translated into 22 languages and never fallen out of print. Its politics of social design, anti-corporatism, and environmental sustainability have found renewed pertinence in the twenty-first century and dominate the agendas of design schools today. Drawing extensively on previously unexplored archival sources, Clarke uncovers and contextualizes the movement's controversial origins and contradictions.

Book information

ISBN: 9780262044943
Publisher: The MIT Press
Imprint: The MIT Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 745.2
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xi, 345
Weight: 988g
Height: 186mm
Width: 237mm
Spine width: 28mm