Design by use the everyday metamorphosis of things - Brandes, Uta 1949-; Stich, Sonja; Wender, Miriam (Birkhäuser, 2009)
Biographical note: Uta Brandes is a professor of design research and gender and design at the Cologne International School of Design (KISD)
Description for reader: Jointly published with the Board of International Research in Design
Main description: Diese Publikation erforscht und analysiert eine ganz besondere Form von Design: das ebenso normale wie wunderbare Phänomen, dass Menschen ohne Designanspruch bereits gestaltete Dinge umnutzen, anders nutzen, im besten Sinne «missbrauchen»
Main description: This publication explores a very special kind of design—the phenomenon, as normal as it is wonderful, in which people with no formal training in design take things that have already been designed and reuse them, convert them to new uses
Keywords: Kreativität; Verwendung; Gebrauchsgegenstand; Forschung; Industriedesign; Fiktionale Darstellung