{"product_id":"design-and-agency-john-potvin-9781350513013","title":"Design and Agency: Critical Perspectives on Identities, Histories, and Practices","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesign and Agency\u003c\/i\u003e brings together leading international design scholars and practitioners to address the concept of agency in relation to objects, organisations and people. The authors set out to expand the scope of design history and practice, avoiding the heroic narratives of a typical modernist approach. They consider both how the agents of design construct and express their identities and subjectivities through practice, while also investigating the distinctive contribution of design in the construction of individual identity and subjectivity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Individual chapters explore notions of agency in a range of design disciplines and historical periods, including the agency of women in effecting changes to the design of offices and working practices; the role of Jeffrey Lindsay and Buckminster Fuller in developing the design of a geodesic dome; Le Corbusier's 'Casa Curutchet'; a re-consideration of the gendered historiography of the 'Jugendstil' movement, and Bruce Mau's design exhibitions. Taken together, the essays in \u003ci\u003eDesign and Agency \u003c\/i\u003eprovide a much-needed response to the traditional texts which dominate design history. With a broad chronological span from 1900 to the present, and an equally broad understanding of the term 'design', it expands how we view the discipline, and shows how design itself can be an agent for social, cultural and economic change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Potvin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350513016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350513013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Visual Arts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"John Potvin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46721458602239,"sku":"9781350513013","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_01c4c376-7d10-413e-8ff9-f8b78d28fb7f.jpg?v=1742752929","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/design-and-agency-john-potvin-9781350513013","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}