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  • Organizational Aesthetics

    Artful Visual Representations of Business and Organizations

    Series series Routledge Focus on Business and Management
    Organizational Aesthetics attempts to reconstruct artful representations of the organizational world and businesspeople. It looks at organizations and management through the eyes of artists, painters, and photographers and decodes meanings contained in artistic messages, grasping the aesthetic perceptions of the world of management and organization. Paintings and photos are analysed using ... Read more

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  • Advances in Information Systems Development

    Exploring New Horizons and Opportunities

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This volume features a selection of the best papers from the 32nd International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2024), which focused on “Harnessing Opportunities: Reshaping ISD in the Post-COVID-19 and Generative AI Era”.The significantly expanded and revised contributions in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of the transformative potential of technology and shed ... Read more

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  • Making Design Theory

    Series series Design Thinking, Design Theory
    A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design.Tendencies toward “academization” of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms. In this book, Johan Redström offers a new approach to theory development in design research–one that is ... Read more

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    by Glenn Parsons ...
    The Philosophy of Design is an introduction to the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the contemporary practice of design. The first book to systematically examine design from the perspective of contemporary philosophy, it offers a broad perspective, ranging across key philosophical areas such as aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics and ethics.The first part of the book explores central ... Read more

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  • Thought in the Act

    Passages in the Ecology of Experience

    “Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To dance: a thinking in movement. To paint: a thinking through color. To perceive in the everyday: a thinking of the world’s varied ways of affording itself.” —from Thought in the ActCombining philosophy and aesthetics, Thought in the Act is a unique exploration of creative practice as a form of thinking. Challenging the common opposition ... Read more

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  • Research Methods for Architecture

    While fundamentally a design discipline, architectural education requires an element of history and theory, grouped under the term ‘research’. However, many students struggle with this part of their course. This practical handbook provides the necessary grounding in this subject, addressing essential questions about what research in architecture can be.The first part of the book is a general guide ... Read more

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  • Reframing Visual Social Science

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