Citing design as a fluid and high-contested term, Huppatz begins his four-volume set on design in mid-nineteenth-century England and specifically with texts and writers associated with The
Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations of 1851. Volume 1 notes that for nineteenth and twentieth-century designers looking through the prism of science and technology that was
rapidly transforming people’s lives there were utopian and dystopian possibilities. The remaining three volumes encompass the scope of design activities in the late twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries and adopt a thematic rather than chronological approach in which design is acknowledged as an emerging domain of knowledge with its own specificity, problems, and shared
assumptions. Contributors come from a variety of disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthropology, management studies, history, philosophy, and cultural studies. Annotation ©2016
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