The Shape of Things (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Shape of Things Tuesday, August 4 2009.

• This book presents for the first time in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher, Vilm Flusser. It puts forward the view that our future depends on design. In a series of insightful essays on such ordinary 'things' as wheels, carpets, pots, umbrellas and tents, Flusser emphasizes the interrelationship between art and science, theology and technology, and archaeology and architecture. Just as formal creativity has produced both weapons of destruction and great works of art, Flusser believed the shape of things (and the designs behind them) represent both a threat and an opportunity for the future.