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My desk is my castle : exploring personalisation cultures /

The desk is a place of work and of action, but it also serves as a place to exhibit personal things and preferences. Thus it always characterizes in two ways a material and symbolic unity. The desk is not only very informative in itself, but also must always be studied and understood in the context...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brandes, Uta, Erlhoff, Michael, Adrian, Nadine, Dickel, Susanne, Danaher, Tim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Basel : Birkhäuser, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • About This Book; Action Space'Office'; Research Methodology; The Places; Four Representative Business Sectors; The Clusters; Little Number Games; Intercultural Comparison; Object Worlds as Gender Staging; Comparative Analysis of the Business Sectors; The Desk as a Thriller; Personal Office Upgrades; The Desk as a Geodesic Space; The Desk as a Miniature World of Events and Identities: Musings from Hong Kong; Gobalised Desktop Skirmishes? Reporting from the Colonies; Visions; The Concepts of 'Public' and 'Private'; Reflections on Anthropology and Design; From Chessboards to Monopoly Games.
  • The New York ExperiencePotential Practical Design Implications; Bibliography; Authors.