John Thackara

The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England

2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Thackara, John.

In the bubble : designing in a complex world /John Thackara.
p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-262-20157-7 (alk. paper)
1. Engineering design. 2. Design, Industrial. I. Title.

TA174.T52 2005
620'.0042 dc22 2004062531

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Acknowledgments

They say that it takes a village to raise a child. The same goes for this book; it s the result of encounters and shared experiences over several years that gave rise to the questions, first raised at Doors of Perception conferences, that are now addressed here. The most insightful of these questions are not mine: They come from the late Peter Dormer, John Chris Jones, Derrick de Kerckhove, Jouke Kleerebezem, Ezio Manzini, Caroline Nevejan, Jogi Panghaal, Chee Pearlman, Aditya Dev Sood, and Marco Susani. A number...