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Design Thinking Research
This book summarizes the results of Design Thinking Research carried out at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA and at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. Offering readers a closer look at Design Thinking, its innovation processes and methods, the book covers topics ranging from how to design ideas, methods and technologies, to creativity experiments and wicked problem solutions, to creative collaboration in the real world, and the interplay of designers and engineers. But the topics go beyond this in their detailed exploration of Design Thinking and its use in IT systems engineering fields, or even from a management perspective. The authors show how these methods...
Design Strategy
A new approach to addressing the contemporary world’s most difficult challenges, such as climate change and poverty. Conflicts over “the problem” and “the solution” plague the modern world and land problem solvers in what has been called “wicked problem territory”—a social space with high levels of conflict over problems and solutions. In Design Strategy, Nancy C. Roberts proposes design as a strategy of problem solving to close the gap between an existing state and a desired state. Utilizing this approach, designers and change agents are better able to minimize self-defeating conflicts over problems and solutions, break the logjam of opposition, and avoid the traps that lock...
Museum Transformations
MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION Edited By ANNIE E. COOMBES AND RUTH B. PHILLIPS Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization addresses contemporary approaches to decolonization, greater democratization, and revisionist narratives in museum exhibition and program development around the world. The text explores how museums of art, history, and ethnography responded to deconstructive critiques from activists and poststructuralist and postcolonial theorists, and provided models for change to other types of museums and heritage sites. The volume's first set of essays discuss the role of the museum in the narration of difficult histories, and how altering the social attitudes and political structures that enable oppression requires the recognition of past histories of political and racial oppression and colonization in museums. Subsequent essays consider the museum's new roles in social action and discuss experimental projects that work to change power dynamics within institutions and leverage digital technology and new media.
Reliability and Ecological Aspects of Photovoltaic Modules
Photovoltaic (PV) solar energy is expected to be the world's largest source of electricity in the future. To enhance the long-term reliability of PV modules, a thorough understanding of failure mechanisms is of vital importance. In addition, it is important to address the potential downsides to this technology. These include the hazardous chemicals needed for manufacturing solar cells, especially for thin-film technologies, and the large number of PV modules disposed of at the end of their lifecycles. This book discusses the reliability and environmental aspects of PV modules.
Research Handbook of Policy Design
This visionary Research Handbook presents the state of the art in research on policy design. By conceiving policy design both as a theoretical and a methodological framework, it provides scholars and practitioners with guidance on understanding policy problems and devising accurate solutions.
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies, 4 Volume Set
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies is a multi-volume reference work that represents a state-of-the-art survey of the burgeoning field of museum studies. Featuring original essays by leading international museum experts and emerging scholars, readings cover all aspects of museum theory, practice, debates, and the impact of technologies. The four volumes in the series, divided thematically, offer in-depth treatment of all major issues relating to museum theory; historical and contemporary museum practice; mediations in art, design, and architecture; and the transformations and challenges confronting the museum. In addition to invaluable surveys of current scholarship, the entries include a rich and diverse panoply of examples and original case studies to illuminate the various perspectives. Unprecedented for its in-depth topic coverage and breadth of scholarship, the multi-volume International Handbooks of Museum Studies is an indispensable resource for the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society.
Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies
Articles in this volume focus on theories and histories of comparative literature and the field of comparative cultural studies. Contributors are Kwaku Asante-Darko on African postcolonial literature; Hendrik Birus on Goethe's concept of world literature; Amiya Dev on comparative literature in India; Marian Galik on interliterariness; Ernst Grabovszki on globalization, new media, and world literature; Jan Walsh Hokenson on the culture of the context; Marko Juvan on literariness; Karl S.Y. Kao on metaphor; Kristof Jacek Kozak on comparative literature in Slovenia; Manuela Mourao on comparative literature in the USA; Jola Skulj on cultural identity; Slobodan Sucur on period styles and theory; Peter Swirski on popular and highbrow literature; Antony Tatlow on textual anthropology; William H. Thornton on East/West power politics in cultural studies; Steven Totosy on comparative cultural studies; and Xiaoyi Zhou and Q.S. Tong on comparative literature in China. The papers are followed by an index and a bibliography of scholarship in comparative literature and cultural studies compiled by Steven Totosy, Steven Aoun, and Wendy C. Nielsen.
Emotions- und Affektsoziologie
Unser Zusammenleben ist auf vielfältige Weise affektiv geprägt: Wir lassen uns von der Freude anderer anstecken, fühlen uns abgestoßen von Hass und sozialer Kälte oder fühlen uns cool im Verbund mit anderen. Emotionen, Gefühle und Affekte moderieren auf spürbare Weise das Verhältnis zwischen Individuum und Gesellschaft. Das Lehrbuch gibt einen Überblick über die soziologische Emotions- und Affektforschung. Neben der Entwicklung und den Grundkonzepten emotionssoziologischer Theoriebildung, werden empirische Forschungsmöglichkeiten und gegenwärtige Trends aufgezeigt. Um das weite Feld der Emotions- und Affektforschung gegenstandnah abzustecken, werden einige zentrale Forschungsfelder vorgestellt und einzelne distinkte Gefühle in ihrer sozialen Funktion diskutiert. Gerade Studierenden soll der Einstieg erleichtert werden, indem die Beiträge Kernthemen der Emotions- und Affektforschung in Relation zu zentralen Paradigmen und Zeitdiagosen der Soziologie besprechen. Auf diesem Weg adressiert die Einführung Potentiale und Schwierigkeiten des sozialwissenschaftlichen Studiums der Gefühle.
Digital Leadership
David Jonathan Wagner erstellt einen Überblick über erfolgreiches Führungsverhalten und erforderliche Führungskompetenzen im Zeitalter der digitalen Transformation, die er mittels Expertenbefragung und durch Literaturrecherche erhoben hat. Daraus leitet er konkrete Umsetzungsempfehlungen für Führungskräfte auf dem Weg zu Digital Leadern ab.
