Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Tom's Story
"Tom Fisher was born in country Western Australia in 1921 and grew up in Perth during the Depression. He joined the Royal Australian Navy when he was 18 and served in HMAS Sydney, Hobart, Stuart and Quiberon. Demobilised in 1946 he struggled in his early civilian life until his marriage and religion saved him. For many years he worked for the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) while he, and his wife Shirley, raised a family of five children. This is his story."--Back page.
Softboiled
None
Tom Fisher Funeral Director
Biography of Tom Fisher a prominent funeral director in Minot, North Dakota.
Designing Our Way to a Better World
Envisioning what we need, when it doesn’t yet exist: this, Thomas Fisher tells us, is what design does. And if what we need now is a better world—functioning schools, working infrastructure, thriving cities—why not design one? Fisher shows how the principles of design apply to services and systems that seem to evolve naturally, systems whose failures sometimes seem as arbitrary and inevitable as the weather. But the “invisible” systems we depend on for our daily lives (in education, politics, economics, and public health) are designed every bit as much as the products we buy and the environments we inhabit—and are just as susceptible to creative reimagining. Designing Our Way to ...
Design for Personalisation
The principle of personalisation appears in a range of current debates among design professionals, healthcare providers and educationalists about the implications of new technologies and approaches to consumer sovereignty for 'mass' provision. The potential of new technologies implies systems of provision that offer bespoke support to their users, tailoring services and experiences to suit individual needs. The assumption that individual choice automatically increases wellbeing has underlain the re-design of public services. Ubiquitous personalisation in screen-based environments gives individuals the sense that their personality is reflected back at them. Advances in Artificial Intelligence...
The Law Reports
None
The Law Reports
None
Tricky Design
Tricky Things responds to the burgeoning of scholarly interest in the cultural meanings of objects, by addressing the moral complexity of certain designed objects and systems. The volume brings together leading international designers, scholars and critics to explore some of the ways in which the practice of design and its outcomes can have a dark side, even when the intention is to design for the public good. Considering a range of designed objects and relationships, including guns, eyewear, assisted suicide kits, anti-rape devices, passports and prisons, the contributors offer a view of design as both progressive and problematic, able to propose new material and human relationships, yet al...
