{"product_id":"9783692020051","title":"What was design? Declarations and definitions from a century of creative quest","description":"What was design? is a quick starter to one of modernity’s most contested terms. In its brief but meteoric career, “design” was subject to vast controversy. Celebrated as an engine of change, denounced as a driving force of commercialization, and regularly lamented as overused, design remains a concept whose true meaning is still being sought. While answers to the question “What is design?” are constantly shifting, the time has come for a retrospective. This book looks back, presenting a century of design thinking in its most compact form: a collection of bold quotes.\n\nWhat was design? Declarations and definitions from a century of creative quest pits 87 historical one-sentence answers from practitioners, theorists, and philosophers against one another. The result is a web of radical short-form definitions that remain strikingly contradictory in their references. This selection is accompanied by an essay from Florian Walzel, exploring the deeper reasons behind the conceptual ambiguity of design.","brand":"IDEA BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52953855820085,"sku":"9783692020051","price":32.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0870\/9023\/3653\/files\/c27e8834-9ffe-4344-849d-a0b342305f55.jpg?v=1780416557","url":"https:\/\/librairiesanstitre.com\/products\/9783692020051","provider":"librairie sans titre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}