My Desk is my Castle : Exploring Personalization Cultures.
by
Brandes, Uta.
Title
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My Desk is my Castle : Exploring Personalization Cultures.
Author
:
Brandes, Uta.
ISBN
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9783034610421
Personal Author
:
Brandes, Uta.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (320 pages)
Series
:
Birkhäuser Generalstandingorder
Contents
:
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 Experience -- Potential Practical Design Implications -- Bibliography -- Authors.
Abstract
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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 of its cultural, gender-specific, and field-related surroundings. The focus of this study is a comparative analysis of the use of desks. Desks in insurance companies, banks, administrative authorities, call centers, and design studios in twelve countries on all continents were studied. This publication presents the results in the form of extensive visual material, empirical analyses, and critical essays. The study was carried out by the Köln International School of Design (KISD) in collaboration with universities in Hong Kong; New York; Seoul; Taipei; Curitiba, Brazil; Pune, India; Auckland; Milan; and Fukuoka, Japan.
Local Note
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subject Term
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Desks -- Psychological aspects.
Interior decoration -- Human factors -- Pictorial works.
Interior decoration -- Human factors.
Office decoration -- Psychological aspects -- Pictorial works.
Office decoration -- Psychological aspects.
Personal space.
Work environment -- Psychological aspects.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Added Author
:
Erlhoff, Michael.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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IYTE Library | E-Book | 1247874-1001 | NK2195 .O4 -- M93 2011 EB | Ebrary E-Books |