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This publication explores and analyzes a very special kind of design – the phenomenon, as normal as it is wonderful, in which people with no formal training in design take things that have already been designed and reuse them, convert them to new uses, in short, "misuse" them in the very best sense of the word. Non-intentional design (NID) goes on every day, in every area of life, in every region of the world. Redesign through reuse makes things multifunctional and cleverly combines them to generate new functions. It is often reversible, resource-friendly, improvisational, innovative, and economical. It can become a source of inspiration for design, provided professional designers look up and take notice of what actually happens to all the things they design when they are used.
Uta Brandes ist Professorin für Design-Forschung und für Gender und Design an der Köln International School of Design (KISD)
Fluid Design and Research
A View to other Disciplines
Related Strategies
Intentional Re-Design
Non-Intentional Design – Empirically
The Subjects: Objects and Strategies of Usage Re-Definition
The Objects
The Process of Discovery
Non-Intentional Design in Public Spaces
Design between Subject and Object
Design as Applied Philosophy
Learning Processes and Transformation
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