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Index
A
Ackoff, R. L. 218 actor-network theory 111, 161 Adorno, Theodor 293 aesthetic values 342 affective design 145 Airbus A380 241 Alexander, Christopher 282 alienability 134 alienation of labor 276 alternative realities 299 ambient web 176, 179 analysis 221 Anders, Gunther 181 appropriation 305 architect
eco-social 289 production 289 star 7, 289 architectural design 1, 318 production 280 representation 287 Arendt, Hannah 263 artifact
dual nature of technical 23, 31, 303 freedom of 96 intentionality of 93 moral agency of 93 artifactology 154 artifactual systems 262 artistic
innovation 274 production 279 assessment of uncertainty 127 ATR 146
Aunger, Robert 69 authority 280 authorship and design 3 autonomy 289
B
balloon frame 308 Basalla, George 65 Bauhaus 6
Behnisch & Behnisch 290 Bertalanffy, L. von 218, 222 biological design 233, 235 biology, human 198 biomimetic engineering 175 black box 177 Borgmann, Albert 155 Bostrom, Nick 215 Breazeal, Cynthia 143, 152 building codes 281 culture 275 built environment 341
C
Carlson, Allen 345, 347
categorization 210
causal explanation 73
Challenger space shuttle accident 5, 121
choice, feeling of 250
civic environmentalism 330
client 3, 108
code
building 281 form-based 283 genetic 237 technical 115 commodification 138 common sense 319 communication 40, 44
component 234, 238 computer 138, 210 Connecticut Museum of Science and Exploration 290 construction plan 236 constructivist technology studies 111 consumers 41 consumption 305 contract in architecture 274 control at a distance 279 converging technologies 2, 186 counterfeit naturalism 265 creative using 41 critical theory of technology 110 culture
building 275 production 273 technical 120 cyborg 187, 192, 203, 214
D
Davidson, Donald 33 Dawkins, Richard 62, 69 democracy 203, 334 design 22, 26, 31, 32, 39, 42, 219 affective 145 affective robot 149, 152 and authorship 3
and intentionality 22, 31, 40, 43, 51, 106
architectural 1, 318
biological 233, 235
criteria 318
discourse on 247
effective 145
engineering 1, 71, 77
ethical values in 12, 77
expert 299
interface 183
natural 255
normal 79
plans 40
problem, nature of 253 product 40 professional 42 radical 79
requirements transformation 219 robot 143 space 115
socio-technical system 237 urban 9, 333, 349 design-construction barrier 283 designer
fallacy 51, 128
intent 53 proximate 107 deskilling 276 determinism genetic 198 technological 250 device paradigm 155 dialogue 169 dignity, human 198 discourse
analysis 248 on design 247
on technological development 248 disease
complex 200 Mendelian 200 DNA 199
dual nature of technical artifacts 23, 31, 303
duality of design and using 28
due care 125
Duffy, Brian 148, 153
Dupuy, Jean-Pierre 183
E
eco-social architect 289 effective design 145 efficient production 279 elitism 300 Emery, F. 260 engineering
design 1, 71, 77 ethics 253 genetic 134 systems 8, 219 enhancement 186 genetic 197 environment, natural 341 epigenetic factors 200 ethical values in design 12, 77 ethics of technology 5, 9, 12, 77, 91, 99 etiological theory of function 28 evolutionary theories of technology 61, 306 blindness 64 differential fitness 64 genetic reproduction 64 heritability 64
mutation and recombination 64 phenotypic variation 64 exlusion cost 135 expert
designer 299 knowledge 299 technological 287
expertise 42 explanation causal 73 intentional 73 extended culture industry 167
F
feeling of choice 250 Feenberg, Andrew 112, 150, 303, 308 fit, of space 322 Ford Pinto case 125 for-ness of artifacts 22, 24 freedom 96 of artifacts 96 function 218, 223, 234, 239,
301, 346 etiological 28 intended 235, 240 proper 28 system 28, 34 thick notion 303 thin notion 303 tight fit solution 303 functional kind 29, 34 functionalism 234 functionality 302
loose fit solution 303
G
genes 197 genetic code 237 determinism 198 engineering 134 enhancement 197 reproduction 64
use-restriction technologies 135 genetically modified food 176 globalization 182 goal 235, 240 Graves, Michael 323 greatest happiness principle 289 Guggenheim Museum, New York City 326
H
Hadid, Zaha 290 Harvey, William 225 health 289
Heidegger, Martin 161 Hooke, Robert 173 house construction 302, 306
human
biology 198 dignity 198 nature 198 systems 262 human-artifact relationship 123 humanization 210 humankind 185, 191 Huxley, T.H. 261
I
Ihde, Don 94 immortality 188, 201 improper using 42 information society 187 information technology 156 innovation 61, 252 artistic 274 institution of control 282 institutions 131 instrumentalization 112, 308 intellectual property 136 intention 287, 301 intentional action 22
description 22, 23, 29, 31 explanation 73 intentionalism 40 intentionality 93
and design 22, 31, 40, 43, 51, 106 of artifacts 93 intentioned 302 interface design 183 International Style 279 Internet 138 intuitive judgment 278
J
Jacobs, Jane 350 Johnson, Deborah 12
K
kaizen 252 Kanda, Takayuki 146 Kant, Immanuel 180, 342 Kroes, Peter 301
L
Latour, Bruno 92, 94, 97 layperson 128
Le Corbusier 7 Lessig, Lawrence 139 linear perspective 287 lived experience 250
M
magic 184
malfunction 27, 28, 34 Man 210
and difference 213 and identity 214 and relation 213 Marcuse, Herbert 137 materializing 297 McDonough, William 254 Media Lab Europe 152 mediation 92 Meijers, Anthonie 301 Meyer, Hannes 6 meme 69 metamedia 160 MIT Media Lab 152 Mitcham, Carl 154 Mokyr, Joel 66 moral agency of artifacts 93 multistable possibilities for technology 54
N
nanotechnology 174 natural
environment 341 kind 27, 29 law 133 system 261 nature 173, 341 of humans 198 of products 276 new urbanism 330 and design 336 Nietzsche, Friedrich 193 normal configuration 79 normalization of deviance 124 normative practice 274 noumenal technology 180
O
obsolescence, planned 139 open source 165 operational principle 79 originality 251
P
Parfit, Derek 30 Pelli, Cesar 290 personification 210 physical description 22, 23, 31 policy 169
politics of representation 288 populism 300 post-human 187, 189,
198, 215 pragmatism 295 product, nature of 276 production 305 architect 289 architectural 280 artistic 279 culture of 273 efficient 279 professional design 42 licensure 289 progress 250 properness 42 prototype 236 proximate designers 107 public