Mechanization Takes Command (Sigfried Giedion)
Sigfried Giedion's design history book Mechanization Takes Command is cited as an example of how designers draw on documented history to understand the long-term impact of everyday objects.
Designers draw upon collective knowledge, successes, and failures, as documented in Proceedings like design history texts (e.g., Sigfried Giedion's Mechanization Takes Command), to understand the evolution of everyday objects and their long-term societal and ecological impacts.
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- The Clock of the Long Now (Stewart Brand) · discussed together in section 162
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- Proceedings · element
- Outcomes Component
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- Chapter 16, section 162 · The Influence of Time on the Outcomes Component
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