[Commlist] New book: The Social Object: Apprehending Materiality for Industrial Design Practice

Intellect is pleased to share that /The Social Object: Apprehending 
Materiality for Industrial Design Practice 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-social-object>/, by Soumitri 
Varadarajan, is out in hardback and e-book.

/The Social Object/ uses the methods of design history, material culture 
studies and the social construction of technology to analyse the 
domestic spaces and objects in the homes of the middle class in India. 
The book describes how people make meaning of the objects they buy, own, 
and gift. Soumitri Varadarajan argues against a simplistic universal 
account of the way we think about how objects are designed. Instead, he 
presents a biography of projects and objects, offering a detailed and 
affectionate account of the lives of objects within the homes of the 
not-so-rich.


*_Table of Contents
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*Introduction
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*Chapter 1:* Waste-work

*Chapter 2:* The place

*Chapter 3:* The right way

*Chapter 4: *The object journey

*Chapter 5:* Sites for objects

*Chapter 6: *Designed objects

*Conclusion *
*Bibliography **__*

Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/the-social-object 
<http://www.intellectbooks.com/the-social-object>

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