Mads Nygaard Folkmann is Professor of Design Studies at the Department of Media, Design, Education and Cognition, University of Southern Denmark. He is author of The Aesthetics of Imagination in Design (MIT Press) and Designkultur: Teoretiske perspektiver på design.
Preface ix
Introduction 1
I Theory
1 Aesthetics 23
2 Aesthetics and Design
3 Design Aesthetics: A Framework 57
4 Aesthetic Experience in Design 109
II Implications
5 Negotiating Aesthetics in Design Practice 151
6 The Post-Material Aesthetics of Digital Objects 199
7 Aestheticizing Perception of Design 243
Coda: Too Much Aesthetics? 287
Glossary: A Quick Guide to Design Aesthetics 295
Notes 301
References 331
Index 357
