Everyday engineering : an ethnography of design and innovation / edited by Dominique Vinck ; with contributions by Eric Blanco ... [et al.].
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- I. Ordinary Technical Tasks and Their Complexity
- 1. Socio-Technical Complexity: Redesigning a Shielding Wall
- 2. The Nature and the Stakes of a Tool: The Genesis of a Design Aid Tool for Mechanical Engineering
- 3. Social Complexity and the Role of the Object: Installing Household Waste Containers
- II. The Social Worlds and Cultures of Design
- 4. The Structural Engineer in the Design Office: A World, Its Objects, and Its Work Practices
- 5. Contrasting Design Cultures: Designing Dies for Drawing Aluminum
- 6. A Prototype Culture: Designing a Paint Atomizer
- III. Technical Writing Practices
- 7. Writing Procedures: The Role of Quality Assurance Formats
- 8. The Role of Graphical Representations in Inter-Professional Cooperation
- 9. Rough Drafts: Revealing and Mediating Design
- Epilogue: Approaches to the Ethnography of Technologies.
