John Thackara - Winners! How Today's Successful Companies Innovate By Design (Hardcover/Gebonden)

 John Thackara  -  Winners! How Today's Successful Companies Innovate By Design  (Hardcover/Gebonden)  Engelstalig  Nieuw

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John Thackara is a writer, advisor and bioregional designer.
Today, he is a senior fellow at the Royal College of Art; adjunct professor at Tongji University in Shanghai; visiting professor at School of Visual Arts in New York, and at Pontio Innovation in Wales; and curator of the Social Food Forum.
His most recent book - How To Thrive In the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Today - has just been published in China.
He curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years – first in Amsterdam, later across India – and was commissioner of the UK social innovation biennial Dott 07 and the French design biennial City Eco Lab.
Since 2011, Thackara has curated place-based xskool workshops in 20 countries on the theme: Pathways to sustainability: Urban-Rural Reconnection. He studied philosophy before working for ten years as a book publisher and magazine editor. He was the first director (1993—99) of the Netherlands Design Institute.

Winners! provides product design case studies of 49 European Design Prize. The book begins by setting companies who were finalists in the 1997 the scene for the use of design as we approach the 21st century: new drivers of innovation are outlined. The product design case studies are developed with the aid of excellent visuals. They represent an excellent survey of the growing areas in product design in Europe, and there are outlines of some of Europe's most successful small and medium sized enterprises, highlighting how these SMEs effectively use design to compete in the marketplace.

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