Susan Yelavich

Barbara Adams

"Design as Future-Making is a collection of essays by an international roster of leading designers and theorists who share a new understanding of design as a socio-material practice embedded within a multiplicity of ways of making the world.Issues such as social justice, environmental health, political agency, education, and even the right to pleasure and play, are customarily thought of as dematerialised ideas and values. Yet, each of those realms of daily life are affected by - indeed, determined by - their physical and virtual contexts. Design as Future-Making argues that design is not only integral to social issues, but it is also an integrated mode of thought and action - one that variously draws on and informs disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political science, and psychology"--

Design as Future-Making

Diverse, inclusive organizations have a distinct business advantage over other organizations. They innovate faster, outperform other companies, and even produce higher financial returns. Workforce diversity, as a business strategy, drives success and can transform a company. But inclusive diversity is difficult to attain, and honestly, about more than just economic benefit. People are looking for guidance on how to do this vital work. Companies that want greater diversity inevitably find that they come up against culture and obstacles they are ill-equipped to handle. When the way we've done business no longer represents the kinds of organizations we want to be, how do we step out of our old models and mindsets? This book is for anyone who wants change in the workplace and knows their companies could do more and be more. It's for business leaders, hiring managers, human resources, all those within an organization who believe things can be done differently. ​In this book, Dr. Adams lays out clear, actionable steps readers can take to develop sustainably diverse and inclusive workplaces. As an organizational psychologist who's been helping companies create measurable change for over 20 years, she offers tangible solutions to complex issues that will enable companies to walk a new path of diversity and inclusion, heightening their performance and success.

Women, Minorities, and Other Extraordinary People

Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately, the choices made by designers are understood here as choices about the kind of world we want to live in. Design as Future-Making locates design in a space of creative and critical reflection, examining the expanding nature of practice in fields such as biomedicine, sustainability, digital crafting, fashion, architecture, urbanism, and design activism. The authors contextualize design and its affects within issues of social justice, environmental health, political agency, education, and the right to pleasure and play. Collectively, they make the case that, as an integrated mode of thought and action, design is intrinsically social and deeply political.

Michael A. Hoffman

Renée F. Friedman

Amongst Egyptologists young and old Michael Hoffman is remembered with great affections; this volume of studies in Ancient Egypt is offered as a tribute to his memory. Contributions are: Three Questions for the Archaeologist (William Y Adams), On Ethnographic Analogies (Christian E Guksch), Michael Hoffman in Cairo (Georgette Scarzella), Settlement at Predynastic Hierakonpolis (Fred Harlan), Beer in Egypt (Jeremy Geller), Antibiotics Produced through Grain Storage Practices: recognition and implications for the Egyptian Predynastic (James O Mills), Chipped Stone-Working Craftsmen in Egypt (Diane L Holmes), Predynastic Egyptian Finewares (Hany Hamroush, Michael Lockhart and Ralph Allen), Mammalian Fauna at Hierakonpolis (John E McArdle), Development of Civilization in Egypt and South Asia (Walter A Fairservis), Sequence of Artists Strokes on the Lid from Hierakonpolis (May Trad), Two Lions from Upper Egypt: Hierakonpolis and Koptos (Barbara Adams), Hierakonpolis Ivories in Oxford (Helen Whitehouse), Status of Early Egyptian Temples (David O'Connor), Excavations at Hk64 (Renee Friedman), Predynastic Animal-headed Boats (Michael A Berger), Cenozoic Rivers: the Nile Problem (Bathay Issawi and John F. McCauley), Late Pleistocene Human Occupation of the Suez Rift, Egypt (Susan L Gawarecki and Steven K Perry), Dating Saharan Rock Art (Alfred Muzzolini), Neolithic Food Economies in the Eastern Sahara (Fred Wendorf and Angela Close), Predynastic Hearths in Upper Egypt (Pierre M Vermeesch, Etienne Paulissen, Dirk Huyge, Katherine Newmann, William Van Neer and Philip Van Peer), Carbon-14 Dates from El Omari (Bodil Mortensen), Neolithic-Predynastic Transition in the Fayum Depression (Robert J Wenke and Douglas J Brewer), Predynastic Chronology at Naqada (Joan Crowfoot Payne), Measuring Social Inequality at Armant (William A Griswold), Predynastic Cemeteries at Khozam (Stan Hendrickx), Another Predynastic Pot with Forged Decoration (Carter Lupton), Two Ivory Boxes from Graves at Minshat Abu Omar (Karla Kroeper and Lech Krzyzaniak), Architecture with Niches at Buto (Thomas von der Way), Egyptian Desert and Prehistory (Joseph Majer), Making of Egypt (Harry S Smith), Des scenes zoomorphes predynastiques en relief (Krzysztof M Cialowicz), Horus Krokodil (Gunter Dreyer), Evaluation of the "Thinite" Potmarks (Edwin C M van den Brink), Origins of Egyptian Writing (Kathryn A. Bard), Mythogenesis of Power in the Early Egyptian State (Fekri Hassan), Egyptian Weeds of Antiquity (M Nabil El Hadidi), A Burial with an Unusual Plaster Mask in the Western Cemetery of Khufu's Pyramid (Zahi A Hawass), Once Again the Date of the New Kingdom Pylon at Edfu (William J Murnane and Frank J Yurco), UNECSO, Egypt and the U.S.

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