Introduction: Design and theories of things Leslie Atzmon and Prasad Boradkar -- 1 Filled with wonder: The enchanting android from cams to algorithms Betti Marenko -- 2 When objects fail: Unconcealing things in design writing and criticism Peter Hall -- 3 The practically living weight of convenient things Cameron Tonkinwise -- 4 Big things: The vibrant culture of boomboxes Prasad Boradkar and Lyle Owerko -- 5 Theorizing the hari kuyō: The ritual disposal of needles in early modern Japan Christine M. E. Guth -- 6 Nothingness in April Greiman's Does It Make Sense? Elizabeth Guffey -- 7 Making things, things Nina Rappaport -- 8 Distributing stresses: The development and use of the Eames Dining Chair Metal (DCM) Michael J. Golec -- 9 What design tells us about objects and things Giorgio De Michelis -- 10 The modern American telephone as a contested technological thing, 1920-39 Jan Hadlaw -- 11 Memory, materiality, and the Montreal Signs Project Matt Soar -- 12 Connecting things: Broadening design to include systems, platforms, and product-service ecologies Hugh Dubberly -- 13 Designing things as "poor" substitutes Carl Knappett -- 14 The graphic thing: Ambiguity, dysfunction, and excess in designed objects Phil Jones -- 15 Agency and counteragency of materials: A story of copper Prasad Boradkar -- Afterword: Encountering design Bill Brown -- Index -- Plates

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