Publications

Redefining Designing: From Form to Experience

C. Thomas Mitchell

Redefining Designing: From Form to Experience offers a comprehensive new theory of design in which user needs and wishes are central. The book focuses on design viewed in terms of human experience, rather than physical form.

Redefining Designing offers a highly critical study of design philosophies that have emerged since industrialization: modernism, late-modernism, postmodernism, and deconstruction. More >>

New Thinking in Design: Conversations on Theory and Practice

C. Thomas Mitchell

Gathered here, for the first time, are in-depth conversations with thirteen design theorists of international renown who have forged new ground in user-responsive designs. These thought-provoking conversations illuminate not just the theory of user-responsiveness, but how it is realized within the context of practice across a truly diverse spectrum of disciplinesz: More >>

Living Design: The Daoist Way of Building

C. Thomas Mitchell and Jiangmei Wu

When Jiangmei Wu came to America to study and practice Western architecture, Thomas Mitchell told her she might be wiser to teach Western architects about the rich Chinese traditions of architecture and placemaking instead.

The result of their collaboration was this beautifully illustrated book: Living Design: The Daoist Way of Building. Mitchell and Wu explore the possibility of creating a new, living philosophy of design in the West using Daoist principles More >>

User-Responsive Design: Reducing the Risk of Failure

C. Thomas Mitchell

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