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Title My desk is my castle : exploring personalisation cultures / Uta Brandes & Michael Erlhoff (eds.) ; authors, Nadine Adrian [and others] ; [translation from German into English, Susanne Dickel and Tim Danaher].

Publication Info. Basel : Birkhäuser, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (319 pages :) : illustrations (some color)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents About This Book; Action Space'Office'; Research Methodology; The Places; Four Representative Business Sectors; The Clusters; Little Number Games; Intercultural Comparison; Object Worlds as Gender Staging; Comparative Analysis of the Business Sectors; The Desk as a Thriller; Personal Office Upgrades; The Desk as a Geodesic Space; The Desk as a Miniature World of Events and Identities: Musings from Hong Kong; Gobalised Desktop Skirmishes? Reporting from the Colonies; Visions; The Concepts of 'Public' and 'Private'; Reflections on Anthropology and Design; From Chessboards to Monopoly Games.
The New York ExperiencePotential Practical Design Implications; Bibliography; Authors.
Summary The desk is a place of work and of action, but it also serves as a place to exhibit personal things and preferences. Thus it always characterizes in two ways a material and symbolic unity. The desk is not only very informative in itself, but also must always be studied and understood in the context of its cultural, gender-specific, and field-related surroundings. The focus of this study is a comparative analysis of the use of desks. Desks in insurance companies, banks, administrative authorities, call centers, and design studios in twelve countries on all continents were studied. This publicat.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language Translated from the German.
Subject Office decoration -- Psychological aspects.
Office decoration -- Psychological aspects.
Office decoration.
Work environment -- Psychological aspects.
Work environment -- Psychological aspects.
Desks -- Psychological aspects.
Desks.
Psychological aspects.
Interior decoration -- Human factors.
Interior decoration -- Human factors.
Personal space.
Personal space.
Office decoration -- Psychological aspects -- Pictorial works.
Genre/Form Pictorial works.
Subject Interior decoration -- Human factors -- Pictorial works.
Personal space -- Pictorial works.
Work environment.
Work environment.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Illustrated works.
Illustrated works.
Added Author Brandes, Uta.
Erlhoff, Michael.
Adrian, Nadine.
Dickel, Susanne.
Danaher, Tim.
Other Form: Print version: 9783034610421 (OCoLC)780088396
ISBN 9783034610421 (electronic book)
3034610424 (electronic book)
3034607741
9783034607742
9783034607742