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Includes:: an introduction by Martin Pawley This book presents for the first time in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic & philosopher Vilem Flusser It puts forward the view that our future depends on design In a series of insightful essays on such ordinary 'things' as wheels carpets pots umbrellas & tents Flusser emphasizes the interrelationships between art & science theology & technology & archaeology & architecture Just as formal creativity has produced both weapons of destruction & great works of art Flusser believed that the shape of things (and the designs behind them) represents both a threat & an opportunity for designers of the future