New book from the TUM Senior Excellence Faculty
"The State of Design"
"The State of Design" is intended equally for designers, engineers, architects, sociologists, material scientists and researchers from other disciplines. The book encourages the understanding of design as an integral component of research and teaching. It emphasizes the significance of integration in interdisciplinary education, in particular at technical universities. In addition to TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann, the ground-breaking industrial designer Prof. Dieter Rams and the former Director of the TUM Architecture Museum, Prof. Winfried Nerdinger, have contributed introductory articles to the volume.
The book "The State of Design" is written in German and has 208 pages. It is a part of the TUM.UP INSIGHTS series and is published by TUM.University Press. Editors: Prof. Fritz Frenkler, Dr. Birgit Herbst-Gaebel, Prof. Michael Molls, Prof. Sebastian Stadler, Prof. Wilhelm Vossenkuhl.
The printed book is available at retail book sellers for 25 euros (ISBN: 978-3-95884-082-9), while the digital version is available online for download free of charge.
The book received support from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the State of Bavaria as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.
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