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XENIA DANOS PhD
Loughborough Design Press BOOKS
"Loughborough Design Press (LDP) is a specialist publisher of significant theoretical contributions to design education research and design theory. It has been established by Eddie Norman and Ken Baynes. Design education has been long-established both in the UK and internationally, but is not in our view sufficiently represented within the mainstream of art, design or technology education publishing. This is the situation that we hope LDP will help to address.
Design education, alongside Science and the Humanities, is important because it underpins our relationship with both the natural and made worlds – whether real or virtual – and hence all our futures."
Quote taken from http://www.ldpress.co.uk/about-loughborough-design-press/ (December 14, 2014)
GRAPHICACY AND CULTURE: REFOCUSING ON VISUAL LEARNING
ISBN: [hardback, colour] 978-1-909671-06-5 … £55.00 RRP
ISBN: [paperback, B&W] 978-1-909671-07-2 – £15.99 RRP
ISBN: [ePub] 978-1-909671-08-9 … £18.99 RRP
ISBN: [Mobi] 978-1-909671-09-6 … £18.99 RRP
ISBN: [ePub] 978-1-909671-10-2 … £18.99 RRP
Recommended supplier is The Great British Bookshop. Different versions are also available from all good book stores (eg Blackwells and Waterstones) and online book sellers (eg BOOKS etc).
Xenia Danos’ book contributes to the creation of a platform for education in the area of graphicacy and refocusing on visual learning. The foundation for the book is Xenia’s literature review concerning the development of graphicacy in humans. Despite exploring over 2000 references, the prior research was limited in scope, but raised many potentially interesting points of departure.
Ken Baynes puts this literature review in context with an opening essay on the significance of the visual in Western culture. He explores the role of graphicacy in cultural change, its role in establishing continuities, and particularly its significance for shaping the future through modelling and design. After discussing graphicacy in education, its development and progression, and relationship to students’ learning, Xenia presents a new taxonomy that she designed primarily to facilitate the analysis of graphicacy across educational curricula, although it has wider application.
Graphicacy is vital to an extraordinary range of human activities ranging from design to archaeology. It is a key medium for communicating ideas, information and proposals in everyday life. A feature of Xenia’s book is a number of case studies demonstrating current graphic practice in professions as diverse as dentistry, psychotherapy and engineering. Taken together they serve to substantiate her argument for the use of graphic media as a means of learning and expression in education. The book’s purpose is to get graphicacy on the educational agenda and it makes a powerful case.
The book also provides a framework for more specialist forthcoming LDP titles that take the connection between graphicacy and design into related areas of practice and education.
GRAPHICACY AND CULTURE BOOK BY XENIA DANOS
Gill Hope reviews ‘Graphicacy and Culture: Refocusing on visual learning’
by Eddie Norman on November 6, 2014 in Book reviews
http://www.ldpress.co.uk/category/design-education-books-reviews/
"...The international range of Xenia’s review is impressive. It is a major achievement to have brought together research carried out across the world....
....The range of graphics used throughout the book, from photographs, examples of student work, to schematics and tabulation, all aid comprehension and readability."
...adds considerably to our knowledge of research into graphicacy ...
... Danos’ Taxonomy ought to become one of those cornerstones of graphicacy research that everyone knows and quotes..."
