Uchronia: Designing Time

Helga Schmid

Published by Birkhäuser 2020

Uchronia

Designing Time

Helga Schmid

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035618112

Overview
Contents

About this book

An interdisciplinary research

What time is it?

Why should we care?

This book critically investigates our contemporary time crisis. The transformation of society from an agrarian to an industrial, and finally an urbanized way of living and working has created a fundamental change in our understanding of time: a 24/7 mentality. The move from natural time to the digital age leads to a fragmentation of time that deeply affects our daily biological and social rhythm.

We need a new approach to time to overcome our temporal system of clocks and calendars. This book investigates a new perception of time by exploring the concept of uchronia, a term derived from the Greek u-topos and meaning ‘no time’ or ‘non-time’. Uchronia is a way of questioning, speculating on and designing new kinds of temporal systems that are more about being in tune than on time.

Interdisciplinary study at the interface between design, sociology, and psychology

Easy-to-follow introduction with experiments and examples from everyday life

Attractive layout, high-quality finishing (linen)

Author / Editor information

Dr Helga Schmid, London-based designer/artist, resident at Somerset House and Course Leader BA Graphic and Media Design at LCC, UAL

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	4
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
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CHAPTER 1: UCHRONIA OR DYSCHRONIA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
CHAPTER 2: UCHRONIAN THINKING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
CHAPTER 3: UNLEARNING TIME Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
CHAPTER 4: UCHRONIA WORKSHOPS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
CHAPTER 5: TIME COMMUNITIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
CHAPTER 6: CIRCADIAN TEMPORALITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
CHAPTER 7: THE POTENTIAL OF UCHRONIA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
UCHRONIA MANIFESTO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Designer, Studierende, Sozialwissenschaftler, Psychologen, Mediziner
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 90
- Coloured Illustrations: 90
Keywords: Time; Design; Chronosociology; Chronobiology

eBook

Published: January 20, 2020
ISBN: 9783035618112

Hardcover

Published: January 20, 2020
ISBN: 9783035618105