08 March 2011 | Gower Publishing Ltd

New from Gower: Design for Sport

Explores how design in its broad sense can contribute to make sport practice widespread in the general population as well as among disadvantaged and hard-to-reach groups.

The authors discuss the impact and challenges of this process and present case studies about the design for sport.

Design for Sport also examines how compelling user-centred design methodologies − such as participatory design techniques and the use of appropriate ethnographies − can be successfully applied in the process of sport design. This is the latest book from the Design for Social Responsibility Series www.gowerpublishing.com/designforsocialresponsibility.

More information and free chapter downloads can be found at www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9780566088599.

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