Featuring designed objects ranging from a garden shed that can be "tumbled" into new spaces and configurations to a raincoat that can be transformed into a kite, this work profiles 37 design projects featured in the Walker Art Center's eponymous exhibition. The projects were gathered to illustrate themes related to polemical objects that force the user to reconsider relationships to products, portable structures that undermine principles of site-specificity and permanence, multifunctionality through changes in shape and use, and the transformation of ordinary objects and spaces (or transformation of the "everyday"). In addition to the photographic and textual profiles, three essays consider issues related to the above themes. Distributed by Distributed Art Publishers. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)