Designing Worlds

National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-155-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Reihe: Making Sense of History

From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western, industrialized nations. This diverse but rigorously curated collection recalibrates our understanding of design history, reassessing regional and national cultures while situating them within an international context. Here, contributors from five continents offer nuanced studies that range from South Africa to the Czech Republic, all the while sensitive to the complexities of local variation and the role of nation-states in identity construction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fallan, Kjetil

Lees-Maffei, Grace

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization

Grace-Lees-Maffei and Kjetil Fallan

Chapter 1. Designs on/in Africa

Dipti Bhagat

Chapter 2. Does Southern African Design History Exist?

Deirdre Pretorius

Chapter 3. Designing The South African Nation: From Nature To Culture

Jacques Lange and Jeanne van Eeden

Chapter 4. Resisting Global Homogeneity but Craving Global Markets: Kiwiana and Contemporary Design Practice in New Zealand

Claudia Bell

Chapter 5. Creativity within a Geographical-National Framework: From Modern Japanese Design to Pevsner’s Art Geography

Ariyuki Kondo

Chapter 6. Imagining the Indian Nation: The Design of Gandhi’s Dandi March and Nehru’s Republic Day Parade

Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan

Chapter 7. Troubled Geography: Imagining Lebanon in 1960s Tourist Promotion

Zeina Maasri

Chapter 8. Czech Glass or Bohemian Crystal? The Nationality of Design in the Czech Context

Marta Filipová

Chapter 9. The Myth of Danish Design and the Implicit Claims of Labels

Stina Teilmann-Lock

Chapter 10. Altering a Homogenized Heritage: Articulating Heterogeneous Material Cultures in Norway and Sweden

Kjetil Fallan and Christina Zetterlund

Chapter 11. A Special Relationship: The UK-US Transatlantic Domestic Dialogue

Grace Lees-Maffei

Chapter 12. Surveying the Borders: Authenticity in Mexican-American Food Packaging, Imagery and Architecture

Nicolas P. Maffei

Chapter 13. An Empire of One’s Own: Individualism and Domestic Built Form in 21st Century Jamaica

Davinia Gregory

Chapter 14. The Quest for Modernity: A Global/National Approach to a History of Design in Latin America

Patricia Lara-Betancourt

Chapter 15. Of Coffee, Nature and Exclusion: Designing Brazilian National Identity at International Exhibitions 1867 & 1904

Livia Rezende

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fallan, Kjetil
Kjetil Fallan is Professor of Design History at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse and Design History: Understanding Theory and Method, editor of Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories, and co-editor, with Grace Lees-Maffei, of Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design.

Lees-Maffei, Grace
Grace Lees-Maffei is Professor of Design History at the University of Hertfordshire and Programme Director for DHeritage, the Professional Doctorate in Heritage. She is author of Design at Home: Domestic Advice Literature in the UK and the US since 1945, editor of Writing Design: Words and Objects and Iconic Designs: 50 Stories about 50 Things, co-editor with Kjetil Fallan of Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design, and co-editor with Rebecca Houze, of The Design History Reader.

Kjetil Fallan is Professor of Design History at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse and Design History: Understanding Theory and Method, editor of Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories, and co-editor, with Grace Lees-Maffei, of Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design.