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Since the 1990s, in response to dramatic transformations in the worlds of technology and the economy, design - a once relatively definable discipline, complete with a set of sub-disciplines - has become unrecognizable. Consequently, design scholars have begun to address new issues, themes and sub-disciplines such as: sustainable design, design for well-being, empathic design, design activism, design anthropology, and many more.
The Routledge Companion to Design Studies charts this new expanded spectrum and embraces the wide range of scholarship relating to design - theoretical, practice-related and historical - that has emerged over the last four decades. Comprised of forty-three newly-commissioned essays, the Companion is organized into the following six sections:
Contributors include both established and emerging scholars and the essays offer an international scope, covering work emanating from, and relating to, design in the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, North America, Asia, Australasia and Africa.
This comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of Design Studies.
Show moreSince the 1990s, in response to dramatic transformations in the worlds of technology and the economy, design - a once relatively definable discipline, complete with a set of sub-disciplines - has become unrecognizable. Consequently, design scholars have begun to address new issues, themes and sub-disciplines such as: sustainable design, design for well-being, empathic design, design activism, design anthropology, and many more.
The Routledge Companion to Design Studies charts this new expanded spectrum and embraces the wide range of scholarship relating to design - theoretical, practice-related and historical - that has emerged over the last four decades. Comprised of forty-three newly-commissioned essays, the Companion is organized into the following six sections:
Contributors include both established and emerging scholars and the essays offer an international scope, covering work emanating from, and relating to, design in the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, North America, Asia, Australasia and Africa.
This comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of Design Studies.
Show moreINTRODUCTION
Penny Sparke
PART ONE
Defining Design: Discipline, Process
Free For All
Wall Street Bounded and Unbinding: The Spatial as a Multifocal Lens in Design Studies
Connectivity Through Service Design
A Curious Journey into an Unknown World
Design Decision Making
Drawing the Dotted Line
The Craft and Design of Dressmaking, 1880 -1907
PART TWO
Defining Design: Objects, Spaces
Artifice, Materials and the Choices of Design
Writing the Design History of Computers
Keeping it on the Surface: Design, Surfaces and Taste
Table Stories: History, Meaning and Narrative in Contemporary Homemaking
Wall Street(s)
Beyond Perfection. Object and process in twenty-first century design and material culture
PART THREE
Designing Identities: Gender, Sexuality, Age, Nation
Modern Dressing: the suit as practice and symbol
Arranging the Aspidistras: nature, culture and the design of the feminine sphere in the nineteenth century
From Bright Young Thing to Vile Body to Posthumous Reliquary: Stephen Tennant, queer excess and the decadent interior
Designing Childhood
Futures Fairs: Industrial exhibitions in New Zealand 1865-1925
A Difficult Road: Designing a post-colonial car for Africa
The Cultural Representation of Graphic Design in East and West Germany, 1949 to 1970
A Match Made in Utopia: the uneasy love affair of art and industry in Scandinavia
PART FOUR
Designing Society: Empathy, Responsibility, Consumption, the Everyday
From Ergonomics to Empathy: Herman Miller and MetaForm
How Products Satisfy Needs Beyond the Functional: empathy supporting consumer-product relationships
Refashioning disability: the case of Painted Fabrics Ltd, 1915-1959
Socially Inclusive Design: a people-centred perspective
What is "Socially Responsive Design and Innovation"?
Use Experience Design in Digital Service Information
Design + Anthropology: An Emergent Discipline
Design, Daily Life and Matters of Taste
PART FIVE
Design and Politics: Activism, Intervention, Regulation
Configuring Design as Politics Now
Design for the Real World: Victor Papanek and the Emergence of Humane Design
Impossible Maybe, Perhaps Quite Likely: Activist design in Helsinki’s urban wastelands
Design for Meaningful Innovation
Towards Holistic Sustainability Design: The Rhizome Approach
Regulating Design: The Spaces and Boundaries of the Late Nineteenth-Century Public House
PART SIX
Designing the World: Globalization, Transnationalism, Translation
A World History of Design
"Why Then the World’s my Oyster": Consumption and Globalization, 1851 to the Present
Designing and Consuming the Modern in Turkey
Three Dutchnesses of Dutch Design: The Construction of a National Practice at the InterPART of National and International Dynamics
The Staging of Indian National Identity Through Exhibitions, 1850-1947
Exhibiting Independent India: Textiles and Ornamental Arts at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
Design before Design in Japan
The Cold War Design Business of John D. Rockefeller
Penny Sparke is a Professor of Design History and Director of the
Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) at Kingston University,
London. Her publications include Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of
Modern Interior Decoration (2005), The Modern Interior (2008) and
An Introduction to Design and Culture, 1900 to the present, 3rd
edition (2012).
Fiona Fisher is a Researcher in Design History at the Modern
Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) at Kingston University, London.
Her recent publications include Designing the British Post-War
Home: Kenneth Wood, 1948-1968 (2015) and, co-edited with
Christopher Breward and Ghislaine Wood, British Design: Tradition
and Modernity After 1948 (2015).
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