The Routledge Companion to Design Studies / Edition 1

by Penny Sparke, Fiona Fisher

Overview

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:

• Defining Design: Discipline, Process
• Defining Design: Objects, Spaces
• Designing Identities: Gender, Sexuality, Age, Nation
• Designing Society: Empathy, Responsibility, Consumption, the Everyday
• Design and Politics: Activism, Intervention, Regulation
• Designing the World: Globalization, Transnationalism, Translation

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138780507
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/21/2016
Series:	Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Penny Sparke

PART ONE

Defining Design: Discipline, Process

1. Penelope Dean

Free For All

2. Jilly Traganou

Wall Street Bounded and Unbinding: The Spatial as a Multifocal Lens in Design Studies

3. Alison Prendiville

Connectivity Through Service Design

4. Louise Valentine

A Curious Journey into an Unknown World

5. Christopher Boyko, Yi Chang Lee, Rachel Cooper,

Design Decision Making

6. Lois Weinthal

Drawing the Dotted Line

7. Janice Helland

The Craft and Design of Dressmaking, 1880 -1907

PART TWO

Defining Design: Objects, Spaces

8. Robert Friedel

Artifice, Materials and the Choices of Design

9. Paul Atkinson

Writing the Design History of Computers

10. Victoria Kelley

Keeping it on the Surface: Design, Surfaces and Taste

11. Trevor Keeble

Table Stories: History, Meaning and Narrative in Contemporary Homemaking

12. Marilyn Cohen

Wall Street(s)

13. Viviana Narotzky

Beyond Perfection. Object and process in twenty-first century design and material culture

PART THREE

Designing Identities: Gender, Sexuality, Age, Nation

14. Christopher Breward

Modern Dressing: the suit as practice and symbol

15. Penny Sparke

Arranging the Aspidistras: nature, culture and the design of the feminine sphere in the nineteenth century

16. John Potvin

From Bright Young Thing to Vile Body to Posthumous Reliquary: Stephen Tennant, queer excess and the decadent interior

17. Amy F. Ogata

Designing Childhood

18. Noel Waite

Futures Fairs: Industrial exhibitions in New Zealand 1865-1925

19. Paul Hazell

A Difficult Road: Designing a post-colonial car for Africa

20. Jeremy Aynsley

The Cultural Representation of Graphic Design in East and West Germany, 1949 to 1970

21. Kjetil Fallan

A Match Made in Utopia: the uneasy love affair of art and industry in Scandinavia

PART FOUR

Designing Society: Empathy, Responsibility, Consumption, the Everyday

22. Barbara Penner

From Ergonomics to Empathy: Herman Miller and MetaForm

23. Deana McDonagh

How Products Satisfy Needs Beyond the Functional: empathy supporting consumer-product relationships

24. Joseph McBrinn

Refashioning disability: the case of Painted Fabrics Ltd, 1915-1959

25. Rama Gheerawo

Socially Inclusive Design: a people-centred perspective

26. Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe

What is "Socially Responsive Design and Innovation"?

27. Ming Cheung

Use Experience Design in Digital Service Information

28. Prasad Boradkar

Design + Anthropology: An Emergent Discipline

29. Ben Highmore

Design, Daily Life and Matters of Taste

PART FIVE

Design and Politics: Activism, Intervention, Regulation

30. Tony Fry

Configuring Design as Politics Now

31. Alison J. Clarke

Design for the Real World: Victor Papanek and the Emergence of Humane Design

32. Eeva Berglund

Impossible Maybe, Perhaps Quite Likely: Activist design in Helsinki’s urban wastelands

33. Stuart Walker

Design for Meaningful Innovation

34. Rebecca Reubens

Towards Holistic Sustainability Design: The Rhizome Approach

35. Fiona Fisher

Regulating Design: Spaces and Boundaries of the Late Nineteenth-Century Public House

PART SIX

Designing the World: Globalization, Transnationalism, Translation

1. Victor Margolin

A World History of Design

2. Grace Lees-Maffei

"Why Then the World’s my Oyster": Consumption and Globalization, 1851 to now

3. Meltem O Gürel

Designing and Consuming the Modern in Turkey

4. Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz

Three Dutchnesses of Dutch Design: The Construction of a National Practice at the Intersection of National and International Dynamics

5. Tanishka Kachru

The Staging of Indian National Identity Through Exhibitions, 1850-1947

6. Elise Hodson

Exhibiting Independent India: Textiles and Ornamental Arts at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

7. Christine Guth

Design before Design in Japan

8. Yuko Kikuchi

The Cold War Design Business of John D. Rockefeller 3rd