Designing Worlds : National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fallan, Kjetil.

Contributor:

Lees-Maffei, Grace.

University of Oslo and the University of Hertfordshire, Funder.

Series:

Making sense of history.

Making Sense of History.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (296 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Designing worlds

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

INTRODUCTION National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization

CHAPTER 1 Designs on/in Africa

CHAPTER 2 Does Southern African Design History Exist?

CHAPTER 3 Designing the South African Nation From Nature to Culture

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

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

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

CHAPTER 7 Troubled Geography: Imagining Lebanon in 1960s Tourist Promotion

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

CHAPTER 9 The Myth of Danish Design and the Implicit Claims of Labels

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

CHAPTER 11 A Special Relationship: The UK–US Transatlantic Domestic Dialogue

CHAPTER 12 Surveying the Borders ‘Authenticity’ in Mexican-American Food Packaging, Imagery and Architecture

CHAPTER 13 An Empire of One’s Own: Individualism and Domestic Built Form in Twenty-First-Century Jamaica

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

CHAPTER 15 Of Coffee, Nature and Exclusion: Designing Brazilian National Identity at International Exhibitions (1867 and 1904)

Index

Notes:

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