dc.contributor.editor | Lees-Maffei, Grace | |
dc.contributor.editor | Fallan, Kjetil | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-07T10:18:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-07-07T10:18:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-06-24 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lees-Maffei , G & Fallan , K (eds) 2016 , Designing Worlds : National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization . Making Sense of History , vol. 24 , Berghahn Books , New York and Oxford . < http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/FallanDesigning > | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 1785331558 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-7474-5118/work/62748298 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/18804 | |
dc.description | Kjetil Fallan, Grace Lees-Maffei, Eds, ‘Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization’, (Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books, 2016), ISBN 1785331558. Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization edited by Kjetil Fallan and Grace Lees-Maffei is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). | |
dc.description.abstract | Contemporary design is simultaneously global, regional and national. ‘Italian’ cars, for example, may be designed by Britons and Brazilians and manufactured in Poland and Pakistan, on behalf of multi-national owners, for consumption in Switzerland and Swaziland. At the same time, international developments in higher education, the continuing influence of post-colonial theory, and the contemporary focus on sustainability, have led design historians to critique a bias towards Western industrialised nations based on a definition of design derived from its separation from industrial manufacture. Design historians are now looking further afield in writing Global Design History (to use the title of a 2011 anthology). National histories are criticised as unsuited to a new ‘global gaze’ in which contemporary society and historical narratives are to be freed from the geo-political straightjacket of nation states. Appadurai (1996) has even claimed that the nation state has become obsolete as a marker of identity construction. Is the nation simply imagined (Anderson, 1983), a modern myth, as Ernest Gellner (1983) claimed? Or can this admittedly complex construction still be a valuable framework for histories of design? The nation state is no longer the only socio-cultural or political-economic unit forming our identities and experiences, but national and regional histories of design have demonstrated cogent frameworks for the discussion of common socio-economic, cultural and identity issues. With contributions from all five continents, this book will provide a timely examination of the historiographic value of national frameworks and ask whether moves to discard them are premature. | en |
dc.format.extent | 281 | |
dc.format.extent | 13399276 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Berghahn Books | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Making Sense of History | |
dc.subject | DESIGN | |
dc.subject | Design History | |
dc.subject | Globalization | |
dc.subject | national identity | |
dc.subject | History | |
dc.title | Designing Worlds : National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization | en |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Creative Arts | |
dc.contributor.institution | Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute | |
dc.contributor.institution | Theorising Visual Art and Design | |
dc.contributor.institution | Art and Design | |
dc.identifier.url | http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/FallanDesigning | |
dc.identifier.url | http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/FallanDesigning | |
rioxxterms.type | Book | |
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