How does industrial design operate outside of capitalist consumer
culture? Designing for Socialist Need assembles a detailed picture
of industrial design practice in the socialist German Democratic
Republic (GDR). Drawing on much previously unexplored material from
a wide variety of sources, it not only maps out some of the
ideological, institutional and economic contexts within which GDR
design functioned, it also critically reconstructs the designers'
aims and perspectives in order to argue that they shared a
profoundly socially responsible approach to design. By focusing on
their ideas and approaches, this volume attends to the previously
unacknowledged intellectual and practical richness of GDR design
culture and demonstrates that it can provide pertinent insights not
only for scholars of GDR history or German design, but also for
contemporary design practitioners, theorists and educators with an
interest in sustainability in design.
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