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Swedish Design - An Ethnography (Hardcover)
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Swedish Design - An Ethnography (Hardcover)
Series: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
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Swedish designers are noted for producing distinctive and elegant
forms; their furniture and household goods have an especially loyal
following around the world. Design in Sweden has more than just an
aesthetic component, however. Since at least the late nineteenth
century, Swedish politicians and social planners have viewed design
as a means for advocating and enacting social change and pushing
for a more egalitarian social organization. In this book, Keith M.
Murphy examines the special relationship between politics and
design in Sweden, revealing in particular the cultural meanings
this relationship holds for Swedish society. Over the course of
fourteen months of research in Stockholm and at other sites, Murphy
conducted in-depth interviews with various players involved in the
Swedish design industry-designers, design instructors, government
officials, artists, and curators-and observed several different
design collectives in action. He found that for Swedes design is
never socially or politically neutral. Even for common objects like
furniture and other household goods, design can be labeled
"responsible," "democratic," or "ethical"- descriptors that all
neatly resonate with the traditional moral tones of Swedish social
democracy. Murphy also considers the example of Ikea and its power
to politicize perceptions of the everyday world. More broadly, his
book serves as a model for an anthropological approach to the study
of design practice, one that accounts for the various ways in which
order is purposefully and meaningfully imposed by designers on the
domains of human life, and the consequences those impositions have
on the social worlds in which they are embedded.
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