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This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central
European emigre designers to twentieth-century American design and
architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in
debates concerning consumption and modernism's social agendas taken
by designers such as Felix Augenfeld, Joseph Binder, Josef Frank,
Paul T. Frankl, Frederick Kiesler, Richard Neutra, and R. M.
Schindler in Europe prefigured their later adoption or rejection by
American culture. They argue that emigres and refugees from fascist
Europe such as Gyoergy Kepes, Paul Laszlo, Victor Papanek, Bernard
Rudofsky, Xanti Schawinsky, and Eva Zeisel drew on the particular
experiences of their home countries, and networks of emigre and
exiled designers in the United States, to develop a humanist,
progressive, and socially inclusive design culture which continues
to influence design practice today.
Design Anthropology brings together leading international design
theorists, consultants and anthropologists to explore the changing
object culture of the 21st century. Decades ago, product designers
used basic market research to fine-tune their designs for consumer
success. Today the design process has been radically transformed,
with the user center-stage in the design process. From design
ethnography to culture probing, innovative designers are employing
anthropological methods to elicit the meanings rather than the mere
form and function of objects. This important volume provides a
fascinating exploration of the issues facing the shapers of our
increasingly complex material world. The text features case studies
and investigations covering a diverse range of academic
disciplines. From IKEA and anti-design to erotic
twenty-first-century needlework and online interior decoration, the
book positions itself at the intersections of design, anthropology,
material culture, architecture, and sociology.
Design Anthropology brings together leading international design
theorists, consultants and anthropologists to explore the changing
object culture of the 21st century. Decades ago, product designers
used basic market research to fine-tune their designs for consumer
success. Today the design process has been radically transformed,
with the user center-stage in the design process. From design
ethnography to culture probing, innovative designers are employing
anthropological methods to elicit the meanings rather than the mere
form and function of objects. This important volume provides a
fascinating exploration of the issues facing the shapers of our
increasingly complex material world. The text features case studies
and investigations covering a diverse range of academic
disciplines. From IKEA and anti-design to erotic 21st-century
needlework and online interior decoration, the book positions
itself at the intersections of design, anthropology, material
culture, architecture, and sociology.
This innovative volume brings together international design
scholars to address the history and present-day status of national
and international design organizations, working across design
disciplines and located in countries including Argentina, Turkey,
Estonia, Switzerland, Italy, China and the USA. In the second half
of the 20th century, many non-governmental organizations were
created to address urgent cultural, economic and welfare issues.
Design organizations set out to create an international consensus
for the future direction of design. This included enhancing
communication between professionals, educators and practitioners,
raising standards for design, and creating communities of designers
across linguistic, national and political borders. Shared needs and
agendas were identified and categories of design constantly defined
and re-defined, often with overt cultural and political intents.
Drawing on an impressive range of original research, archival
sources and oral testimony, this volume questions the aims and
achievements of national and international design organizations in
light of their subsequent histories and their global remits. The
Cold War period is central to the book, while many chapters draw on
post-colonial perspectives to interpret how transnational networks
and negotiations took place at events and congresses, and through
publication.
This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central
European emigre designers to twentieth-century American design and
architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in
debates concerning consumption and modernism's social agendas taken
by designers such as Felix Augenfeld, Joseph Binder, Josef Frank,
Paul T. Frankl, Frederick Kiesler, Richard Neutra, and R. M.
Schindler in Europe prefigured their later adoption or rejection by
American culture. They argue that emigres and refugees from fascist
Europe such as Gyoergy Kepes, Paul Laszlo, Victor Papanek, Bernard
Rudofsky, Xanti Schawinsky, and Eva Zeisel drew on the particular
experiences of their home countries, and networks of emigre and
exiled designers in the United States, to develop a humanist,
progressive, and socially inclusive design culture which continues
to influence design practice today.
The history and controversial roots of the social design movement,
explored through the life and work of its leading pioneer, Victor
Papanek. In Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World, Alison
Clarke explores the social design movement through the life of its
leading pioneer, the Austrian American designer, theorist, and
activist Victor Papanek. Papanek's 1971 best seller, Design for the
Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change has been translated
into 22 languages and never fallen out of print. Its politics of
social design, anti-corporatism, and environmental sustainability
have found renewed pertinence in the twenty-first century and
dominate the agendas of design schools today. Drawing extensively
on previously unexplored archival sources, Clarke uncovers and
contextualizes the movement's controversial origins and
contradictions.
"At once cautionary and hopeful, Designing Modern Childhoods is an
indispensable and incisive analysis of the special role of the
built environment in both opening and foreclosing good futures for
kids around the globe." -Michael Sorkin, director of the Graduate
Urban Design Program at the City College of New York "From Turkish
schools to New Zealand playgrounds and American summer camps, these
essays offer a fresh and challenging take on the modern city from
the perspective of its most overlooked residents." -Dell Upton,
professor of art history, University of California, Los Angeles
"This book takes the reader on a richly detailed and imaginative
journey into the changing organization and meanings of childhood."
-Barrie Thorne, professor of sociology, gender, and women's
studies, University of California, Berkeley "This imaginative and
original collection will play an important role in enhancing a
growing interest in the history and sociology of childhood." -Peter
Stearns, provost and professor of history, George Mason University
In Designing Modern Childhoods, architectural historians, social
historians, social scientists, and architects examine the history
and design of places and objects such as schools, hospitals,
playgrounds, houses, cell phones, snowboards, and even the
McDonald's Happy Meal. Special attention is given to how children
use and interpret the spaces, buildings, and objects that are part
of their lives, becoming themselves creators and carriers of
culture. The authors extract common threads in children's
understandings of their material worlds, but they also show how the
experience of modernity varies for young people across time,
through space, and according to age, gender, social class, race,
and culture. The foreword by Paula S. Fass and epilogue by John R.
Gillis add additional depth to this comprehensive examination.
Marta Gutman is an associate professor in the School of
Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture at the City
College of New York/CUNY. Ning de Coninck-Smith is an associate
professor in the Department of Educational Sociology at the School
of Education-Arhus University.
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