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Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History.
Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that
takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical
actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of
worlds within which the political, ethical and historical character
of human being is at stake, this text demands radically transformed
notions of both design and history. Above all, the authors posit
history as the generational site of the future. Blindness to
history, it is suggested, blinds us both to possibility, and to the
foreclosure of possibilities, enacted through our designing. The
text is not a resolved, continuous work, presented through one
voice. Rather, the three authors cut across each other, presenting
readers with the task of disclosing, to themselves, the
commonalities, repetitions and differences within the deployed
arguments, issues, approaches and styles from which the text is
constituted. This is a work of friendship, of solidarity in
difference, an act of cultural politics. It invites the reader to
take a position - it seeks engagement over agreement.
John Heskett was a pioneering British design historian, with a
particular interest in design and economics. Design and the
Creation of Value' publishes for the first time his groundbreaking
seminar on design and economic value. In remarkably clear and
accessible prose Heskett explores the how the key traditions of
economic thought conceive of how value is created. Critically
teasing out the role of design in this process, Heskett shows how
design's role in innovating and creating value creating value for
organisations and products can be given a firm grounding in
economic theory. Featuring examples of businesses which have
successfully responded to the value of design in their practice, as
well as others who have failed because of their inability to
understand value-creation, Heskett looks in detail at the
relationship between producers, markets, products and consumers,
using these instances to offer a both a strong critique of the
limitations conventional economic thought and new model of the
economic importance of design thinking in value creation.
John Heskett was a pioneering British design historian, with a
particular interest in design and economics. Design and the
Creation of Value' publishes for the first time his groundbreaking
seminar on design and economic value. In remarkably clear and
accessible prose Heskett explores the how the key traditions of
economic thought conceive of how value is created. Critically
teasing out the role of design in this process, Heskett shows how
design's role in innovating and creating value creating value for
organisations and products can be given a firm grounding in
economic theory. Featuring examples of businesses which have
successfully responded to the value of design in their practice, as
well as others who have failed because of their inability to
understand value-creation, Heskett looks in detail at the
relationship between producers, markets, products and consumers,
using these instances to offer a both a strong critique of the
limitations conventional economic thought and new model of the
economic importance of design thinking in value creation.
A John Heskett Reader brings together a selection of the celebrated
design historian John Heskett's key works, introduced and edited by
Clive Dilnot of Parsons, the New School, USA. Heskett, who passed
away in early 2014, was a pioneering British-born writer and
lecturer. His research was foundational for the study of industrial
design, and his research into the relationship between design,
policy and economic value is still a regular reference-point for
academics and students alike. This anthology represents well the
great range of his work, covering such varied topics as the growth
of Japanese industrialism, modernism in the Third Reich, and 1980's
corporate design management. Including both hard-to-access and
previously unpublished material like Crafts, Commerce and Industry
and Economic Value of Design, the book demonstrates Heskett's
passionate interest in exploring the relationship of design and
making with economic value across the entirety of human history.
Featured texts include, What is Design, Chinese Design: what can we
learn from the past?, The 'American System' and Mass Production,
The Industrial Applications of Tubular Steel, Creative Destruction:
the nature and consequences of change through design, Reflections
on Design and Hong Kong, besides many others.
Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History.
Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that
takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical
actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of
worlds within which the political, ethical and historical character
of human being is at stake, this text demands radically transformed
notions of both design and history. Above all, the authors posit
history as the generational site of the future. Blindness to
history, it is suggested, blinds us both to possibility, and to the
foreclosure of possibilities, enacted through our designing. The
text is not a resolved, continuous work, presented through one
voice. Rather, the three authors cut across each other, presenting
readers with the task of disclosing, to themselves, the
commonalities, repetitions and differences within the deployed
arguments, issues, approaches and styles from which the text is
constituted. This is a work of friendship, of solidarity in
difference, an act of cultural politics. It invites the reader to
take a position - it seeks engagement over agreement.
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