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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787446103321

Autore

Fry Tony

Titolo

Design and the question of history / / Tony Fry, Clive Dilnot and Susan C. Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2020

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

0-85785-477-1

1-4725-2160-9

1-4725-8934-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Design, history, futures

Classificazione

DES000000DES009000DES011000HIS054000DES008000

Altri autori (Persone)

DilnotClive

StewartSusan C (Susan Catherine Huston)

Disciplina

745.409

Soggetti

Design and history

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface, Pre-face Essential Reading -- Essay 1: Wither Design/Whether History / Tony Fry -- Introduction -- 1. Rememberings & Dismemberings -- 2. Another History, Another Designing -- 3. Design in the Maelstrom of Time Book -- Essay 2: History, Design, Futures : Contending with What We Have Made / Clive Dilnot -- 1. Our History, Our Unhappiness -- 2.The Artificial and What It Opens Towards -- 3. Acting in Regard to History -- Essay 3: And So to Another Setting ... / Susan C. Stewart -- 1. On Care and Education -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Design and the Question of History offers a new perspective on the historical significance of design, showing how design is an agent of historical change rather than a single aspect. Despite a historical sensibility being essential in making critical and directional choices, Design History presents an extremely selective view, which cannot deliver the historical knowledge to sufficiently and sensitively inform designers and design thinkers' practice. Focusing on how the relationship between design and history is understood and presented, this book uses a methodological approach to address this problem. The book covers the issue of history and how design in history needs to be



understood by recognising that design is always historically embedded in a relational context; the efficacy of Design History as a sub-discipline within design; and the delivery of a more substantial historical sensibility to emergent designers, identifying the pedagogic problems it presents and discussing the agency of such knowledge in practice. This book is the flagship of the Design, History & Futures series, edited by Tony Fry, Lisa Norton and Anne-Marie Willis"--