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.
Radical rethinking of the relationship between design and history.
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ESSAY ONE WHITHER DESIGN/WHETHER HISTORY |
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1 Rememberings and dismemberings |
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2 Another history, another designing |
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3 Design in the maelstrom of time |
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ESSAY TWO HISTORY, DESIGN, FUTURES: CONTENDING WITH WHAT WE HAVE MADE |
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1 Our history, our unhappiness |
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2 The artificial and what it opens towards |
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3 Acting in regard to history |
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ESSAY THREE AND SO TO ANOTHER SETTING ... |
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Tony Fry is Principal of The Studio at the Edge of the World, Tasmania, Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia and Visiting Professor at Universidad de Ibagué, Colombia. He is an award-winning designer, cultural theorist, educator and author. He has held academic positions in Australia and internationally and is the author of sixteen books, including Design Futuring (Bloomsbury, 2009); Design as Politics (Bloomsbury, 2011), Becoming Human By Design (Bloomsbury, 2012), Remaking Cities (Bloomsbury, 2017), Defuturing (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Writing Design Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2021). Clive Dilnot is professor of Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA. Recent publications include Ethics? Design? (2005) and the text for Chris Killip: Pirelli Work (2007). Director of Postgraduate Studies and Curriculum Development, Design School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
