Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization
From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western, industrialized nations. This diverse but rigorously curated collection recalibrates our understanding of design history, reassessing regional and national cultures while situating them within an international context. Here, contributors from five continents offer nuanced studies that range from South Africa to the Czech Republic, all the while sensitive to the complexities of local variation and the role of nation-states in identity construction.

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Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization
From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western, industrialized nations. This diverse but rigorously curated collection recalibrates our understanding of design history, reassessing regional and national cultures while situating them within an international context. Here, contributors from five continents offer nuanced studies that range from South Africa to the Czech Republic, all the while sensitive to the complexities of local variation and the role of nation-states in identity construction.

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Overview

From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western, industrialized nations. This diverse but rigorously curated collection recalibrates our understanding of design history, reassessing regional and national cultures while situating them within an international context. Here, contributors from five continents offer nuanced studies that range from South Africa to the Czech Republic, all the while sensitive to the complexities of local variation and the role of nation-states in identity construction.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785338328
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication date: 06/20/2018
Series: Making Sense of History , #24
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Kjetil Fallan is Professor of Design History at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse and Design History: Understanding Theory and Method, editor of Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories, and co-editor, with Grace Lees-Maffei, of Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design.

Table of Contents

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Introduction: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization
Grace-Lees-Maffei and Kjetil Fallan

Chapter 1. Designs on/in Africa
Dipti Bhagat

Chapter 2. Does Southern African Design History Exist?
Deirdre Pretorius

Chapter 3. Designing The South African Nation: From Nature To Culture
Jacques Lange and Jeanne van Eeden

Chapter 4. Resisting Global Homogeneity but Craving Global Markets: Kiwiana and Contemporary Design Practice in New Zealand
Claudia Bell

Chapter 5. Creativity within a Geographical-National Framework: From Modern Japanese Design to Pevsner’s Art Geography
Ariyuki Kondo

Chapter 6. Imagining the Indian Nation: The Design of Gandhi’s Dandi March and Nehru’s Republic Day Parade
Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan

Chapter 7. Troubled Geography: Imagining Lebanon in 1960s Tourist Promotion
Zeina Maasri

Chapter 8. Czech Glass or Bohemian Crystal? The Nationality of Design in the Czech Context
Marta Filipová

Chapter 9. The Myth of Danish Design and the Implicit Claims of Labels
Stina Teilmann-Lock

Chapter 10. Altering a Homogenized Heritage: Articulating Heterogeneous Material Cultures in Norway and Sweden
Kjetil Fallan and Christina Zetterlund

Chapter 11. A Special Relationship: The UK-US Transatlantic Domestic Dialogue
Grace Lees-Maffei

Chapter 12. Surveying the Borders: Authenticity in Mexican-American Food Packaging, Imagery and Architecture
Nicolas P. Maffei

Chapter 13. An Empire of One’s Own: Individualism and Domestic Built Form in 21st Century Jamaica
Davinia Gregory

Chapter 14. The Quest for Modernity: A Global/National Approach to a History of Design in Latin America
Patricia Lara-Betancourt

Chapter 15. Of Coffee, Nature and Exclusion: Designing Brazilian National Identity at International Exhibitions 1867 & 1904
Livia Rezende

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