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: 9781785331558
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication date: 06/01/2016
Series: Making Sense of History , #24
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(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

List of Illustrations vii

Introduction: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization Grace Lees-Maffei Kjetil Fallan 1

Chapter 1 Designs on/in Africa Dipti Bhagat 23

Chapter 2 Docs Southern African Design History Exist? Deirdre Pretorius 42

Chapter 3 Designing the South African Nation: From Nature to Culture Jacques Lange Jeanne van Eeden 60

Chapter 4 Resisting Global Homogeneity but Craving Global Markets: Kiwiana and Contemporary Design Practice in New Zealand Claudia Bell 76

Chapter 5 Creativity within a Geographical-National Framework: From Modern Japanese Design to Pevsner's Art Geography Ariyuki Kondo 93

Chapter 6 Imagining the Indian Nation: The Design of Gandhi's Dandi March and Nehru's Republic Day Parade Suchitra Balasubralmanyan 108

Chapter 7 Troubled Geography: Imagining Lebanon in 1960s Tourist Promotion Zeina Maasri 125

Chapter 8 Czech Glass or Bohemian Crystal? The Nationality of Design in the Czech Context Marta Filipová 141

Chapter 9 The Myth of Danish Design and the Implicit Claims of Labels Stina Teilmann-Lock 156

Chapter 10 Altering a Homogenized Heritage: Articulating Heterogeneous Material Cultures in Norway and Sweden Kjetil Fallan Christina Zetterlund 172

Chapter 11 A Special Relationship: The UK-US Transatlantic Domestic Dialogue Grace Lees-Maffei 188

Chapter 12 Surveying the Borders: Authenticity in Mexican- American Food Packaging, Imagery and Architecture Nicolas P. Maffei 211

Chapter 13 An Empire of Ones Own: Individualism and Domestic Built Form in Twenty-First-Century Jamaica Davinia Gregory 226

Chapter 14 The Quest for Modernity: A Global/National Approach to a History of Design in Latin America Patricia Lara-Betancourt 241

Chapter 15 Of Coffee, Nature and Exclusion: Designing Brazilian National Identity at International Exhibitions (1867 and 1904) Livia Rezende 259

Index 275

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