UID:
almafu_9961565748302883
Format:
1 online resource (xxi, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-350-06382-7
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1-350-06381-9
Content:
"Design and Agency brings together leading international design scholars and practitioners to address the concept of agency in relation to objects, organisations and people. The authors set out to expand the scope of design history and practice, avoiding the heroic narratives of a typical modernist approach. They consider both how the agents of design construct and express their identities and subjectivities through practice, while also investigating the distinctive contribution of design in the construction of individual identity and subjectivity. Individual chapters explore notions of agency in a range of design disciplines and historical periods, including the agency of women in effecting changes to the design of offices and working practices; the role of Jeffrey Lindsay and Buckminster Fuller in developing the design of a geodesic dome; Le Corbusier's 'Casa Curutchet'; a re-consideration of the gendered historiography of the 'Jugendstil' movement, and Bruce Mau's design exhibitions. Taken together, the essays in Design and Agency provide a much-needed response to the traditional texts which dominate design history. With a broad chronological span from 1900 to the present, and an equally broad understanding of the term 'design', it expands how we view the discipline, and shows how design itself can be an agent for social, cultural and economic change."--
Note:
Includes index.
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List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Reassessing Design through Agency -- John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada -- SECTION I - Designing Identities -- Introduction Marie-Eve Marchand, Concordia University, Canada -- 1. Period Decor and the Negotiation of Social Relationships in the Home -- Marie-Eve Marchand, Concordia University, Canada -- 2. Designs on Modernity: Gertrud Loew's Vienna Apartment and Situated Agency -- Sabine Wieber, University of Glasgow, UK -- 3. Gifted Design: Imperial Benevolence in the Needlework of Mary Seton Watts Elaine Cheasley Paterson, Concordia University, Canada -- 4. Beyond the Couch: Anna Freud and the Analytic Environment Amelie Elizabeth Pelly, Concordia University, Canada -- 5. Multum in parvo : Scale and Agency in the Thorne Miniature Rooms -- Erin J. Campbell, University of Victoria, Australia -- 6. Listening for Design: Agency and History in a Philips Aachen-Super D52 -- Michael Windover, Carleton University, Canada -- 7. Agency, Art and Architecture in Medical Murals by Mary Filer and Marian Dale Scott -- Annmarie Adams, McGill University, Canada -- 8. Duelling Over Domes: Jeffrey Lindsay and Buckminster Fuller Cross Struts and Sprits in the US Patent Office -- Cammie McAtee, National Gallery of Canada, Canada -- 9. Desperately Seeking Sunlight: Le Corbusier's Casa Curutchet and The Man Next Door Mark Taylor, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia -- SECTION II : Systems & Institutions of Design -- Introduction Marie-Eve Marchand, Concordia University, Canada -- 10. The Dry Goods Economist and the Role of Mass Media in the Creation of a Global Window Design Aesthetic at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- Anca I. Lasc, Pratt Institute, USA -- 11. National Cash Register Company's Boys' Garden: Shaping Working-Class Childhoods and Future Workers, 1897-1913 -- Sara Nicole England, independent, Canada -- 12. Women as Agents of Change in the Design of the Workplace -- Lynn Chalmers, independent, Canada.
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13. Stand-in or Act-out: Period Rooms as Spaces of Agency -- Anne Soll, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany and Stefan Kramer, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany -- 14. Agent Bruce Mau and the Audacity of Design Rachel Gotlieb, Sheridan College, Canada -- 15. From Indian to Indigenous Agency: Opportunities and Challenges for Architectural Design -- David Fortin, Laurentian University, Canada -- 16. Design History and Dyslexia -- Anne Massey, University of Huddersfield, UK -- 17. Textual Agency: Pitfalls and Potentials -- Jessica Hemmings, University of Gothenburg, Sweden -- 18. Design's Performative Agency: Thoughts and New Directions for Materiality, Ontology and Identity-Making -- Ece Canli, Research Insitute for Design, Media and Culture, Portugal -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-350-06379-7
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350063822
