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Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization: 24 (Making Sense of History, 24)

Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization: 24 (Making Sense of History, 24)

by Grace Lees-Maffei (Editor), Kjetil Fallan (Editor)

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Synopsis

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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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 298
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 01 Jun 2018
ISBN 10: 1785338323
ISBN 13: 9781785338328

Media Reviews
This is a lively, spirited, and imaginative volume whose editors have assembled an impressive range of contributions. It is likely to be embraced not just within design history but also by scholars working in comparative history, art history, spatial theory, and material culture. * Peter McNeil, University of Technology, Sydney
Author Bio
Kjetil Fallan is Professor of Design History at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Design History: Understanding Theory and Method (Berg, 2010), editor of Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories (Berg, 2012), and co-editor, with Grace Lees-Maffei, of Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design (Bloomsbury, 2013). Grace Lees-Maffei is Reader in Design History at the University of Hertfordshire. She is the managing editor of the Journal of Design History, author of Design at Home: Domestic Advice Literature in the UK and the US since 1945 (Routledge, 2014), editor of Writing Design: Words and Objects and co-editor, with Rebecca Houze, of The Design History Reader.