Teasley, Sarah, 2019, Book Section, Contemporary Design History In: Massey, Anne, (ed.) A Companion to Contemporary Design since 1945. Blackwell Companions to Art History . Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK, pp. 9-31. ISBN 978-1-119-11118-4
Abstract or Description: | This chapter posits that design history, as a set of approaches, perspectives, and techniques, offers a powerful mode for undertaking histories of the contemporary. It suggests that the approaches and perspectives possible in the history of design – attention to lived experience, materiality, and the everyday; an understanding of experience as interface with artifactual environment; and a concern with the making and experience of the artifacts, environments, and experiences that shape our physical and emotional interaction in the world – might provide an effective net for catching and seeing that history. Combined with methods for communicating histories that activate such an understanding of affect as a designer would – or in collaboration with artist and designers – the chapter proposes that design history offers a powerful script for compiling and communicating histories of the recent past, and for relating those histories to decision‐making now. |
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Subjects: | Other > Eastern > T200 Japanese studies Other > Historical and Philosophical studies > V100 History by period > V140 Modern History > V147 Modern History 1950-1999 Other > Historical and Philosophical studies > V100 History by period > V140 Modern History > V148 Modern History 2000-2099 Other > Historical and Philosophical studies > V300 History by topic > V370 History of Design Creative Arts and Design > W200 Design studies |
School or Centre: | School of Arts & Humanities |
Funders: | The British Academy |
Date Deposited: | 28 Oct 2019 15:09 |
Last Modified: | 13 Jan 2021 17:33 |
URI: | https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/3900 |
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