Full Description
Design and Heritage provides the first extended study of heritage from the point of view of design history. Exploring the material objects and spaces that contribute to our experience of heritage, the volume also examines the processes and practices that shape them.
Bringing together 18 case studies, written by authors from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Norway, India, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, the book questions how design functions to produce heritage. Including provocative case studies of objects that reinterpret visual symbols of cultural identity and buildings and monuments that evoke feelings of national pride and historical memory, as well as landscapes embedded with trauma, contributors consider how we can work to develop adequate shared conceptual models of heritage and apply them to design and its histories. Exploring the distinction between tangible and intangible heritages, the chapters consider what these categories mean for design history and heritage. Finally, the book questions whether it might be possible to promote a truly equitable understanding of heritage that illuminates the social, cultural and economic roles of design.
Design and Heritage demonstrates that design historical methods of inquiry contribute significantly to critical heritage studies. Academics, researchers and students engaged in the study of heritage, design history, material culture, folklore, art history, architectural history and social and cultural history will find much to interest them within the pages of the book.
Contents
Introduction: Design (History) and Heritage (Studies): An Introduction
Grace Lees-Maffei
Part I. Monuments and Memorials
Wellington Monument and the Uses of Heritage: Changing Purpose, New Meanings, Multiple Identities
Barbara Wood
Marginalised Heritage and Invisible History: The Silvertown War Memorial
Louise Purbrick
The India-Pakistan Border as Site for the Production of National Identity: Heritage by Design
Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan
Part II. Landscape, Place and Visitor Experience Design
Indigenous Living ['Heritage'] Designing Tenets: Kulin ways of Singing, Designing, Nurturing and Nourishing Terrains of Identity
Mandy Nicholson and David S. Jones
Hopi House and the Design of Heritage at Grand Canyon National Park
Rebecca Houze
The Design Heritage of the Wintergardens at the Auckland Domain: Spectacular Enchantment
Jacqueline Naismith
Toward a Typology of Designed Heritage in Southeast Ohio: Mound, Marker, Mine
Samuel Dodd
Part III. Craft and Industrial Design
Dürer, Goethe, and the Poetics of Richard Riemerschmid's Modern Wooden Furniture
Freyja Hartzell
Royal Copenhagen vs. Porsgrund: Negotiating Ceramic Design Heritage in the Age of Copyright
Peder Valle
Lifestyle Branding, Nostalgia, and Hong Kong's Contested Heritage
Daniel J. Huppatz
Part IV. Textiles and Dress
Reclaiming Heritage Narratives: Reweaving the Story of a Royal Wedding Dress
Zoë Hendon
A Canadian Maple Leaf Quilt: Design History and Natural Heritage
Vanessa Nicholas
Design, Politics, and Croatian Folk Heritage: Gingerbread and Lace
Heidi Cook
Part V. Graphic Design, Information Design and Typography
South African Heritage Postcards: The Same Old Story?
Jeanne van Eeden
Modernist Graphics, New Typography, and the Design of Identity in the First Czechoslovak Republic
Benjamin Benus
Typography and Lettering as Design Heritage in Brazil
Priscila Farias
Part VI. Digitisation and Online User Experience Design
Recontextualizing Burmese Colonial Photographs as Contemporary Fashion Accessories at Yangoods: 'To Revitalize Myanmar's Heritage'
Carmín Berchiolly
Designing Absence at the Anne Frank House Museum, Amsterdam, and the Secret Annex Online: Exhibition Design, Virtual Reality and Historic Preservation
Sarah Lichtman
