Full Description
Design, History and Time reflects on the nature of time in relation to design, in both past and contemporary contexts. In contrast to a traditional design historical approach which emphasises schools and movements, this volume addresses time as a continuum and considers the importance of temporality for design practice and history.
Contributors address how designers, design historians and design thinkers might respond to the global challenges of time, the rhythms of work, and the increasing speed of life and communication between different communities. They consider how the past informs the present and the future in terms of design; the importance of time-based design practices such as rapid prototyping and slow design, time in relation to memory and forgetting, and artefacts such as the archive for which time is key, and ponder the design of time itself.
Showcasing the work of fifteen design scholars from a range of international contexts, the book provides an essential text for thinking about changing attitudes to the temporal.
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Foreword
Barry Curtis, Royal College of Art, UK
Introduction
Zoe Hendon and Anne Massey, independent, UK
Section I: Millennia, Centuries
1. Designing stone: temporal representation of a timeless material
Seher Erdogan Ford, Temple University, USA
2. 'The drama of the soul': time, eternity and evolution in the designs of Phoebe Anna Traquair
Sally Anne Huxtable, National Museums Scotland, UK
3. Time aboard the Ghan: Alice Springs to Adelaide, March 2016
Anne Burke, Middlesex University, UK
Section II: Centuries, Decades, Years
4 As good as apple pie? Post-unification Germany and the reception of public art from the former German Democratic Republic
Jessica Jenkins, Falmouth University, UK
5. The story of a Portuguese cock and other knick-knacks: heritage, propaganda and design in a far-right dictatorship
Carlos Bártolo, Universidade Lusíada, Portugal
6. An experiment with time: modern and classical influences in the planning of 'high and over'
Michael Findlay, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand
7. Making 'atomic' history: consuming historical narratives in the 'unofficial' digital archive
Emily Candela, Royal College of Art, UK
8. A queer feeling and its future in/for design history
John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada
Section III: Days, Hours, Seconds
9. Tube time: How the subterranean city got faster by design
David Lawrence, Kingston University and London Transport Museum, UK
10. Dreams of The Fun Palace and Plug-In City: architectural modularism and cybernetics in the 1960s
Claire McAndrew, University College London, UK
11. Sign of the times: slow design in the age of social acceleration
Niels Peter Skou, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
12. Fast and slow: design and the experience of time
Stephen Hayward, Central St Martins, UK
13. Delivered in less than sixty seconds: temporal references in the design and discourse of digital reading devices
Toke Riis Ebbesen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
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