Full Description
Design culture foregrounds the relationships between the domains of design practice, design production and everyday life. Its focus is on contemporary designed objects and the networks between the multiple actors engaged in their shaping, functioning and reproduction. It acknowledges the rise of design and the role of the designer as key components and key challenges of the modern world.
Featuring an impressive range of international case studies, ranging from examples of everyday design such as IKEA furniture and amateur graphic design, to the role of the design professional and the functioning of design within organisations, Design Culture interrogates what this emergent discipline is, its methodologies, its scope and its relationships with other fields of study. The volume's interdisciplinary approach brings fresh thinking to this fast-evolving field of study.
Contents
Introducing Design Culture
Section 1: Developing Design Culture
Introduction
Design Culturing: Making Design History Matter, Kjetil Fallan
Taste and Attunement: Design Culture as World Making, Ben Highmore
Embedding Design in the Organisational Culture: Challenges and Perspectives, Alessandro Deserti and Francesca Rizzo
Use in Design Culture, Toke Riis Ebbesen
Section 2: Addressing Market and Society
Introduction
A Brand for Everyone, Sara Kristoffersson
Buying into the Future: A Case Study of a Danish Brand of Fashionable Children's Clothing, Trine Brun Petersen
The Glowing Black of fritz-kola. Aestheticisation in Design Culture, Mads Nygaard Folkmann
Section 3: Positioning Design Professions
Introduction
Design Culture in the Sex Toy Industry: a new phenomenon, Judith Glover
Working from Home: Fashioning the Professional Designer in Britain, Leah Armstrong
On the Professional and Everyday Design of Graphic Artifacts, Sarah Owens
The Fixing I: Repair as Prefigurative Politics, Gabriele Oropallo
Section 4: Locating Design Culture
Introduction
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed: Relocating Kähler's brand heritage, Niels Peter Skou
Performing Turkish Design in Products, Collections and Exhibitions: Expanding the Archive, Seeking Depth, Harun Kaygan
A Theoretical Straddle: Design Culture between National Structures and Transnational Networks, Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz and Katarina Serulus
The Challenges and Opportunities of introducing Design Culture in Jordan, Danah Abdulla
Epilogue: Design Culture as Practice
Index
