Full Description
Design Roots provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products and practices which are rooted to particular communities through making tradition and a sense of place. Many rich traditional practices associated with community, tacit knowledge and culture are being rapidly lost due to globalisation and urbanisation. Yet they have much to offer for the future in terms of sustainability, identity, wellbeing and new opportunities in design. This book considers the creative roots, the place-based ecologies, and deep understandings of cultural significance, not only in terms of history and tradition but also in terms of locale, social interactions, innovation, and change for the sustainment of culturally significant material productions. Importantly, these are not locked in time by sentimentality and nostalgia but are evolving, innovative, and adaptive to new technologies and changing circumstances. Contributing authors explore the historical roots of culturally significant designs, products and practices, emerging directions, amateur endeavours, enterprise models, business opportunities and the changing role and contribution of design in the creation of material cultures of significance, meaning and value. An international perspective is provided through case studies and research from North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australasia, with examples including Aran jumper production in Northern Ireland, weaving in Thailand, Iranian housing design, Brazilian street design and digital crafting in the United Kingdom.
Contents
Editorial IntroductionStuart Walker - Lancaster University, UKPart I Introduction: Culturally Significant Designs, Products and PracticesMartyn Evans - Manchester Metropolitan University, UKChapter 1: Creative Ecologies: Contextualising Culturally Significant Designs, Products and PracticesJeyon Jung and Stuart Walker - Lancaster University, UKChapter 2: Forging New Futures: Cultural Significance, Revitalisation and AuthenticityAmy Twigger Holroyd - Nottingham Trent University, UKChapter 3: Culturally Significant Artefacts and Their Relationship to Tradition and SustainabilityStuart Walker - Lancaster University, UKChapter 4: Making and its Cultural Ecological FoundationsPatrick Dillon - University of Exeter, UKPart II Introduction: Authenticity and Tradition in Material CultureAmy Twigger Holroyd - Nottingham Trent University, UKChapter 5: The Aran JumperSiun Carden - University of the Highlands and Islands, UKChapter 6: Chok Weaving and Textile Enterprises from Northern ThailandDisaya Chudasri - Lancaster University, UKChapter 7: Oltu-Stone Prayer Beads: A Journey into the Art of Carving TasbihHazal Gumus Ciftci - Lancaster University, UKChapter 8: The Mian Sara: Traditional Iranian Homes and SustainabilityPoone Yazdanpanah and Stuart Walker - Lancaster University, UKChapter 9: IKEA: Mass-produced National Design IdentitySara S. Kristoffersson - Konstfack University College, SwedenPart III Introduction: Revitalisation by DesignTom Cassidy - University of Leeds, UKChapter 10: Culture as a Resource for a Sustainable Future in Indigenous Communities: Strengthening Atikamekw Identity and Economics through DesignAnne Marchand, Karine Awashish, Christian Coocoo, Solen Roth, Renata Marques Leitao, Cedric Sportes and Caoimhe Isha Beaule - University of Montreal, CanadaChapter 11: Transforming Tradition in Indonesia: A Method for Maintaining Tradition in a Craft and Design ContextAdhi Nugraha - Aalto University, FinlandChapter 12: New Translations of South Korean PatternsMeong Jin Shin - University of Leeds, UKChapter 13: Revitalisation by DesignSebastian Cox - Sebastian Cox Ltd, UKChapter 14: New Caribbean Design: Revitalising Place-based ProductsPatty Johnson - Patty Johnson Design, CanadaPart IV Introduction: Enterprise, Policy and Education for Positive DevelopmentJeyon Jung - Lancaster University, UKChapter 15: Sustaining Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices: Lessons from the HohokamJacques Giard - Arizona State University, USAChapter 16: Accidents, Intentions, Movements and Makers: Artisan Economy in Portland, Oregon, USASteven Marotta, Austin Cummins and Charles Heying, Portland State University, USAChapter 17: The Role of Higher Education in Sustaining Culturally Significant Crafts in EstoniaSirpa Kokko - University of Helsinki, FinlandChapter 18: The Challenge of Intellectual Property Rights for Culturally Significant Patterns, Products and ProcessesTom Cassidy and Tracy Diane Cassidy - University of Leeds, UKChapter 19: The Case of the City Different: The Intersection of the Museum, the Artist and the MarketplaceMarsha C. Bol - Carnegie Museum of Natural History, USAPart V Introduction: Design FuturesStuart Walker and Martyn Evans - Lancaster University, UK and Manchester Metropolitan University, UKChapter 20: Research Approaches for Culturally Significant DesignTom Cassidy - University of Leeds, UKChapter 21: Digital Transformations, Amateur Making and the Revitalisation of Traditional Textile CraftsAmy Twigger Holroyd - Nottingham Trent University, UKChapter 22: Design for Social InnovatorsAnna Meroni and Daniela Selloni - Politechnico di Milano, ItalyChapter 23: Integrated Scales of Design and Production for Sustainability with a Focus on Graduate Design Work in LightingCagla Dogan - Middle Eastern Technical University, TurkeyChapter 24: Designing Authentic Brands: How Designerly Approaches can Craft Authentic Brand IdentityEmma Murphy - Glasgow School of Art, UKChapter 25: Strategies for Revitalisation of Culturally Significant Designs, Products and PracticesMartyn Evans, Amy Twigger Holroyd, Stuart Walker, Tom Cassidy and Jeyon Jung - Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Nottingham Trent University, UK, Lancaster University, UK and University of Leeds, UKEndmatterIndex
