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Designing worlds : national design histories in an age of globalization /

Contributor(s): Fallan, Kjetil [editor] | Lees-Maffei, Grace [editor].
Series: Making sense of history: Publisher: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2016Description: xii, 281 p. : ill., plates ; 27 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | computer Carrier type: volume | online resourceISBN: 9781785331565; 9781785331565:; 9781785331558; 9781785338328.Subject(s): Design -- History | Globalization -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 745.409
Contents:
Introduction : national design histories in an age of globalization / Grace Lees-Maffei and Kjetil Fallan - Designs in/on Africa / Dipti Bhagat - Does Southern African design history exist? / Deirdre Pretorius - Designing the South African nation : from nature to culture / Jacques Lange and Jeanne van Eeden - Resisting global homogeneity but craving global markets : Kiwiana and contemporary design practice in New Zealand / Claudia Bell - Creativity within a geographical-national framework: from modern Japanese design to Pevsner's art geography / Ariyuki Kondo - Imagining the Indian nation : the design of Gandhi's Dandi March and Nehru's Republic Day Parade / Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan - Troubled geography : imagining Lebanon in 1960s tourist promotion / Zeina Maasri - Czech class or Bohemian crystal? The nationality of design in the Czech context / Marta Filipová - The myth of Danish design and the implicit claims of labels / Stina Teilmann-Lock - Altering a homogenized heritage : articulating heterogeneous material cultures in Norway and Sweden / Kjetil Fallan and Christina Zetterlund - A special relationship : the UK-US transatlantic domestic dialogue / Grace Lees-Maffei - Surveying the borders: 'authenticity' in Mexican-American food packaging, imagery and architecture / Nicolas P. Maffei - An empire of one's own : individualism and domestic built form in twenty-first-century Jamaica / Davinia Gregory - The quest for modernity : a global/national approach to a history of design in Latin America / Patricia Lara-Betancourt - Of coffee, nature and exclusion : designing Brazilian national identity at international exhibitions (1867 and 1904) / Livia Rezende.
Summary: From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western, industrialised nations. This diverse but rigorously curated collection recalibrates our understanding of design history, reassessing regional and national cultures while situating them within an international context.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : national design histories in an age of globalization / Grace Lees-Maffei and Kjetil Fallan - Designs in/on Africa / Dipti Bhagat - Does Southern African design history exist? / Deirdre Pretorius - Designing the South African nation : from nature to culture / Jacques Lange and Jeanne van Eeden - Resisting global homogeneity but craving global markets : Kiwiana and contemporary design practice in New Zealand / Claudia Bell - Creativity within a geographical-national framework: from modern Japanese design to Pevsner's art geography / Ariyuki Kondo - Imagining the Indian nation : the design of Gandhi's Dandi March and Nehru's Republic Day Parade / Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan - Troubled geography : imagining Lebanon in 1960s tourist promotion / Zeina Maasri - Czech class or Bohemian crystal? The nationality of design in the Czech context / Marta Filipová - The myth of Danish design and the implicit claims of labels / Stina Teilmann-Lock - Altering a homogenized heritage : articulating heterogeneous material cultures in Norway and Sweden / Kjetil Fallan and Christina Zetterlund - A special relationship : the UK-US transatlantic domestic dialogue / Grace Lees-Maffei - Surveying the borders: 'authenticity' in Mexican-American food packaging, imagery and architecture / Nicolas P. Maffei - An empire of one's own : individualism and domestic built form in twenty-first-century Jamaica / Davinia Gregory - The quest for modernity : a global/national approach to a history of design in Latin America / Patricia Lara-Betancourt - Of coffee, nature and exclusion : designing Brazilian national identity at international exhibitions (1867 and 1904) / Livia Rezende.

From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western, industrialised nations. This diverse but rigorously curated collection recalibrates our understanding of design history, reassessing regional and national cultures while situating them within an international context.

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