Title & Author:

The responsible object : a history of design ideology for the future / Marjanne van Helvert (ed.) ; with contributions by Andrea Bandoni, Ece Canli, Alison J. Clarke, Éva Forgács, Marjanne van Helvert, Susan R. Henderson, Ed van Hinte, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, & Pedro J.S. Vieira de Oliveira.

Publication:

Amsterdam : Valiz ; Melbourne : Ueberschwarz, 2016.
©2016

Description:

288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-278) and index.
Introduction : A design history for the future / Marjanne van Helvert -- William Morris, arts and crafts, and the idea of eco-socialist design / Elizabeth Carolyn Miller -- A political education : the historical legacy of the German Bauhaus and the Moscow VKhUTEMAS / Éva Forgács -- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky : a career in the design politics of the everyday / Susan R. Henderson -- Good design for everyone : scarcity, equality, and utility in the Second World War / Marjanne van Helvert -- Design for consumer society : planned obsolescence, styling, and irresponsible objects / Marjanne van Helvert -- The Buckminster Fuller mission / Ed van Hinte -- The humanitarian object : Victor Papanek and the struggle for responsible design / Alison J. Clarke -- Counterculture and anti-design : postmodern appropriations of Utopia / Marjanne van Helvert -- Design history interrupted : a queer-feminist perspective / Ece Canlı -- The digital age reaches the fringes : a public fab lab in Brazil and its (possible) implications for design / Andrea Bandoni -- If not tomorrow, then today : paradigms of Latin American design / Luiza Prado de O. Martins & Pedro J.S. Vieira de Oliveira -- Responsible objects, utopian desires : a two-sided monologue on the future of design / Marjanne van Helvert.

Summary:

What would future archaeologists think of our time, if they were to dig in the places that used to house our civilization? They would discover countless dumpsites of things we threw away: plastic and metal objects, still smouldering heaps of discarded electronics, synthetic textiles, and other things that do not decompose within a foreseeable amount of time. They would find the leftovers of an age of rampant, imperishable objects. Today, in an economic system that revolves around producing and consuming these objects, we are starting to review their role in a series of challenges that lie ahead of us. In the design discipline, sustainability and social responsibility have become prolific epithets, generating new products, materials, and technologies, designed to change the course of our future. The intrinsic design ideologies are often not new, but form a fundamental part of design history, reappearing throughout the previous centuries. This book presents a history of socially committed design strategies within the western design tradition, from William Morris to Victor Papanek, and from VKhUTEMAS to Fab Lab.

ISBN:

9789492095190 (pbk.)
949209519X (pbk.)

Subject:

Design History.
Sustainable design.
Design Histoire.
Écoconception.
sustainable architecture.
DESIGN Essays.
Design.
Art and Design.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Helvert, Marjanne van, editor.
Bandoni, Andrea, author.
Canli, Ece, De author.
Clarke, Alison J., author.
Forgács, Éva, author.
Henderson, Susan R., 1951- author.
Hinte, Ed van, 1951- author.
Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, 1974- author.
Martins, Luiza Prado de O., author.
Oliveira, Pedro J. S. Vieira de, author.

History of design ideology for the future

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294345
Call No.: BIB 239882
Status: Available