1st Edition

Design, Displacement, Migration Spatial and Material Histories

Edited By Sarah A. Lichtman, Jilly Traganou Copyright 2024
306 Pages 18 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 18 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 18 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices—spanning design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation; poetry; activism; and social sciences––to interrogate the intersections of design and displacement. The contributors foreground objects, spaces, visual, and material practices and consider design’s role... Read more

Table of Contents:

1. An Introduction to Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories

 Jilly Traganou and Sarah A. Lichtman,

2. Provisional Demos: The Spatial Agency of Tent Cities

Mabel O. Wilson

3.  Being-in-the-World Displaced

Tony Fry 

4. Without Us There Is No You: Displaced Material Culture of Americans at The National Museum of the American Indian

Paul Chaat Smith, including a dialogue with Carin Kuoni

5.  Picturing Displacement: Moving Panoramas, Print Culture, and the Pictorial Slave Narrative of Pedro Tovookan Parris

Martha J. McNamara

6.  Countering Displacement through Collective Memory: Recovering African American Landscapes Using The Texas Freedom Colonies Project Atlas

Andrea Roberts

7. Nothing Ever Goes Away

Macushla Robinson

8.  Reframing Modern Design as Displacement: A Discussion through Decolonial Thinking on the Brazilian Experience

Livia Rezende

9.  Place and Displacement in the Production of Swedish Modernity: A Suggestion for a Multi-sited Design History

Christina Zetterlund

10.  Reconsidering Gender at RISD: Interior Architecture Education and Austrian Emigre Architect Ernst Lichtblau

Michelle Jackson-Beckett

11.  "It was Jamaican Style, and They Didn’t Have Anything Like That in England": An Oral History Account of Self-fashioning

Elli Michaela Young

12. Design by Disaster: ICSID and the League of Red Cross Societies (1971–1979)

Tania Messell

13. Your Eyes Bother Us

Parwana Amiri

14.  Dispatch from the Aegean, 2021-22

Marc Lepson

15.  The Architecture of Emergency Shelters in the 2015 European Refugee Accommodation Crisis

Sophia Vyzoviti

16. The Spatial Simulation of Displacement: Notes on the Representation of the "Refugee Crisis"

Aikaterini Antonopoulou

17.  Amending Wall

Darrel Alejandro Holnes

18. Pluralizing the Code: Designed National Symbols Beyond Reverence

Javier Gimeno-Martínez

19. Displaced Energy Practices: Autonomous Design in the Context of Humanitarian Intervention in Goudoubo Camp, Burkina Faso

Craig Martin, Jamie Cross and Arno Verhoeven,

20. Displacement as Protest Strategy: Political Resistance and Design Activism in the 2019–2020 Anti-ELAB Hong Kong Protests

Kyle Kwok

21.  Emplacing Displacement: A Conversation

Irit Katz, Mahmoud Keshavarz and Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi

Biography

Sarah A. Lichtman is Chair of the History of Art and Design department at Pratt Institute.

Jilly Traganou is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Parsons School of Design.