1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Design Studies
Since the 1990s, in response to dramatic transformations in the worlds of technology and the economy, design – a once relatively definable discipline, complete with a set of subdisciplines – has become unrecognizable. Consequently, design scholars have begun to address new issues, themes and sub-disciplines such as: sustainable design, design for well-being, empathic design, design activism, design anthropology, and many more.
The Routledge Companion to Design Studies charts this new expanded spectrum and embraces the wide range of scholarship relating to design – theoretical, practice-related and historical – that has emerged over the past four decades. Comprising forty-three newly commissioned chapters, the Companion is organized into the following six sections:
- Defining design: discipline, process
- Defining design: objects, spaces
- Designing identities: gender, sexuality, age, nation
- Designing society: empathy, responsibility, consumption, the everyday
- Design and politics: activism, intervention, regulation
- Designing the world: globalization, transnationalism, translation.
Contributors include both established and emerging scholars and the chapters offer an international scope, covering work emanating from, and relating to, design in the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, North America, Asia, Australasia and Africa.
This comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of Design Studies.
INTRODUCTION
Penny Sparke
PART ONE
Defining Design: Discipline, Process
- Penelope Dean
- Jilly Traganou
- Alison Prendiville
- Louise Valentine
- Christopher Boyko, Yi Chang Lee, Rachel Cooper,
- Lois Weinthal
- Janice Helland
- Robert Friedel
- Paul Atkinson
- Victoria Kelley
- Trevor Keeble
- Marilyn Cohen
- Viviana Narotzky
- Christopher Breward
- Penny Sparke
- John Potvin
- Amy F. Ogata
- Noel Waite
- Paul Hazell
- Jeremy Aynsley
- Kjetil Fallan
- Barbara Penner
- Deana McDonagh
- Joseph McBrinn
- Rama Gheerawo
- Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe
- Ming Cheung
- Prasad Boradkar
- Ben Highmore
- Tony Fry
- Alison J. Clarke
- Eeva Berglund
- Stuart Walker
- Rebecca Reubens
- Fiona Fisher
Free For All
Wall Street Bounded and Unbinding: The Spatial as a Multifocal Lens in Design Studies
Connectivity Through Service Design
A Curious Journey into an Unknown World
Design Decision Making
Drawing the Dotted Line
The Craft and Design of Dressmaking, 1880 -1907
PART TWO
Defining Design: Objects, Spaces
Artifice, Materials and the Choices of Design
Writing the Design History of Computers
Keeping it on the Surface: Design, Surfaces and Taste
Table Stories: History, Meaning and Narrative in Contemporary Homemaking
Wall Street(s)
Beyond Perfection. Object and process in twenty-first century design and material culture
PART THREE
Designing Identities: Gender, Sexuality, Age, Nation
Modern Dressing: the suit as practice and symbol
Arranging the Aspidistras: nature, culture and the design of the feminine sphere in the nineteenth century
From Bright Young Thing to Vile Body to Posthumous Reliquary: Stephen Tennant, queer excess and the decadent interior
Designing Childhood
Futures Fairs: Industrial exhibitions in New Zealand 1865-1925
A Difficult Road: Designing a post-colonial car for Africa
The Cultural Representation of Graphic Design in East and West Germany, 1949 to 1970
A Match Made in Utopia: the uneasy love affair of art and industry in Scandinavia
PART FOUR
Designing Society: Empathy, Responsibility, Consumption, the Everyday
From Ergonomics to Empathy: Herman Miller and MetaForm
How Products Satisfy Needs Beyond the Functional: empathy supporting consumer-product relationships
Refashioning disability: the case of Painted Fabrics Ltd, 1915-1959
Socially Inclusive Design: a people-centred perspective
What is "Socially Responsive Design and Innovation"?
Use Experience Design in Digital Service Information
Design + Anthropology: An Emergent Discipline
Design, Daily Life and Matters of Taste
PART FIVE
Design and Politics: Activism, Intervention, Regulation
Configuring Design as Politics Now
Design for the Real World: Victor Papanek and the Emergence of Humane Design
Impossible Maybe, Perhaps Quite Likely: Activist design in Helsinki’s urban wastelands
Design for Meaningful Innovation
Towards Holistic Sustainability Design: The Rhizome Approach
Regulating Design: Spaces and Boundaries of the Late Nineteenth-Century Public House
PART SIX
Designing the World: Globalization, Transnationalism, Translation
- Victor Margolin
- Grace Lees-Maffei
- Meltem O Gürel
- Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz
- Tanishka Kachru
- Elise Hodson
- Christine Guth
- Yuko Kikuchi
A World History of Design
"Why Then the World’s my Oyster": Consumption and Globalization, 1851 to now
Designing and Consuming the Modern in Turkey
Three Dutchnesses of Dutch Design: The Construction of a National Practice at the Intersection of National and International Dynamics
The Staging of Indian National Identity Through Exhibitions, 1850-1947
Exhibiting Independent India: Textiles and Ornamental Arts at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
Design before Design in Japan
The Cold War Design Business of John D. Rockefeller 3rd
Biography
Penny Sparke is a Professor of Design History and Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London. Her publications include Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration (2005), The Modern Interior (2008) and An Introduction to Design and Culture, 1900 to the Present, 3rd edition (2012). She is the present Chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Design History.
Fiona Fisher is a Researcher in Design History at the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC), Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, where she is Curator of the University's Dorich House Museum. Her publications include Designing the British Post-War Home: Kenneth Wood, 1948–1968 (2015) and, co-edited with Christopher Breward and Ghislaine Wood, British Design: Tradition and Modernity after 1948 (2015). She is the present Managing Editor of the Journal of Design History.