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history of design [issues+ideas] introductionTRANSCRIPT
DSDN171: history of design [issues & ideas]
“Design is one of the basic characteristics of what it is to be human, and an essential
determinant of the quality of human life…As such, it matters profoundly.”John Heskett, Toothpicks&Logos: design and everyday life, 2002
history of design history of styles
“The narrative historian always has the privilege of deciding that continuity cuts better into certain lengths than into others. He never is required to defend his cut, because history cuts anywhere with equal ease, and a good story can begin anywhere the teller chooses.”
George Kubler, The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962), 2.
history of design ≠ history of styles
A.W.N Pugin and Gothic Revival [Reform]: 1840s
history of design ≠ history of styles
William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement: 1870s‐90s
history of design ≠ history of styles
Art Nouveau, Jugendstil, and Liberty style: 1890s
history of design ≠ history of styles
Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstätte: 1900‐10s
history of design ≠ history of styles
Art Moderne/ Art Deco: 1920s
history of design ≠ history of styles
Modernism and the Bauhaus: 1920s‐30s
history of design ≠ history of styles
International Style: 1940s
history of design ≠ history of styles
Organic modernism:1950s
history of design ≠ history of styles
Pop: 1960‐70s
history of design ≠ history of styles
Post modernism: 1970s ‐80s
history of design ≠ history of styles
contemporary plurality: 2000 ‐ ??
history of design issues + ideas
DSDN 171: History of Design [issues + ideas]
natureo r n a m e n t
b e a u t yu t i l i t y
c l a s s t a s t ed e g e n e r a t e
c r i m e
polit icsd i s p l a y c o n s u m e r i s m
i n d u s t r i a l i s a t i o nm o d e r n i t y n a t i o n a l i s m
DSDN 171: History of Design [issues + ideas]
visionp h o t o g r a p h y f i l m
p a n o r a m a s p e c t a c l es p a c e d u r a t i o nc o m m u n i c a t i o n
DSDN 171: History of Design [issues + ideas]
DSDN 171: History of Design [issues + ideas]
new media/ old media
digitization modularity
automation
variability
transcoding
"It is the relationship among things‐‐rather than the things themselves‐‐that gives objects their identities. Though we tend to regard them as having stable and enduring characteristics, the determination of 'thingness' is more a matter of groupings and classifications than it is a consequence of inherent material properties. Objects require limits in order to be distinguished from the field of reciprocal relations in which they exist, but the limits we impose upon them are a function of our perception rather than a property of their thingness.“
Keith Mitnick, Artificial Light: a narrative inquiry into the nature of abstraction, immediacy and other architectural fictions (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008), 42.
DSDN 171: Course Coordinator
Margaret Maile Petty
DSDN 171: Tutors
Nan O’SullivanJason PettyEve Gilliland