Table of Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reassessing Design through Agency
John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada
SECTION I – Designing Identities
Introduction
Marie-Ève Marchand, Concordia University, Canada
1. Period Decor and the Negotiation of Social Relationships in the Home
Marie-Ève Marchand, Concordia University, Canada
2. Designs on Modernity: Gertrud Loew's Vienna Apartment and Situated Agency
Sabine Wieber, University of Glasgow, UK
3. Gifted Design: Imperial Benevolence in the Needlework of Mary Seton Watts
Elaine Cheasley Paterson, Concordia University, Canada
4. Beyond the Couch: Anna Freud and the Analytic Environment
Amélie Elizabeth Pelly, Concordia University, Canada
5. Multum in parvo: Scale and Agency in the Thorne Miniature Rooms
Erin J. Campbell, University of Victoria, Australia
6. Listening for Design: Agency and History in a Philips Aachen-Super D52
Michael Windover, Carleton University, Canada
7. Agency, Art and Architecture in Medical Murals by Mary Filer and Marian Dale Scott
Annmarie Adams, McGill University, Canada
8. Duelling Over Domes: Jeffrey Lindsay and Buckminster Fuller Cross Struts and Sprits in the US Patent Office
Cammie McAtee, National Gallery of Canada, Canada
9. Desperately Seeking Sunlight: Le Corbusier's Casa Curutchet and The Man Next Door
Mark Taylor, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
SECTION II – Systems&Institutions of Design
Introduction
Marie-Ève Marchand, Concordia University, Canada
10. The Dry Goods Economist and the Role of Mass Media in the Creation of a Global Window Design Aesthetic at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Anca I. Lasc, Pratt Institute, USA
11. National Cash Register Company's Boys' Garden: Shaping Working-Class Childhoods and Future Workers, 1897-1913
Sara Nicole England, independent, Canada
12. Women as Agents of Change in the Design of the Workplace
Lynn Chalmers, independent, Canada
13. Stand-in or Act-out: Period Rooms as Spaces of Agency
Änne Söll, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany and Stefan Krämer, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
14. Agent Bruce Mau and the Audacity of Design
Rachel Gotlieb, Sheridan College, Canada
15. From Indian to Indigenous Agency: Opportunities and Challenges for Architectural Design
David Fortin, Laurentian University, Canada
16. Design History and Dyslexia
Anne Massey, University of Huddersfield, UK
17. Textual Agency: Pitfalls and Potentials
Jessica Hemmings, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
18. Design's Performative Agency: Thoughts and New Directions for Materiality, Ontology and Identity-Making
Ece Canli, Research Insitute for Design, Media and Culture, Portugal
Index