Design, History and Time: New Temporalities in a Digital Age

by Zoë Hendon (Editor), Anne Massey (Editor)

Overview

Design, History and Time reflects on the nature of time in relation to design, in both past and contemporary contexts. In contrast to a traditional design historical approach which emphasises schools and movements, this volume addresses time as a continuum and considers the importance of temporality for design practice and history.

Contributors address how designers, design historians and design thinkers might respond to the global challenges of time, the rhythms of work, and the increasing speed of life and communication between different communities. They consider how the past informs the present and the future in terms of design; the importance of time-based design practices such as rapid prototyping and slow design, time in relation to memory and forgetting, and artefacts such as the archive for which time is key, and ponder the design of time itself.

Showcasing the work of fifteen design scholars from a range of international contexts, the book provides an essential text for thinking about changing attitudes to the temporal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350060661
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/21/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	30 MB
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About the Author

Anne Massey is Professor of Design and Culture at London College of Communication, UK. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including Pop Art and Design (2017) and Hollywood Beyond the Screen (2000).

Zoë Hendon is Head of Collections at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, UK. She has published articles in the Journal of Decorative Arts and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Design History.
Zoë Hendon is Head of Collections and Associate Professor (Practice) at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA), Middlesex University, UK. She is the author of Wallpaper (Shire Publications, 2018) and has published articles in journals such as Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education, Journal of Decorative Arts, Architecture and Culture and Museum and Society and Journal of Design History for which she is a member of the editorial board.
Anne Massey is Professorial Fellow in Design and Culture at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including Pop Art and Design (2017), Designing the Modern Interior (2009) and Hollywood Beyond the Screen (2000), all published by Bloomsbury. She is known for her work on the Independent Group and post-war British culture, including The Independent Group: Modernism and Mass Culture in Britain, 1945-59 (1995).

Table of Contents

List of figures
List of contributors

Foreword
Barry Curtis, Royal College of Art, UK

Introduction
Zoe Hendon and Anne Massey, independent, UK

Section I: Millennia, Centuries

1. Designing stone: temporal representation of a timeless material
Seher Erdogan Ford, Temple University, USA

2. 'The drama of the soul': time, eternity and evolution in the designs of Phoebe Anna Traquair
Sally Anne Huxtable, National Museums Scotland, UK

3. Time aboard the Ghan: Alice Springs to Adelaide, March 2016
Anne Burke, Middlesex University, UK

Section II: Centuries, Decades, Years

4 As good as apple pie? Post-unification Germany and the reception of public art from the former German Democratic Republic
Jessica Jenkins, Falmouth University, UK

5. The story of a Portuguese cock and other knick-knacks: heritage, propaganda and design in a far-right dictatorship
Carlos Bártolo, Universidade Lusíada, Portugal

6. An experiment with time: modern and classical influences in the planning of 'high and over'
Michael Findlay, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand

7. Making 'atomic' history: consuming historical narratives in the 'unofficial' digital archive
Emily Candela, Royal College of Art, UK

8. A queer feeling and its future in/for design history
John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada

Section III: Days, Hours, Seconds

9. Tube time: How the subterranean city got faster by design
David Lawrence, Kingston University and London Transport Museum, UK

10. Dreams of The Fun Palace and Plug-In City: architectural modularism and cybernetics in the 1960s
Claire McAndrew, University College London, UK

11. Sign of the times: slow design in the age of social acceleration
Niels Peter Skou, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

12. Fast and slow: design and the experience of time
Stephen Hayward, Central St Martins, UK

13. Delivered in less than sixty seconds: temporal references in the design and discourse of digital reading devices
Toke Riis Ebbesen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Select Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Design, History and Time offers a challenge to design historians. It asks them to consider how assumptions about time as a measure of social value are 'baked in' to our thinking about design. It also offers ways to work through these assumptions and fixed representations, by putting a critical analysis of time at the forefront of design history.” —Jourbanal of Design History

“Part history, part travelogue, part meditation on the meaning of time, Design, History and Time offers challenging thoughts on the nature of time and playful reflections on popular culture.” —Elizabeth Guffey, Professor of Art and Design History at the State University of New York at Purchase, USA

“From the permanence of cathedrals whose very construction spanned centuries to the inherent obsolescence of digital communication devices, this fascinating collection forces reconsideration of society's changing relationship with time over time.” —Paul Atkinson, Professor of Design History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK

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