INTRODUCTION
Penny Sparke
PART ONE
Defining Design: Discipline, Process
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: The Spaces and Boundaries of the Late Nineteenth-Century Public House
PART SIX
Designing the World: Globalization, Transnationalism, Translation
A World History of Design
"Why Then the World’s my Oyster": Consumption and Globalization, 1851 to the Present
Designing and Consuming the Modern in Turkey
Three Dutchnesses of Dutch Design: The Construction of a National Practice at the InterPART 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
Penny Sparke is a Professor of Design History and Director of the
Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) at 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).
Fiona Fisher is a Researcher in Design History at the Modern
Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) at Kingston University, London.
Her recent 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).
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