International Design Organizations, Kartoniert / Broschiert
International Design Organizations
- Histories, Legacies, Values
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- Herausgeber:
- Jeremy Aynsley, Alison J. Clarke, Tania Messell
- Verlag:
- Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 02/2026
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781526697127
- Artikelnummer:
- 12485409
- Umfang:
- 352 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 454 g
- Maße:
- 234 x 156 mm
- Stärke:
- 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 19.2.2026
- Serie:
- Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
This innovative volume brings together international design scholars to address the history and present-day status of national and international design organizations, working across design disciplines and located in countries including Argentina, Turkey, Estonia, Switzerland, Italy, China and the USA.
In the second half of the 20th century, many non-governmental organizations were created to address urgent cultural, economic and welfare issues. Design organizations set out to create an international consensus for the future direction of design. This included enhancing communication between professionals, educators and practitioners, raising standards for design, and creating communities of designers across linguistic, national and political borders. Shared needs and agendas were identified and categories of design constantly defined and re-defined, often with overt cultural and political intents.
Drawing on an impressive range of original research, archival sources and oral testimony, this volume questions the aims and achievements of national and international design organizations in light of their subsequent histories and their global remits. The Cold War period is central to the book, while many chapters draw on post-colonial perspectives to interpret how transnational networks and negotiations took place at events and congresses, and through publication.
Biografie (Alison J. Clarke)
Alison J. Clarke received a Masters (RCA) with Distinction in History of Design from the Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1990) and went on to complete a PhD. in Social Anthropology, University College London (2001). She joined the University of Applied Arts Vienna, as a full-professor in 2003 having previously held a senior faculty position in Design History and Material Culture at the Royal College of Art, London. She has supervised students of design and material culture at undergraduate and post-graduate level over a period of twenty years as a Senior Faculty member of the University of Brighton, University of Southampton and Royal College of Art, London. She has held guest-lecturing posts at Chelsea College of Art, Central St. Martins School of Art & Design, University of Arts London and acted as Guest Professor in Design History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 1998 - 2003.§ Alison J. Clarke has presented research and lectured internationally at institutions including Parsons School for Design, NYC; National Museum of American History, Washington DC; University of Oxford: University College London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Centre for Consumer Science, Sweden; and Institute of Historical Research, London.§She is presently engaged in several research projects including 'Doing Kinship with Pictures and Objects' (WWTF); 'The Victor Papanek Archive and Library' (BMWF); 'Home Interiors in Mass Observation' (AHRC).
