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]
nature
ornament beauty utility class taste degenerate crime
DSDN 171: History of Design [issues + ideas]
politics display consumerism industrialisation modernity nationalism
DSDN 171: History of Design [issues + ideas]
vision photography film panorama spectacle space duration communication
DSDN 171: History of Design [issues + ideas]
new media/ old media automation
transcoding
variability digitization
modularity
"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’Sullivan Jason Petty Eve Gilliland