Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960-1980

Revolt and Resilience
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-31351-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Design History

Covering the 1960s and 1970s, this volume explores new ways of investigating, comparing and interpreting the different domains of design culture across the Nordic countries.

Challenging the traditional narrative, this volume argues that the roots of the most prominent features of Nordic design’s contemporary significance are not to be found amongst the objects for the home collectively branded as ‘Scandinavian Design’ to great acclaim in the 1950s, but in the discourses, institutions and practices formed in the aftermath of that oft-told success story, during the turbulent period between 1960 and 1980. This is achieved by employing multidisciplinary approaches to connect the domains of industrial production, marketing, consumption, public institutions, design educations, trade journals as well as public debates and civic initiatives forming a design culture. This book makes a significant contribution to current, international agendas of historiographical critique focusing on transnational relations and the deconstruction of national design histories.

This book will be of interest to scholars in design, design history and Scandinavian studies.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fallan, Kjetil

Zetterlund, Christina

Munch, Anders V

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960–1980

Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund and Anders V. Munch

PART I: Transforming Discourse

1. The Way North: Merging Ideology and Methodology on the Road to Ecological Design

Kjetil Fallan

2. The Total, Global, Living ’Environment’: A Key Concept in the Danish Design Debate around 1970

Anders V. Munch and Hans-Christian Jensen

3. Students of Architecture as Environmental Activists: Two Sister Exhibitions about the Environmental Crisis in Sweden and Norway, 1968–1969

Beata Labuhn

4. Exhibition as a Critical Tool: A Conversation with Gunilla Lundahl on Exhibitions, Making Change and Participation

Christina Zetterlund

5. Nordic Revival: Crafting Rural Development in Finnish and Norwegian Design Discourse

Malin Graesse and Kaisu Savola

6. Sami Mobilisation: Institutions and Exhibitions in the 1970s

Anna Westman Kuhmunen

Part II: Transforming Institutions

7. Exhibiting New Cultures of Design: Representing the Cultural and Social Meanings of Design in Three Nordic Exhibitions

Peder Valle, Sabina Maria Rossau and Leena Svinhufvud

8. On a Stormy Sea: Design Education and Politics in Finland

Pekka Korvenmaa

9. Voices of Rebellion: Interviews with Former Students at the Copenhagen School of Arts and Crafts 1969

Vibeke Riisberg, Anders V. Munch and Patricia Fie Nielsen

10. Harmful or Useless? Victor Papanek and the Danish Design Students’ Protests

Anders V. Munch, Alison J. Clarke, Vibeke Riisberg and Lene Kiærbye Pedersen

PART III: Transforming Practices

11. Designing Together: On Histories of Scandinavian User-Centered Design

Maria Göransdotter

12. Between Craft and Commerce: Norwegian and Danish Textile Design in a Time of Change

Tone Rasch and Trine Brun Petersen

13. Sewing and Sisterhood: Elverhøj, the First Collective Craft Store in Copenhagen

Tau Lenskjold

14. Knowledge to the People: The Professionalisation of Graphic Design in the Norwegian Book Publishing Industry

Thomas T. Nordby

Über Autor(innen)

Kjetil Fallan is Professor of Design History at the University of Oslo.

Christina Zetterlund is Associate Professor of Design at Linneaus University, Växjö and curator for the project (Re-)learning the Archive at The Design Archive in Pukeberg.

Anders V. Munch is Professor of Design Culture at the University of Southern Denmark.