Design culture: objects and approaches

Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Image Credits......Page 8
List of Contributors......Page 9
Introducing Design Culture......Page 10
 Design culture as an object......Page 12
 Design culture as discipline......Page 14
 Contributions of this book......Page 16
 References......Page 17
Part One: Developing design culture......Page 20
  Introduction......Page 24
  Designification......Page 25
  Sustainification......Page 28
  Digitalization......Page 30
  Disciplination......Page 32
  References......Page 34
  Introduction......Page 37
  Culture and design culture......Page 38
  Bedding as cultural form......Page 40
  Taste and attunement......Page 44
  Conclusion......Page 46
  References......Page 47
 Chapter 3: Embedding design in the organizational culture: Challenges and perspectives......Page 48
  Confronting design thinking with design culture......Page 49
  Connecting design culture with organizations’ culture......Page 51
  Case studies comparison......Page 56
  Conclusion......Page 57
  References......Page 58
  Introduction......Page 61
  A contested concept in design......Page 62
  An inferential perspective......Page 64
  An outline of the useful......Page 66
  A model of use in context......Page 68
  Exceptions and fringe-cases of use......Page 69
  The heuristics of use in research......Page 71
  References......Page 72
Part Two: Addressing market and society......Page 76
 Chapter 5: A brand for everyone......Page 80
  Designing the Swedish model......Page 81
  Back to basics......Page 84
  No logo......Page 87
  The final chapter in the Swedish story......Page 89
  References......Page 90
 Chapter 6: Buying into the future: A case study of a Danish brand of fashionable children’s clothing......Page 92
  Framing the field of enquiry......Page 93
  The founding of Katvig......Page 94
  Katvig as sartorial discourse......Page 96
  Towards sustainability......Page 97
  Fashioning new patterns of consumption......Page 99
  Shrinking the design cultural circuit......Page 101
  References......Page 103
 Chapter 7: The Glowing Black of fritz-kola: Aestheticization in design culture......Page 105
  fritz-kola......Page 106
  Aestheticization......Page 109
  Aesthetics and Design Culture......Page 115
  References......Page 117
Part Three: Positioning design professions......Page 120
  Introduction......Page 124
  What exactly is the problem with the sex toy industry?......Page 126
  Design-led companies in the new millennium......Page 130
  Design culture in the context of this emerging phenomenon......Page 132
  Conclusion......Page 135
  References......Page 137
 Chapter 9: Working from home: Fashioning the professional designer in Britain......Page 140
  FHK Henrion: ‘The Home of an Artist and Designer in Pond Street, Hampstead’......Page 144
  Gaby Schreiber: An Eaton Square home......Page 146
  Working from home......Page 149
  References......Page 151
  Introduction......Page 154
  The order of graphic design discourse......Page 156
  Good design......Page 157
  Good designing......Page 160
  Good designers......Page 161
  References......Page 164
  Introduction......Page 166
  Broken world thinking......Page 167
  From repair shop to repair show......Page 171
  The fixing I: Individual action through repair......Page 174
  Conclusion......Page 176
  References......Page 177
Part Four: Locating design culture......Page 180
 Chapter 12: Something old, something new, something borrowed: Relocating Kähler’s brand heritage......Page 184
  Brand spaces......Page 187
  Shop – museum – theatre......Page 188
  Historicizing materiality and materializing history – from Omaggio to Hammershøi......Page 191
  Cold Kilns: Design, identity and the relocation of design culture......Page 194
  References......Page 196
  Introduction......Page 198
  Overview of the field......Page 200
  A brooch: Product as multiplicity......Page 201
  A coffee cup: Product as depth......Page 203
  An initiative: Production of depth......Page 204
  An exhibition: Recontextualization of products......Page 205
  A collection: Building archives......Page 207
  Conclusion......Page 208
  References......Page 210
  Introduction......Page 212
  Approach 1: Transnational governance......Page 213
  Approach 2: Materiality – temporality......Page 216
  Notes......Page 220
  References......Page 221
  Introduction......Page 223
  Amman, design and design education......Page 224
  Centre/Periphery and the Westernized university......Page 227
  Cultural identity and marginalization......Page 228
  Production, consumption and the designer......Page 229
  Design culture as a way of understanding place......Page 231
  What can Design Culture do?......Page 232
  Note......Page 233
  References......Page 234
Epilogue: Towards design culture as practice......Page 236
 References......Page 239
Index......Page 240