Design Roots: Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices - Softcover

Stuart Walker; Tom Cassidy; Martyn Evans; Amy Twigger Holroyd; Jeyon Jung

 
9781350103412: Design Roots: Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1350103411 ISBN 13: 9781350103412
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018

Synopsis

Design Roots provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products and practices which are rooted to particular communities through making tradition and a sense of place. Many rich traditional practices associated with community, tacit knowledge and culture are being rapidly lost due to globalization and urbanization. Yet they have much to offer for the future in terms of sustainability, identity, wellbeing and new opportunities in design.

This book considers the creative roots, the place-based ecologies, and deep understandings of cultural significance, not only in terms of history and tradition but also in terms of locale, social interactions, innovation, and change for the sustainment of culturally significant material productions. Importantly, these are not locked in time by sentimentality and nostalgia but are evolving, innovative, and adaptive to new technologies and changing circumstances.

Contributing authors explore the historical roots of culturally significant designs, products and practices, emerging directions, amateur endeavours, enterprise models, business opportunities and the changing role and contribution of design in the creation of material cultures of significance, meaning and value.

An international perspective is provided through case studies and research from North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australasia, with examples including Aran jumper production in Northern Ireland, weaving in Thailand, Iranian housing design, Brazilian street design and digital crafting in the United Kingdom.

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About the Author

Emilie Kutash is Lecturer at Salem State University and Endicott College, USA.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1350103411
ISBN 13 
9781350103412
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
400
Editor
Stuart Walker, Tom Cassidy, Martyn Evans, Amy Twigger Holroyd, Jeyon Jung

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