Design, History and Time

Anne Massey is Professor of Design and Culture at London College of Communication, UK. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including Pop Art and Design (2017) and Hollywood Beyond the Screen (2000).Zoë Hendon is Head of Collections at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, UK. She has published articles in the Journal of Decorative Arts and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Design History.

• List of figuresList of contributorsForewordBarry Curtis, Royal College of Art, UKIntroductionZoe Hendon and Anne Massey, independent, UKSection I: Millennia, Centuries1. Designing stone: temporal representation of a timeless materialSeher Erdogan Ford, Temple University, USA2. ‘The drama of the soul’: time, eternity and evolution in the designs of Phoebe Anna TraquairSally Anne Huxtable, National Museums Scotland, UK3. Time aboard the Ghan: Alice Springs to Adelaide, March 2016Anne Burke, Middlesex University, UKSection II: Centuries, Decades, Years4 As good as apple pie? Post-unification Germany and the reception of public art from the former German Democratic RepublicJessica Jenkins, Falmouth University, UK5. The story of a Portuguese cock and other knick-knacks: heritage, propaganda and design in a far-right dictatorshipCarlos Bártolo, Universidade Lusíada, Portugal6. An experiment with time: modern and classical influences in the planning of 'high and over'Michael Findlay, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand7. Making ‘atomic’ history: consuming historical narratives in the ‘unofficial’ digital archiveEmily Candela, Royal College of Art, UK8. A queer feeling and its future in/for design historyJohn Potvin, Concordia University, CanadaSection III: Days, Hours, Seconds9. Tube time: How the subterranean city got faster by designDavid Lawrence, Kingston University and London Transport Museum, UK10. Dreams of The Fun Palace and Plug-In City: architectural modularism and cybernetics in the 1960sClaire McAndrew, University College London, UK11. Sign of the times: slow design in the age of social accelerationNiels Peter Skou, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark12. Fast and slow: design and the experience of timeStephen Hayward, Central St Martins, UK13. Delivered in less than sixty seconds: temporal references in the design and discourse of digital reading devicesToke Riis Ebbesen, University of Southern Denmark, DenmarkSelect BibliographyIndex

Design, History and Time offers a challenge to design historians. It asks them to consider how assumptions about time as a measure of social value are ‘baked in’ to our thinking about design. It also offers ways to work through these assumptions and fixed representations, by putting a critical analysis of time at the forefront of design history.