Routledge Companion to Design Studies

Penny Sparke is a Professor of Design History and Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London. Her publications include Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration (2005), The Modern Interior (2008) and An Introduction to Design and Culture, 1900 to the Present, 3rd edition (2012). She is the present Chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Design History. Fiona Fisher is a Researcher in Design History at the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC), Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, where she is Curator of the University's Dorich House Museum. Her publications include Designing the British Post-War Home: Kenneth Wood, 1948–1968 (2015) and, co-edited with Christopher Breward and Ghislaine Wood, British Design: Tradition and Modernity after 1948 (2015). She is the present Managing Editor of the Journal of Design History.

• INTRODUCTIONPenny SparkePART ONEDefining Design: Discipline, Process Penelope DeanFree For All Jilly TraganouWall Street Bounded and Unbinding: The Spatial as a Multifocal Lens in Design Studies Alison PrendivilleConnectivity Through Service Design Louise ValentineA Curious Journey into an Unknown World Christopher Boyko, Yi Chang Lee, Rachel Cooper,Design Decision Making Lois WeinthalDrawing the Dotted Line Janice HellandThe Craft and Design of Dressmaking, 1880 -1907PART TWODefining Design: Objects, Spaces Robert FriedelArtifice, Materials and the Choices of Design Paul AtkinsonWriting the Design History of Computers Victoria KelleyKeeping it on the Surface: Design, Surfaces and Taste Trevor KeebleTable Stories: History, Meaning and Narrative in Contemporary Homemaking Marilyn CohenWall Street(s) Viviana NarotzkyBeyond Perfection. Object and process in twenty-first century design and material culture PART THREEDesigning Identities: Gender, Sexuality, Age, Nation Christopher BrewardModern Dressing: the suit as practice and symbol Penny SparkeArranging the Aspidistras: nature, culture and the design of the feminine sphere in the nineteenth century John PotvinFrom Bright Young Thing to Vile Body to Posthumous Reliquary: Stephen Tennant, queer excess and the decadent interior Amy F. OgataDesigning Childhood Noel WaiteFutures Fairs: Industrial exhibitions in New Zealand 1865-1925 Paul HazellA Difficult Road: Designing a post-colonial car for Africa Jeremy AynsleyThe Cultural Representation of Graphic Design in East and West Germany, 1949 to 1970 Kjetil FallanA Match Made in Utopia: the uneasy love affair of art and industry in Scandinavia PART FOURDesigning Society: Empathy, Responsibility, Consumption, the Everyday Barbara PennerFrom Ergonomics to Empathy: Herman Miller and MetaForm Deana McDonaghHow Products Satisfy Needs Beyond the Functional: empathy supporting consumer-product relationships Joseph McBrinnRefashioning disability: the case of Painted Fabrics Ltd, 1915-1959 Rama GheerawoSocially Inclusive Design: a people-centred perspective Lorraine Gamman and Adam ThorpeWhat is "Socially Responsive Design and Innovation"? Ming CheungUse Experience Design in Digital Service Information Prasad BoradkarDesign + Anthropology: An Emergent Discipline Ben HighmoreDesign, Daily Life and Matters of Taste PART FIVEDesign and Politics: Activism, Intervention, Regulation Tony FryConfiguring Design as Politics Now Alison J. ClarkeDesign for the Real World: Victor Papanek and the Emergence of Humane Design Eeva BerglundImpossible Maybe, Perhaps Quite Likely: Activist design in Helsinki’s urban wastelands Stuart WalkerDesign for Meaningful Innovation Rebecca ReubensTowards Holistic Sustainability Design: The Rhizome Approach Fiona FisherRegulating Design: Spaces and Boundaries of the Late Nineteenth-Century Public HousePART SIXDesigning the World: Globalization, Transnationalism, TranslationVictor MargolinA World History of Design Grace Lees-Maffei"Why Then the World’s my Oyster": Consumption and Globalization, 1851 to now Meltem O GürelDesigning and Consuming the Modern in Turkey Joana Ozorio de Almeida MerozThree Dutchnesses of Dutch Design: The Construction of a National Practice at the Intersection of National and International Dynamics Tanishka KachruThe Staging of Indian National Identity Through Exhibitions, 1850-1947 Elise HodsonExhibiting Independent India: Textiles and Ornamental Arts at the Museum of Modern Art in New York Christine GuthDesign before Design in Japan Yuko KikuchiThe Cold War Design Business of John D. Rockefeller 3rd

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