Design History and Culture Methods and Approaches 1st Edition by Javier Gimeno Martinez ISBN 0367706296 9781003147282

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ISBN 10: 0367706296 
ISBN 13: 9781003147282
Author: Javier Gimeno Martinez

Design History and Culture Methods and Approaches 1st Table of contents:

PART I: Methods

1. Close readings I: Structuralism

• Origins: Objects as indexes of culture

• Development: Jules David Prown’s “affective approach”

• Implementation: Formulating a hypothesis

• Challenges: Looking “through” artefacts or “at” artefacts?

2. Close readings II: Post-structuralism

• Origins: Technology and society

• Development: Madeleine Akrich’s “script analysis”

• Implementation: How to read scripts

• Challenges: Object-oriented ontology and the pluriverse

3. The life cycle of objects: Tracking design

• Origins: The commodity as a category

• Development: Cultural approaches to material culture

• Implementation: Design in diagrams

• Challenges: The prosumer and the object’s afterlife

4. The comparative method: Differences and similarities

• Origin: Tracking genealogies

• Development: Underlying structures and transnationalism

• Implementation: Ornament, archetypes and connected histories

• Challenges: The digital humanities and the implications of algorithms

5. Case study research: The specific and the general

• Origin: It is not about representativity but about relevance

• Development: Critical, unusual, common, revelatory and longitudinal

• Implementation: How to deal with fragmentary evidence

• Challenges: From iterative to deductive research

6. Designers’ monographs: Fluid authorship

• Origins: Genius-based monographs

• Development: Exploring the supraindividual

• Implementation: Is the heroic approach so heroic?

• Challenges: Design for social innovation

7. Oral history: Memories of the past and the present

• Origin: Documenting life

• Development: Compromise and memory

• Implementation: The relevance of the visual

• Challenges: Beyond orality

8. Ethnography: Groups and individuals

• Origins: Understanding culture

• Development: “What are the things in your home which are special to you?”

• Implementation: Design anthropology

• Challenges: The benefits of subjectivity

9. Discourse analysis: Constructing reality

• Origins: What is social constructionism?

• Development: Intertextuality

• Implementation: Exhibitions as discourse

• Challenges: Truth in times of Web 2.0 technology

PART II: Approaches

10. Industry: Economic and legal frameworks

• Origins: Economy and business history

• Development: Cultural political economy

• Implementation: The de-differentiation between the private and the public

• Challenges: Posthumanism and artificial intelligence

11. Geopolitics: National interactions

• Origins: A national character

• Development: Postcolonialism and cultural appropriation

• Implementation: The global and the indigenous

• Challenges: Decolonizing design scholarship

12. Society and culture: Manners, morals and customs

• Origins: History from below

• Development: Social histories of art and technology

• Implementation: Individuals, products and society

• Challenges: The social vs. the aesthetic?

13. Gender studies: Questioning heteronormativity

• Origins: Institutionalizing feminism

• Development: Femininities and masculinities

• Implementation: Gendered objects, women designers and queer stories

• Challenges: Just binary oppositions?

14. Style: Period, group and individual

• Origins: A product of idealism

• Development: “The mask is the face”

• Implementation: Style as resistance

• Challenges: Timelessness, revival and aesthetic sustainability

15. The typological approach: Categories and belonging

• Origins: Taxonomies

• Development: On anonymous history

• Implementation: From failure to new materialism

• Challenges: Types in an age of digitalization

16. Materials and techniques: Transforming nature

• Origins: Subversive crafts

• Development: The Anthropocene and the environmental humanities

• Implementation: Pottery, cotton and steel

• Challenges: Biodesign, designing with nature

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