The Routledge Companion to Design Studies

Penny Sparke, Fiona Fisher

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Routledge
21 June 2016

The Arts: General & Reference; History of Art & Design Styles; Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Humanities; Cultural studies

Series: Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions

Since the 1990s, in response to dramatic transformations in the worlds of technology and the economy, design - a once relatively definable discipline, complete with a set of sub-disciplines - has become unrecognizable. Consequently, design scholars have begun to address new issues, themes and sub-disciplines such as: sustainable design, design for well-being, empathic design, design activism, design anthropology, and many more.

The Routledge Companion to Design Studies charts this new expanded spectrum and embraces the wide range of scholarship relating to design - theoretical, practice-related and historical - that has emerged over the last four decades. Comprised of forty-three newly-commissioned essays, the Companion is organized into the following six sections:

Defining Design: Discipline, Process Defining Design: Objects, Spaces Designing Identities: Gender, Sexuality, Age, Nation Designing Society: Empathy, Responsibility, Consumption, the Everyday Design and Politics: Activism, Intervention, Regulation Designing the World: Globalization, Transnationalism, Translation

Contributors include both established and emerging scholars and the essays offer an international scope, covering work emanating from, and relating to, design in the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, North America, Asia, Australasia and Africa.

This comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of Design Studies.

Edited by: Penny Sparke, Fiona Fisher
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 1.474kg
ISBN: 9781138780507
ISBN 10: 1138780502
Series: Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 21 June 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Penny Sparke is a Professor of Design History and Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) at 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). Fiona Fisher is a Researcher in Design History at the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) at Kingston University, London. Her recent 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).