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  • Ecological by Design

    A History from Scandinavia

    by Kjetil Fallan ...
    How ecological design emerged in Scandinavia during the 1960s and 1970s, building on both Scandinavia’s design culture and its environmental movement.Scandinavia is famous for its design culture, and for its pioneering efforts toward a sustainable future. In Ecological by Design, Kjetil Fallan shows how these two forces came together in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Scandinavian designers ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Culture of Nature in the History of Design

    Edited by Kjetil Fallan ...
    The Culture of Nature in the History of Design confronts the dilemma caused by design’s pertinent yet precarious position in environmental discourse through interdisciplinary conversations about the design of nature and the nature of design. Demonstrating that the deep entanglements of design and nature have a deeper and broader history than contemporary discourse on sustainable design and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Made in Italy

    Rethinking a Century of Italian Design

    Edited by Grace Lees-Maffei, Kjetil Fallan ...
    Goods made or designed in Italy enjoy a profile which far outstrips the country's modest manufacturing output. Italy's glorious design heritage and reputation for style and innovation has 'added value' to products made in Italy. Since 1945, Italian design has commanded an increasing amount of attention from design journalists, critics and consumers. But is Italian design a victim of its own ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Designing Modern Norway

    A History of Design Discourse

    by Kjetil Fallan ...
    Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation state. Rather than a conventional national design history survey that focuses on designers and objects, this is an in-depth study of the ideologies, organizations, strategies and politics that combined might be said to have "designed" the modern nation ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Scandinavian Design

    Alternative Histories

    Edited by Kjetil Fallan ...
    Scandinavian design is still seen as democratic, functional and simple, its products exemplifying the same characteristics now as they have done since the 1950s. But both the essence and the history of Scandinavian design are much more complex than this. Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories presents a radically new assessment, a corrective to the persistent mythologies and reductive accounts ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960–1980

    Revolt and Resilience

    Edited by Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund, Anders V. Munch ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Design History
    Covering the 1960s and 1970s, this volume explores new ways of investigating, comparing and interpreting the different domains of design culture across the Nordic countries.Challenging the traditional narrative, this volume argues that the roots of the most prominent features of Nordic design’s contemporary significance are not to be found amongst the objects for the home collectively branded as ... Read more

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  • Designing Worlds

    National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization

    Edited by Grace Lees-Maffei, Kjetil Fallan ...
    Series Book 24 - Making Sense of History
    From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western, industrialized nations. This diverse but rigorously curated collection recalibrates our understanding of design history, reassessing regional ... Read more

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    Designing infrastructure as landscape

    Edited by Van Der Hoeven Frank, Steffen Nijhuis, Jauslin Daniel ...
    Flowscapes explores concepts, methods and techniques for design-related research on landscape infrastructures. Their main objective is to engage environmental and societal issues by means of integrative and design oriented approaches. Through focusing on interdisciplinary design-related research of landscape infrastructures they provide important clues for the development of spatial armatures that ... Read more

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  • Use Matters

    An Alternative History of Architecture

    Edited by Kenny Cupers ...
    From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people’s everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays assembled in this collection show, interest in the elusive realm of the user was an essential part of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Global Architect

    Firms, Fame and Urban Form

    by Donald McNeill ...
    Series series Cultural Spaces
    The Global Architect explores the increasing significance of globalization processes on urban change, architectural practice and the built environment. In what is primarily a critical sociological overview of the current global architectural industry, Donald McNeill covers the "star system" of international architects who combine celebrity and hypermobility, the top firms, whose offices are ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Indigenous Sport and Nation-Building

    Interrogating Sámi Sport and Beyond

    by Eivind Å. Skille ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book investigates the social, political, and cultural dimensions of Indigenous sport and nation-building. Focusing on the Indigenous Sámi of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, it addresses how colonization variously impacts organizational arrangements and everyday sporting life in a modern world.Through detailed case data from the Norwegian side of Sápmi (the land of the Sámi), this book ... Read more

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  • Fashion

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rebecca Arnold ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience. It spans high art and popular culture, and plays a significant role in material and visual culture. This book introduces fashion's myriad influences and manifestations. Fashion is explored as a creative force, a business, and a means of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD