Designing Worlds

List of Illustrations



Introduction: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization

Grace-Lees-Maffei and Kjetil Fallan



Chapter 1. Designs on/in Africa

Dipti Bhagat



Chapter 2. Does Southern African Design History Exist?

Deirdre Pretorius



Chapter 3. Designing The South African Nation: From Nature To Culture

Jacques Lange and Jeanne van Eeden



Chapter 4. Resisting Global Homogeneity but Craving Global Markets: Kiwiana and Contemporary Design Practice in New Zealand

Claudia Bell



Chapter 5. Creativity within a Geographical-National Framework: From Modern Japanese Design to Pevsner's Art Geography

Ariyuki Kondo



Chapter 6. Imagining the Indian Nation: The Design of Gandhi's Dandi March and Nehru's Republic Day Parade

Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan



Chapter 7. Troubled Geography: Imagining Lebanon in 1960s Tourist Promotion

Zeina Maasri



Chapter 8. Czech Glass or Bohemian Crystal? The Nationality of Design in the Czech Context

Marta Filipova



Chapter 9. The Myth of Danish Design and the Implicit Claims of Labels

Stina Teilmann-Lock



Chapter 10. Altering a Homogenized Heritage: Articulating Heterogeneous Material Cultures in Norway and Sweden

Kjetil Fallan and Christina Zetterlund



Chapter 11. A Special Relationship: The UK-US Transatlantic Domestic Dialogue

Grace Lees-Maffei



Chapter 12. Surveying the Borders: Authenticity in Mexican-American Food Packaging, Imagery and Architecture

Nicolas P. Maffei



Chapter 13. An Empire of One's Own: Individualism and Domestic Built Form in 21st Century Jamaica

Davinia Gregory



Chapter 14. The Quest for Modernity: A Global/National Approach to a History of Design in Latin America

Patricia Lara-Betancourt



Chapter 15. Of Coffee, Nature and Exclusion: Designing Brazilian National Identity at International Exhibitions 1867 & 1904

Livia Rezende



Index