Design, History and Time

List of figures
List of contributors

Foreword
Barry Curtis, Royal College of Art, UK

Introduction
Zoe Hendon and Anne Massey, independent, UK

Section I: Millennia, Centuries

1. Designing stone: temporal representation of a timeless material
Seher Erdogan Ford, Temple University, USA

2. 'The drama of the soul': time, eternity and evolution in the designs of Phoebe Anna Traquair
Sally Anne Huxtable, National Museums Scotland, UK

3. Time aboard the Ghan: Alice Springs to Adelaide, March 2016
Anne Burke, Middlesex University, UK

Section II: Centuries, Decades, Years

4 As good as apple pie? Post-unification Germany and the reception of public art from the former German Democratic Republic
Jessica Jenkins, Falmouth University, UK

5. The story of a Portuguese cock and other knick-knacks: heritage, propaganda and design in a far-right dictatorship
Carlos Bártolo, Universidade Lusíada, Portugal

6. An experiment with time: modern and classical influences in the planning of 'high and over'
Michael Findlay, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand

7. Making 'atomic' history: consuming historical narratives in the 'unofficial' digital archive
Emily Candela, Royal College of Art, UK

8. A queer feeling and its future in/for design history
John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada

Section III: Days, Hours, Seconds

9. Tube time: How the subterranean city got faster by design
David Lawrence, Kingston University and London Transport Museum, UK

10. Dreams of The Fun Palace and Plug-In City: architectural modularism and cybernetics in the 1960s
Claire McAndrew, University College London, UK

11. Sign of the times: slow design in the age of social acceleration
Niels Peter Skou, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

12. Fast and slow: design and the experience of time
Stephen Hayward, Central St Martins, UK

13. Delivered in less than sixty seconds: temporal references in the design and discourse of digital reading devices
Toke Riis Ebbesen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

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