Design Roots
Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices
Published on 31. December 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-350-10341-2 (ISBN)
Description
Design Roots provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products and practices which are rooted to particular communities through making tradition and a sense of place. Many rich traditional practices associated with community, tacit knowledge and culture are being rapidly lost due to globalization and urbanization. Yet they have much to offer for the future in terms of sustainability, identity, wellbeing and new opportunities in design.
This book considers the creative roots, the place-based ecologies, and deep understandings of cultural significance, not only in terms of history and tradition but also in terms of locale, social interactions, innovation, and change for the sustainment of culturally significant material productions. Importantly, these are not locked in time by sentimentality and nostalgia but are evolving, innovative, and adaptive to new technologies and changing circumstances.
Contributing authors explore the historical roots of culturally significant designs, products and practices, emerging directions, amateur endeavours, enterprise models, business opportunities and the changing role and contribution of design in the creation of material cultures of significance, meaning and value.
An international perspective is provided through case studies and research from North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australasia, with examples including Aran jumper production in Northern Ireland, weaving in Thailand, Iranian housing design, Brazilian street design and digital crafting in the United Kingdom.
This book considers the creative roots, the place-based ecologies, and deep understandings of cultural significance, not only in terms of history and tradition but also in terms of locale, social interactions, innovation, and change for the sustainment of culturally significant material productions. Importantly, these are not locked in time by sentimentality and nostalgia but are evolving, innovative, and adaptive to new technologies and changing circumstances.
Contributing authors explore the historical roots of culturally significant designs, products and practices, emerging directions, amateur endeavours, enterprise models, business opportunities and the changing role and contribution of design in the creation of material cultures of significance, meaning and value.
An international perspective is provided through case studies and research from North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australasia, with examples including Aran jumper production in Northern Ireland, weaving in Thailand, Iranian housing design, Brazilian street design and digital crafting in the United Kingdom.
Reviews / Votes
Craft has deep roots and heritage but these material skills and ways of working are just as relevant today as they were centuries ago. Critical writing on craft, such as Design Roots, is crucial to ensure it continues to evolve and thrive. * Rosy Greenlees OBE, Executive Director of the Crafts Council, UK * A balanced, insightful, integrated agenda... a collaboration of thoughtful practitioners that offers fruitful research... The insightful editors and creative contributors managed to avoid most difficulties seen in edited volumes: the range of quality, the consistency of the essays, and the enlarged sum of the book impressed me... These pages do not offer sentimentality and nostalgia but promote the evolving, innovative, and adaptive nature of traditional, culturally significant designs, products and practices... [I] enjoyed the satisfaction of an admirable accomplishment... I would recommend this edited volume to thinking practitioners and researchers looking for inspiration - it is full of ideas worth pursuing. * K. Scott Swan writing for the Design Journal, Routledge *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
40 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 169 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-10341-2 (9781350103412)
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Stuart Walker | Martyn Evans | Tom Cassidy
Design Roots
Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices
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1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
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Stuart Walker | Martyn Evans | Tom Cassidy
Design Roots
Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices
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02/2018
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€32.99
Available for download
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Stuart Walker | Martyn Evans | Tom Cassidy
Design Roots
Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices
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Persons
Stuart Walker is Professor of Design for Sustainability at Lancaster University, UK.
Martyn Evans is Professor of Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Tom Cassidy is Chair of Design at the University of Leeds, UK.
Jeyon Jung is Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK.
Amy Twigger Holroyd is Associate Professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Martyn Evans is Professor of Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Tom Cassidy is Chair of Design at the University of Leeds, UK.
Jeyon Jung is Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK.
Amy Twigger Holroyd is Associate Professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Content
Editorial Introduction, Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK)
Part I
Introduction: Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices, Martyn Evans (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
1. Creative Ecologies: Contextualising Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices, Jeyon Jung and Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK)
2. Forging New Futures: Cultural Significance, Revitalisation and Authenticity, Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
3. Culturally Significant Artefacts and Their Relationship to Tradition and Sustainability, Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK)
4. Making and its Cultural Ecological Foundations, Patrick Dillon (University of Exeter, UK)
Part II
Introduction: Authenticity and Tradition in Material Culture, Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
5. The Aran Jumper, Siun Carden (University of the Highlands and Islands, UK)
6. Chok Weaving and Textile Enterprises from Northern Thailand, Disaya Chudasri (Lancaster University, UK)
7. Oltu-Stone Prayer Beads: A Journey into the Art of Carving Tasbih, Hazal Guemues Ciftci (Lancaster University, UK)
8. The Mian Sara: Traditional Iranian Homes and Sustainability, Poone Yazdanpanah and Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK)
9. IKEA: Mass-produced National Design Identity, Sara S. Kristoffersson (Konstfack University College, Sweden)
Part III
Introduction: Revitalisation by Design, Tom Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK)
10. Culture as a Resource for a Sustainable Future in Indigenous Communities: Strengthening Atikamekw Identity and Economics through Design, Anne Marchand, Karine Awashish, Christian Coocoo, Solen Roth, Renata Marques Leitao, Cedric Sportes and Caoimhe Isha Beaule (University of Montreal, Canada)
11. Transforming Tradition in Indonesia: A Method for Maintaining Tradition in a Craft and Design Context, Adhi Nugraha (Aalto University, Finland)
12. New Translations of South Korean Patterns, Meong Jin Shin (University of Leeds, UK)
13. Revitalisation by Design, Sebastian Cox (Sebastian Cox Ltd, UK)
14. New Caribbean Design: Revitalising Place-based Products, Patty Johnson (Patty Johnson Design, Canada)
Part IV
Introduction: Enterprise, Policy and Education for Positive Development, Jeyon Jung (Lancaster University, UK)
15. Sustaining Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices: Lessons from the Hohokam, Jacques Giard (Arizona State University, USA)
16. Accidents, Intentions, Movements and Makers: Artisan Economy in Portland, Oregon, USA,Steven Marotta, Austin Cummins and Charles Heying (Portland State University, USA)
17. The Role of Higher Education in Sustaining Culturally Significant Crafts in Estonia, Sirpa Kokko (University of Helsinki, Finland)
18. The Challenge of Intellectual Property Rights for Culturally Significant Patterns, Products and Processes, Tom Cassidy and Tracy Diane Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK)
19. The Case of the City Different: The Intersection of the Museum, the Artist and the Marketplace, Marsha C. Bol (Carnegie Museum of Natural History, USA)
Part V
Introduction: Design Futures, Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK) and Martyn Evans (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
20. Research Approaches for Culturally Significant Design, Tom Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK)
21. Digital Transformations, Amateur Making and the Revitalisation of Traditional Textile Crafts, Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
22. Design for Social Innovators, Anna Meroni and Daniela Selloni (Politechnico di Milano, Italy)
23. Integrated Scales of Design and Production for Sustainability with a Focus on Graduate Design Work in Lighting, Cagla Dogan (Middle Eastern Technical University, Turkey)
24. Designing Authentic Brands: How Designerly Approaches can Craft Authentic Brand Identity, Emma Murphy (Glasgow School of Art, UK)
25. Strategies for Revitalisation of Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices, Martyn Evans (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK), Stuart Walker and Jeyon Jung (Lancaster University, UK) and Tom Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK)
Index
Part I
Introduction: Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices, Martyn Evans (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
1. Creative Ecologies: Contextualising Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices, Jeyon Jung and Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK)
2. Forging New Futures: Cultural Significance, Revitalisation and Authenticity, Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
3. Culturally Significant Artefacts and Their Relationship to Tradition and Sustainability, Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK)
4. Making and its Cultural Ecological Foundations, Patrick Dillon (University of Exeter, UK)
Part II
Introduction: Authenticity and Tradition in Material Culture, Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
5. The Aran Jumper, Siun Carden (University of the Highlands and Islands, UK)
6. Chok Weaving and Textile Enterprises from Northern Thailand, Disaya Chudasri (Lancaster University, UK)
7. Oltu-Stone Prayer Beads: A Journey into the Art of Carving Tasbih, Hazal Guemues Ciftci (Lancaster University, UK)
8. The Mian Sara: Traditional Iranian Homes and Sustainability, Poone Yazdanpanah and Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK)
9. IKEA: Mass-produced National Design Identity, Sara S. Kristoffersson (Konstfack University College, Sweden)
Part III
Introduction: Revitalisation by Design, Tom Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK)
10. Culture as a Resource for a Sustainable Future in Indigenous Communities: Strengthening Atikamekw Identity and Economics through Design, Anne Marchand, Karine Awashish, Christian Coocoo, Solen Roth, Renata Marques Leitao, Cedric Sportes and Caoimhe Isha Beaule (University of Montreal, Canada)
11. Transforming Tradition in Indonesia: A Method for Maintaining Tradition in a Craft and Design Context, Adhi Nugraha (Aalto University, Finland)
12. New Translations of South Korean Patterns, Meong Jin Shin (University of Leeds, UK)
13. Revitalisation by Design, Sebastian Cox (Sebastian Cox Ltd, UK)
14. New Caribbean Design: Revitalising Place-based Products, Patty Johnson (Patty Johnson Design, Canada)
Part IV
Introduction: Enterprise, Policy and Education for Positive Development, Jeyon Jung (Lancaster University, UK)
15. Sustaining Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices: Lessons from the Hohokam, Jacques Giard (Arizona State University, USA)
16. Accidents, Intentions, Movements and Makers: Artisan Economy in Portland, Oregon, USA,Steven Marotta, Austin Cummins and Charles Heying (Portland State University, USA)
17. The Role of Higher Education in Sustaining Culturally Significant Crafts in Estonia, Sirpa Kokko (University of Helsinki, Finland)
18. The Challenge of Intellectual Property Rights for Culturally Significant Patterns, Products and Processes, Tom Cassidy and Tracy Diane Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK)
19. The Case of the City Different: The Intersection of the Museum, the Artist and the Marketplace, Marsha C. Bol (Carnegie Museum of Natural History, USA)
Part V
Introduction: Design Futures, Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK) and Martyn Evans (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
20. Research Approaches for Culturally Significant Design, Tom Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK)
21. Digital Transformations, Amateur Making and the Revitalisation of Traditional Textile Crafts, Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
22. Design for Social Innovators, Anna Meroni and Daniela Selloni (Politechnico di Milano, Italy)
23. Integrated Scales of Design and Production for Sustainability with a Focus on Graduate Design Work in Lighting, Cagla Dogan (Middle Eastern Technical University, Turkey)
24. Designing Authentic Brands: How Designerly Approaches can Craft Authentic Brand Identity, Emma Murphy (Glasgow School of Art, UK)
25. Strategies for Revitalisation of Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices, Martyn Evans (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK), Stuart Walker and Jeyon Jung (Lancaster University, UK) and Tom Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK)
Index