ABSTRACT
Design and Heritage provides the first extended study of heritage from the point of view of design history. Exploring the material objects and spaces that contribute to our experience of heritage, the volume also examines the processes and practices that shape them.
Bringing together 18 case studies, written by authors from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Norway, India, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, the book questions how design functions to produce heritage. Including provocative case studies of objects that reinterpret visual symbols of cultural identity and buildings and monuments that evoke feelings of national pride and historical memory, as well as landscapes embedded with trauma, contributors consider how we can work to develop adequate shared conceptual models of heritage and apply them to design and its histories. Exploring the distinction between tangible and intangible heritages, the chapters consider what these categories mean for design history and heritage. Finally, the book questions whether it might be possible to promote a truly equitable understanding of heritage that illuminates the social, cultural and economic roles of design.
Design and Heritage demonstrates that design historical methods of inquiry contribute significantly to critical heritage studies. Academics, researchers and students engaged in the study of heritage, design history, material culture, folklore, art history, architectural history and social and cultural history will find much to interest them within the pages of the book.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|45 pages
Monuments and memorials
chapter 1|14 pages
Wellington Monument and the Uses of Heritage
chapter 3|14 pages
The India-Pakistan Border as Site for the Production of National Identity
part II|57 pages
Landscape, place and visitor experience design
chapter 4|14 pages
Indigenous Living [‘Heritage’] Designing Tenets
chapter 6|14 pages
The Design Heritage of the Wintergardens at the Auckland Domain
part III|44 pages
Craft and industrial design
chapter 9|13 pages
Royal Copenhagen vs. Porsgrund
part IV|43 pages
Textiles and dress
part V|44 pages
Graphic design, information design and typography
part VI|32 pages
Digitisation and online user experience design