Il design nella storia

Victor Margolin

Victor Margolin University of Illinois, Chicago

Keywords: Design, Design History, Design Studies, History

Abstract

In this important contribution, Margolin examines the role of design history in the broader context of social, economic and technical histories.
Through a historiographical and bibliographic analysis, he enquires and seeks to answer some of the questions for which design histories that are often too specialised in nature make up only a marginal position in the community of historians in spite of the pervasiveness of design in the social world.

Originally published in:
Margolin, V. (2009). Design in History. Design Issues, 25:2, p. 94-105,
©Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published by MIT Press Journals.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/desi.2009.25.2.94
Translated by © 2013 Maddalena Dalla Mura

Author Biography

Victor Margolin, University of Illinois, Chicago

Emeritus professor of design history at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Founder and member of the «Design Issue» executive committee. He has written and published on various design topics and lectured and lectured around the world. Among the volumes written, edited (independently or in collaboration) The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1936 (1998), Design Discourse (1989), Discovering Design (1995) and The Idea of Design (1996 ). The most recent are The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies (2002) and Culture is Everywhere: The Museum of Corn-temporary Art (2002). In 2015 he published the two volumes World History of Design.