I’ve enjoyed this conversation very much–thanks, Vanni, for including me. It wasn’t until this year, thanks to the phd-design list, that I realized that design history was in a period of retrenchment in Britain. I was surprised, because I have the strong impression from attending both NASAD* and CAA** that design history is being offered…
Anno: 2012
Calvera: On design history
Dear all How a nice conversation, and how lucky I am tohave been invited to participate! By now, there are many questions in the fore and so, I don’t know if it is best to answer through only one mail or rather use some more. Concerning the practical uses of Design History lectures, I enjoyed…
Fallan: On design history
Caro Vanni; dear Susan; dear colleagues, The place and role of design history in (design) education seems to be of concern to many these days. The European Academy of Design (EAD) Conference 2013, which will take place in Gothenburg in April, contains a track called “Design history as a tool for better design” (see the…
Yelavich: On design history
Dear Vanni and colleagues, I am delighted to be included in this discussion re: history. And I agree with Vanni when he writes: “Presently I think that the problem is the domination of an absolutized technical thinking, both under the engeneering and the managerial points of view. I think it’s a general problem in present…
Margolin: On design history
Dear colleagues; Thanks to Vanni, I believe, for starting this discussion. I agree with Kjetil that historians need to control the narrative of design history. It is not simply a service activity but on in its own right like art history, film history, and so forth. There is a design history research culture with its…
Pasca: Lettere sulla storia del design / On design history
Dear friends, some days ago I could luckily meet at Parsons in New York Susan Yelavich. We discussed about Design, History of design and so on. Afterwards she wrote to me a letter and I quote here one phrase: “… about teaching history. I feel there is a need for both chronological and modal/thematic approaches.…
Pasca: Lettere sulla storia del design / On design history
Nel mese di novembre ho incontrato alla Parsons-The New School for Design di New York la professoressa Susan Yelavich. Abbiamo discusso di design e in particolare di Storia del design, del suo ruolo, dei metodi di insegnamento nelle scuole di design e così via. In seguito le ho inviato una lettera nella quale riassumevo quelli…