Dear Vanni, Many thanks for the invitation to contribute to this series of “letters.” As someone new to the field, I very much appreciate the opportunity to join this discussion with such an impressive group of scholars and teachers. Kjetil is absolutely correct that design historians should be responsible for deciding how designhistory is researched,…
Anno: 2013
Balcioglu: On design history
Dear Vanni Many thanks for initiating this interesting debate. I will use your five questions to formulate my observations and ideas. 1 Loss of importance of History of Design in Design Schools As you rightly indicated, the situation in Eastern schools is radically different. Take Turkey for instance, where design history is developing steadily and…
Lees-Maffei: On design history
Dear Vanni Pasca Thank you for your message and for kindly forward the fascinating messages from colleagues about the purpose and practice of design history. As Kjetil Fallan pointed out, some of my take on this has recently been published in an article I co-wrote with DJ Huppatz: Lees-Maffei, G. and D. J. Huppatz. ‘Why…
Dilnot: On design history
Dear all, Just to try to take further this very interesting discussion. The problem of the “loss” of the history of design in studio design programs is also in part a result of the breakdown of the modern design project and the idea of the autonomous design discipline. To put this in perspective, before the…
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Pasca: On design history, letters
Dear friends, in attachment you find some letters of Susan Yelavich, Victor Margolin, Kjetil Fallan, Anna Calvera and me. In November I met in New York Susan and we discussed about History of Design. After that encounter I wrote a letter to some friends. All their letters are here attached. Now I send that letters…