Design: Critical and Primary Sources brings together 75 essential texts on design from the mid 19... more Design: Critical and Primary Sources brings together 75 essential texts on design from the mid 19th century to the present day, covering key thinkers, movements and issues for design. The four volumes are: 1) Design Reform, Modernism and Modernization 2) Professional Practice and Design Theories 3) Social Interactions 4) Development, Globalization and Sustainability Each volume features an editorial introduction and articles are grouped into thematic sections within each volume.
In interior design, the definition and popular perception of the interior has long been concerned... more In interior design, the definition and popular perception of the interior has long been concerned with bounded spaces, and with the relationship between private and public realms. However, two issues have challenged traditional boundaries between interior and exterior, and private and public: first, the emergence of new technological practices, and second, a broader understanding of diverse cultures. Popular perceptions of public and private space are currently being revised, and the interior is increasingly unbound in various ways, as many of the contributors to this volume (and the colloquium which preceded it) show. Both technological and cultural practices challenge and disrupt the common-sense idea of an interior space as a contained enclosure with clearly defined boundaries. Instead, the blurriness and ambiguity between public and private, inside and outside, and interiority and exteriority are challenging understandings of the interior.
This book provides additional perspectives on the shifting understanding of the interior and its recent transformations through case studies of both real and “unreal” places. These include writings about the interiority of rooms, buildings, streets and cities with diverse social, cultural and political contexts, such as the transformation of Soviet-style living spaces in Hanoi and Bishkek; the appropriation of everyday spaces in Tokyo; the uses of fengshui in corporate office towers in Shanghai and Hong Kong; the exploration of urban boundaries in Beirut; and the relationship between making domestic spaces and urban planning practices in Guatemalan communities in Florida. This volume also features chapters on virtual spaces, including one that examines human interaction with spaces of virtual reality in the Vitthala Temple in India, and another that analyses the representation and development of modern interiors through popular tapestries from the 1920s and 1930s.
Design historians generally avoid extended self-reflection or discussion of how they conduct rese... more Design historians generally avoid extended self-reflection or discussion of how they conduct research. Typically, they use historical research methods, yet design historians have also used methods borrowed from art history, cultural and literary studies, anthropology, sociology or other social sciences. This Virtual Special Issue, comprising articles drawn from past issues of the Journal of Design History, addresses the state of design history’s methodology. While few authors in the Journal have focused specifically on the topic of methodology, their implicit adoption of an eclectic variety of research methods over the past thirty years is revealing. This Introduction seeks to contextualize a collection of twelve articles within a brief overview of methodologies in history, art history and design history. The articles are then linked to scholarship beyond the Journal of Design History, and the final section presents additional methodological possibilities for design historians.
For at least a decade, design historians have been arguing that a global perspective on the disci... more For at least a decade, design historians have been arguing that a global perspective on the discipline is essential. However, despite some initial efforts, the project of a global design history remains in its infancy. In response to the growing interest in globalization, this article considers the potential possibilities and problems in globalizing design history, albeit from a limited, Anglophone perspective. It begins in the first half by reviewing recent debates in historiography over world and global histories, so that we might more confidently position global approaches to design history. The second half of the article assembles initial attempts to globalize design history as well as themes and methods for further research, plotting potential themes and methods for globalizing design history, drawing upon existing scholarship and knowledge. Following historian Jerry H. Bentley, I am proposing design historians both 'globalize history and historicize globalization', in order to ensure the ongoing relevance of the discipline and engage with contemporary developments in other disciplines.
Australian design and its history, popularly perceived from both within and without as marginal, ... more Australian design and its history, popularly perceived from both within and without as marginal, are little known beyond Australia. The following virtual special issue of Journal of Design History comprises a compilation of nine articles from the journal focused on Australian design, as well as a consideration of alternative frameworks and approaches for rethinking design history in an Australian context. This introduction begins with a brief overview of developments in Australian and global historiography in order to situate Australian design history within broader historical research, particularly problematizing the issue of national histories. Following this, a review of scholarship on Australian design over the past twenty–five years will help situate the prominent areas of inquiry and methods employed in the articles on Australian design featured in this virtual issue of the Journal of Design History. However, rather than conceive Australian design history as singular and separate, a final section comprising related scholarship—derived from art history, social history, history of technology, labour and manufacturing history, migrant history and histories of material culture—is intended to identify main threads that could constitute what I have termed Australian design history’s ‘expanded field’. Finally, a brief conclusion suggests future possibilities and themes.
Huppatz, DJ 2014, ‘Reframing Australian Design History’, Journal of Design History, introduction to virtual special edition, published online January 2014.
This article asks: what is the significance of design history within higher education? It reviews... more This article asks: what is the significance of design history within higher education? It reviews the practice and purpose of design history, in the education of historically aware and critically engaged designers, as an emerging independent discipline, and in terms of what the subject has to offer allied fields such as history, sociology, cultural studies, history of technology, area studies and anthropology. It considers the development and current state of design history as it is taught in the UK and non-Anglophone Europe (including France, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, Turkey and Greece), in the US, Australia and East Asia. The argument that follows is grounded in recent design historical scholarship, combined with the views of design historians working in the above mentioned countries, in order to provide both a contemporary perspective on current practice and suggestions about possible futures.
This article asks: what is the significance of design history within higher education? It reviews... more This article asks: what is the significance of design history within higher education? It reviews the practice and purpose of design history, in the education of historically aware and critically engaged designers, as an emerging independent discipline, and in terms of what the subject has to offer allied fields such as history, sociology, cultural studies, history of technology, area studies and anthropology. It considers the development and current state of design history as it is taught in the UK and non-Anglophone Europe (including France, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, Turkey and Greece), in the US, Australia and East Asia. The argument that follows is grounded in recent design historical scholarship, combined with the views of design historians working in the above mentioned countries, in order to provide both a contemporary perspective on current practice and suggestions about possible futures.
Huppatz, DJ and Lees-Maffei, G 2013, ‘Why Design History?’, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 12:2, 1-21.
Industrial designer Russel Wright’s final gesamtkunstwerk, Manitoga, has received scant attention... more Industrial designer Russel Wright’s final gesamtkunstwerk, Manitoga, has received scant attention from landscape theorists or historians. Constructed during the 1950s, Manitoga comprises Wright’s house, studio, and a 75-acre woodland garden in the Hudson River Valley near Garrison, New York. The project was the culmination of a design practice that extended from Wright’s initial work as a theater and industrial designer, to encompass a complete lifestyle and unique proto-ecological vision. In addition to Wright’s holistic approach to design, encompassing product, interior, architectural, and landscape design, Manitoga’s idiosyncratic yet provocative blend of picturesque and Japanese garden traditions dramatizes the fundamental and ongoing relationship between culture and nature, and make it a site worth revisiting from a landscape design perspective.
Huppatz, DJ 2013, ‘Blending and Contrasting the Artificial and the Natural: Russel Wright’s Man... more Huppatz, DJ 2013, ‘Blending and Contrasting the Artificial and the Natural: Russel Wright’s Manitoga’, Environmental History, 18: 1, 191-200.
Design: Critical and Primary Sources brings together 75 essential texts on design from the mid 19... more Design: Critical and Primary Sources brings together 75 essential texts on design from the mid 19th century to the present day, covering key thinkers, movements and issues for design. The four volumes are: 1) Design Reform, Modernism and Modernization 2) Professional Practice and Design Theories 3) Social Interactions 4) Development, Globalization and Sustainability Each volume features an editorial introduction and articles are grouped into thematic sections within each volume.
In interior design, the definition and popular perception of the interior has long been concerned... more In interior design, the definition and popular perception of the interior has long been concerned with bounded spaces, and with the relationship between private and public realms. However, two issues have challenged traditional boundaries between interior and exterior, and private and public: first, the emergence of new technological practices, and second, a broader understanding of diverse cultures. Popular perceptions of public and private space are currently being revised, and the interior is increasingly unbound in various ways, as many of the contributors to this volume (and the colloquium which preceded it) show. Both technological and cultural practices challenge and disrupt the common-sense idea of an interior space as a contained enclosure with clearly defined boundaries. Instead, the blurriness and ambiguity between public and private, inside and outside, and interiority and exteriority are challenging understandings of the interior.
This book provides additional perspectives on the shifting understanding of the interior and its recent transformations through case studies of both real and “unreal” places. These include writings about the interiority of rooms, buildings, streets and cities with diverse social, cultural and political contexts, such as the transformation of Soviet-style living spaces in Hanoi and Bishkek; the appropriation of everyday spaces in Tokyo; the uses of fengshui in corporate office towers in Shanghai and Hong Kong; the exploration of urban boundaries in Beirut; and the relationship between making domestic spaces and urban planning practices in Guatemalan communities in Florida. This volume also features chapters on virtual spaces, including one that examines human interaction with spaces of virtual reality in the Vitthala Temple in India, and another that analyses the representation and development of modern interiors through popular tapestries from the 1920s and 1930s.
Design historians generally avoid extended self-reflection or discussion of how they conduct rese... more Design historians generally avoid extended self-reflection or discussion of how they conduct research. Typically, they use historical research methods, yet design historians have also used methods borrowed from art history, cultural and literary studies, anthropology, sociology or other social sciences. This Virtual Special Issue, comprising articles drawn from past issues of the Journal of Design History, addresses the state of design history’s methodology. While few authors in the Journal have focused specifically on the topic of methodology, their implicit adoption of an eclectic variety of research methods over the past thirty years is revealing. This Introduction seeks to contextualize a collection of twelve articles within a brief overview of methodologies in history, art history and design history. The articles are then linked to scholarship beyond the Journal of Design History, and the final section presents additional methodological possibilities for design historians.
For at least a decade, design historians have been arguing that a global perspective on the disci... more For at least a decade, design historians have been arguing that a global perspective on the discipline is essential. However, despite some initial efforts, the project of a global design history remains in its infancy. In response to the growing interest in globalization, this article considers the potential possibilities and problems in globalizing design history, albeit from a limited, Anglophone perspective. It begins in the first half by reviewing recent debates in historiography over world and global histories, so that we might more confidently position global approaches to design history. The second half of the article assembles initial attempts to globalize design history as well as themes and methods for further research, plotting potential themes and methods for globalizing design history, drawing upon existing scholarship and knowledge. Following historian Jerry H. Bentley, I am proposing design historians both 'globalize history and historicize globalization', in order to ensure the ongoing relevance of the discipline and engage with contemporary developments in other disciplines.
Australian design and its history, popularly perceived from both within and without as marginal, ... more Australian design and its history, popularly perceived from both within and without as marginal, are little known beyond Australia. The following virtual special issue of Journal of Design History comprises a compilation of nine articles from the journal focused on Australian design, as well as a consideration of alternative frameworks and approaches for rethinking design history in an Australian context. This introduction begins with a brief overview of developments in Australian and global historiography in order to situate Australian design history within broader historical research, particularly problematizing the issue of national histories. Following this, a review of scholarship on Australian design over the past twenty–five years will help situate the prominent areas of inquiry and methods employed in the articles on Australian design featured in this virtual issue of the Journal of Design History. However, rather than conceive Australian design history as singular and separate, a final section comprising related scholarship—derived from art history, social history, history of technology, labour and manufacturing history, migrant history and histories of material culture—is intended to identify main threads that could constitute what I have termed Australian design history’s ‘expanded field’. Finally, a brief conclusion suggests future possibilities and themes.
Huppatz, DJ 2014, ‘Reframing Australian Design History’, Journal of Design History, introduction to virtual special edition, published online January 2014.
This article asks: what is the significance of design history within higher education? It reviews... more This article asks: what is the significance of design history within higher education? It reviews the practice and purpose of design history, in the education of historically aware and critically engaged designers, as an emerging independent discipline, and in terms of what the subject has to offer allied fields such as history, sociology, cultural studies, history of technology, area studies and anthropology. It considers the development and current state of design history as it is taught in the UK and non-Anglophone Europe (including France, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, Turkey and Greece), in the US, Australia and East Asia. The argument that follows is grounded in recent design historical scholarship, combined with the views of design historians working in the above mentioned countries, in order to provide both a contemporary perspective on current practice and suggestions about possible futures.
This article asks: what is the significance of design history within higher education? It reviews... more This article asks: what is the significance of design history within higher education? It reviews the practice and purpose of design history, in the education of historically aware and critically engaged designers, as an emerging independent discipline, and in terms of what the subject has to offer allied fields such as history, sociology, cultural studies, history of technology, area studies and anthropology. It considers the development and current state of design history as it is taught in the UK and non-Anglophone Europe (including France, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, Turkey and Greece), in the US, Australia and East Asia. The argument that follows is grounded in recent design historical scholarship, combined with the views of design historians working in the above mentioned countries, in order to provide both a contemporary perspective on current practice and suggestions about possible futures.
Huppatz, DJ and Lees-Maffei, G 2013, ‘Why Design History?’, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 12:2, 1-21.
Industrial designer Russel Wright’s final gesamtkunstwerk, Manitoga, has received scant attention... more Industrial designer Russel Wright’s final gesamtkunstwerk, Manitoga, has received scant attention from landscape theorists or historians. Constructed during the 1950s, Manitoga comprises Wright’s house, studio, and a 75-acre woodland garden in the Hudson River Valley near Garrison, New York. The project was the culmination of a design practice that extended from Wright’s initial work as a theater and industrial designer, to encompass a complete lifestyle and unique proto-ecological vision. In addition to Wright’s holistic approach to design, encompassing product, interior, architectural, and landscape design, Manitoga’s idiosyncratic yet provocative blend of picturesque and Japanese garden traditions dramatizes the fundamental and ongoing relationship between culture and nature, and make it a site worth revisiting from a landscape design perspective.
Huppatz, DJ 2013, ‘Blending and Contrasting the Artificial and the Natural: Russel Wright’s Man... more Huppatz, DJ 2013, ‘Blending and Contrasting the Artificial and the Natural: Russel Wright’s Manitoga’, Environmental History, 18: 1, 191-200.
With contemporary designers increasingly focusing on environmental considerations, design histori... more With contemporary designers increasingly focusing on environmental considerations, design historians have begun the search for precedents that might reconstruct design history in sustainable terms. An essential step in this reconstruction will be further consideration of design as an extended ecological practice or process, rather than the previously narrow focus on the production, consumption and mediation of discrete, finished artefacts. This article examines design as an ecological practice through a close analysis of American designer Russel Wright’s home, studio, and woodland garden, Manitoga. Integrating architecture, interior, and landscape design into an environmental gesamtkunstwerk, Manitoga is a largely forgotten proto-ecological design project of the 1950s. However, Manitoga is more than simply a historical site, and is reconsidered here as a project that combines Wright’s ‘creative living’ ideals and design processes, one that remains provocative over fifty years later.
Huppatz, DJ 2012, ‘Creative Living, Ecological Design and Russel Wright’s Manitoga’, Journal of Design History, 25: 4, 363-378.
Roland Barthes’s 1957 collection of essays, Mythologies, was
one of the first critical reflection... more Roland Barthes’s 1957 collection of essays, Mythologies, was one of the first critical reflections on postwar popular culture. Barthes’s concise analyses of contemporary French culture and accompanying theoretical essay had a profound influence on a variety of fields, including design studies. For design critics and practitioners alike, Mythologies helped shape an understanding of how designed artifacts operate in a mass consumer culture: less as functional objects and more as metaphoric vehicles of collective desire. Barthes’s critical interventions are particularly pertinent in the early twenty-first century as a provocative inter-disciplinary model for contemporary design studies. This article begins with a discussion of Barthes’s intellectual foundations for Mythologies and a consideration of the work in its original context. It then adapts Barthes’ techniques in order to examine the myth of global digital determinism embodied in the recent One Laptop per Child project.
Huppatz, DJ 2011, ‘Reconsidering: Roland Barthes, Mythologies’, Design and Culture, 3: 1, 85-100.
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Books by DJ Huppatz
1) Design Reform, Modernism and Modernization
2) Professional Practice and Design Theories
3) Social Interactions
4) Development, Globalization and Sustainability
Each volume features an editorial introduction and articles are grouped into thematic sections within each volume.
This book provides additional perspectives on the shifting understanding of the interior and its recent transformations through case studies of both real and “unreal” places. These include writings about the interiority of rooms, buildings, streets and cities with diverse social, cultural and political contexts, such as the transformation of Soviet-style living spaces in Hanoi and Bishkek; the appropriation of everyday spaces in Tokyo; the uses of fengshui in corporate office towers in Shanghai and Hong Kong; the exploration of urban boundaries in Beirut; and the relationship between making domestic spaces and urban planning practices in Guatemalan communities in Florida. This volume also features chapters on virtual spaces, including one that examines human interaction with spaces of virtual reality in the Vitthala Temple in India, and another that analyses the representation and development of modern interiors through popular tapestries from the 1920s and 1930s.
Papers by DJ Huppatz
Huppatz, DJ 2014, ‘Reframing Australian Design History’, Journal of Design History, introduction to virtual special edition, published online January 2014.
East Asia. The argument that follows is grounded in recent design historical scholarship, combined with the views of design historians working in the above mentioned countries, in order to provide both a contemporary perspective on current practice and suggestions about possible futures.
Huppatz, DJ and Lees-Maffei, G 2013, ‘Why Design History?’, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 12:2, 1-21.
Link: http://ahh.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/12/14/1474022212467601.full.pdf
Huppatz, DJ 2013, ‘Revisiting Russel Wright’s Manitoga’, Landscape Journal, 32:1, 21-36.
Link: http://lj.uwpress.org/content/32/1/19.abstract?sid=d13cc8cc-2220-4ae7-8752-55e9fbd679b8
Link: http://envhis.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/1/191.extract
1) Design Reform, Modernism and Modernization
2) Professional Practice and Design Theories
3) Social Interactions
4) Development, Globalization and Sustainability
Each volume features an editorial introduction and articles are grouped into thematic sections within each volume.
This book provides additional perspectives on the shifting understanding of the interior and its recent transformations through case studies of both real and “unreal” places. These include writings about the interiority of rooms, buildings, streets and cities with diverse social, cultural and political contexts, such as the transformation of Soviet-style living spaces in Hanoi and Bishkek; the appropriation of everyday spaces in Tokyo; the uses of fengshui in corporate office towers in Shanghai and Hong Kong; the exploration of urban boundaries in Beirut; and the relationship between making domestic spaces and urban planning practices in Guatemalan communities in Florida. This volume also features chapters on virtual spaces, including one that examines human interaction with spaces of virtual reality in the Vitthala Temple in India, and another that analyses the representation and development of modern interiors through popular tapestries from the 1920s and 1930s.
Huppatz, DJ 2014, ‘Reframing Australian Design History’, Journal of Design History, introduction to virtual special edition, published online January 2014.
East Asia. The argument that follows is grounded in recent design historical scholarship, combined with the views of design historians working in the above mentioned countries, in order to provide both a contemporary perspective on current practice and suggestions about possible futures.
Huppatz, DJ and Lees-Maffei, G 2013, ‘Why Design History?’, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 12:2, 1-21.
Link: http://ahh.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/12/14/1474022212467601.full.pdf
Huppatz, DJ 2013, ‘Revisiting Russel Wright’s Manitoga’, Landscape Journal, 32:1, 21-36.
Link: http://lj.uwpress.org/content/32/1/19.abstract?sid=d13cc8cc-2220-4ae7-8752-55e9fbd679b8
Link: http://envhis.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/1/191.extract
Huppatz, DJ 2012, ‘Creative Living, Ecological Design and Russel Wright’s Manitoga’, Journal of Design History, 25: 4, 363-378.
Link: http://jdh.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/4/363.abstract
one of the first critical reflections on postwar popular culture. Barthes’s concise analyses of contemporary French culture
and accompanying theoretical essay had a profound influence on a variety of fields, including design studies. For design critics
and practitioners alike, Mythologies helped shape an understanding of how designed artifacts operate in a mass consumer culture: less as functional objects and more as metaphoric vehicles of collective desire. Barthes’s critical interventions are particularly pertinent in the early twenty-first
century as a provocative inter-disciplinary model for contemporary design studies. This article begins with a discussion of Barthes’s intellectual foundations for
Mythologies and a consideration of the work in its original context. It then adapts Barthes’ techniques in order
to examine the myth of global digital determinism
embodied in the recent One Laptop per Child project.
Huppatz, DJ 2011, ‘Reconsidering: Roland Barthes, Mythologies’, Design and Culture, 3: 1, 85-100.
Link: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2752/175470810X12863771378833