Design Dispersed: Forms of Migration and Flight

✍ Scribed by Burcu Dogramaci (editor); Kerstin Pinther (editor)

• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 274
• Series: Design; 44
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume traces the complex and heterogeneous connections between migration and design in the 20th and 21st centuries. Questions tackled address the aesthetic effects that result from the networking, overlapping, and mixing of forms as well as the political and social dimensions of design: How are experiences of displacement inscribed in the things designers create? Can design contribute to a critical debate in migration and flight? Is it able to provide 'material' to rethink complex historical and cultural relationships?
The chapters clarify the challenges and possibilities of thinking together migration, design and flight, critically historicize and discuss design concepts for displaced people, and bring mobile actors in design into focus.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Design Dispersed. Forms of Migration and Flight. An Introduction
DESIGN DISPERSED. FORMS OF MIGRATION
Between the Ship and the House: Traveling Light with the Bauhaus
Forms of Migration, Migration of Forms: Sigmund Freud in Exile and the Dispersion of Things
The Tracksuit on the Street. On the Construction of “Migrant Chic“
On Global Flight and Migration in Fashion and Fashion Theory: Cultural Performances and Political Frameworks on the European Catwalks (F/W 2016/17)
Mobile Worlds
DESIGN DISPERSED. DESIGN FOR AND ABOUT MIGRATION
Humanitarian, Social and Participative – A New Design Culture in Times of Migration and Flight?
Flight Design and Migratory City Planning. The Architecture of the Refugee Pavilions of Western Sahara and of Germany at the Venice Biennial of Architecture 2016
Design Objects as Tools for Reflecting on Migration and Flight: Works by Studio Formafantasma and Superflex
Heimat ‘to Go’. Migration in the Fashion Design of Hussein Chalayan
DESIGN DISPERSED. DESIGNERS AND ARTISTS AS CULTURAL AGENTS AND BROKERS
‘Ethno Fashion’ in Modernist Mexico. Transfer Processes between Anachronistic Recourse, Individual Identity, and Transnational Conceptions of Modernism
Erwin Broner’s Exile in Ibiza. The Transformation from Vernacular to Avant-garde in Architecture
A Return to the Motherland: Afro-Brazilians’ Architecture and Societal Aims in Colonial West Africa
Local, Global, Émigré, Immigrant. A Discursive Inquiry on the Power of Adjectives in Architecture History Writing
Author Biographies
Image Credits