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Designing for Socialist Need

Industrial Design Practice in the German Democratic Republic

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Paperback, 264 blz. | Engels
Taylor & Francis | 1e druk, 2019
ISBN13: 9780367434571
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How does industrial design operate outside of capitalist consumer culture? Designing for Socialist Need assembles a detailed picture of industrial design practice in the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR). Drawing on much previously unexplored material from a wide variety of sources, it not only maps out some of the ideological, institutional and economic contexts within which GDR design functioned, it also critically reconstructs the designers’ aims and perspectives in order to argue that they shared a profoundly socially responsible approach to design. By focusing on their ideas and approaches, this volume attends to the previously unacknowledged intellectual and practical richness of GDR design culture and demonstrates that it can provide pertinent insights not only for scholars of GDR history or German design, but also for contemporary design practitioners, theorists and educators with an interest in sustainability in design.

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ISBN13:9780367434571
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:264
Druk:1

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