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Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow : Design Histories between Africa and Europe / ed. by Alexandra Weigand, Kerstin Pinther.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Design ; 37Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2018]Copyright date: 2018Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783839442012
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 740 23
LOC classification:
  • NC225 .F569 2018eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Content -- Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow. Design Histories between Africa and Europe -- Forms of Modernity -- Transform(n)ation -- Forms of Cooperation / Participation -- Material Morphosis -- Speculative Forms -- Ladi Kwali, Michael Cardew and a Tangled Story of African Studio Pottery -- Design, Development and its Legacies: A Perspective on 1970s Design Culture and its Anthropological Intents -- Between Favela Chic and Autonomy. Design in Latin America -- The Politics of Design in Postcolonial Kenya -- On the Flows of Architectural Design: The Context and Making of an Exhibition -- Jules Wokam’s Aesthetics of Permeability -- Tracing the Quiet Cultural Activism: Laduma Ngxokolo and Black Coffee -- Cheick Diallo: Design between Politics and Poetics -- Designers’ and Artists’ Biographies -- Authors’ Biographies
Summary: As a teenager, I spent my time wondering why in sci-fi movies, every landscape, every object I could see was Western or Asian based. I've finally understood that somewhere our legacy had been locked in the past, that we couldn't be "futuristic" in the eyes of our fellow Europeans. We have to look behind our shoulders, get back to our traditions, seize the best of them and shape a future with it. This without forgetting we are part of the world, totally, unquestionably. The future is for me not only a matter of dialogue with the past, but and beyond everything a dialogue with the rest of the planet.Kossi AguessyHow is it possible to adequately capture histories of design in Africa, a continent with fifty-four countries? How can one avoid producing just another essentialising master narrative of "African Design"? How can one make sense of the many entangled yet often asymmetric and sometimes ambivalent histories of form-finding processes between Africa and Europe? In keeping with the premises of a global art and design history approach, the book offers a change of perspective: focusing on the mobility of people, objects and ideas - on flows between Africa and Europe as well as on a South-South axis - allows for multiple yet necessarily fragmented design histories to be identified and recognised. The contributors trace multi-faceted design case studies from a historical perspective, with attention to the present as well as towards possible futures.
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Frontmatter -- Content -- Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow. Design Histories between Africa and Europe -- Forms of Modernity -- Transform(n)ation -- Forms of Cooperation / Participation -- Material Morphosis -- Speculative Forms -- Ladi Kwali, Michael Cardew and a Tangled Story of African Studio Pottery -- Design, Development and its Legacies: A Perspective on 1970s Design Culture and its Anthropological Intents -- Between Favela Chic and Autonomy. Design in Latin America -- The Politics of Design in Postcolonial Kenya -- On the Flows of Architectural Design: The Context and Making of an Exhibition -- Jules Wokam’s Aesthetics of Permeability -- Tracing the Quiet Cultural Activism: Laduma Ngxokolo and Black Coffee -- Cheick Diallo: Design between Politics and Poetics -- Designers’ and Artists’ Biographies -- Authors’ Biographies

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As a teenager, I spent my time wondering why in sci-fi movies, every landscape, every object I could see was Western or Asian based. I've finally understood that somewhere our legacy had been locked in the past, that we couldn't be "futuristic" in the eyes of our fellow Europeans. We have to look behind our shoulders, get back to our traditions, seize the best of them and shape a future with it. This without forgetting we are part of the world, totally, unquestionably. The future is for me not only a matter of dialogue with the past, but and beyond everything a dialogue with the rest of the planet.Kossi AguessyHow is it possible to adequately capture histories of design in Africa, a continent with fifty-four countries? How can one avoid producing just another essentialising master narrative of "African Design"? How can one make sense of the many entangled yet often asymmetric and sometimes ambivalent histories of form-finding processes between Africa and Europe? In keeping with the premises of a global art and design history approach, the book offers a change of perspective: focusing on the mobility of people, objects and ideas - on flows between Africa and Europe as well as on a South-South axis - allows for multiple yet necessarily fragmented design histories to be identified and recognised. The contributors trace multi-faceted design case studies from a historical perspective, with attention to the present as well as towards possible futures.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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