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Zusatztext The eighteen essays that make up this volume explore the plethora of ideas that arise from a consideration of the relationship between the concepts of agency and design. The ambitions of the editors and the contributors to (re)consider the traditional narratives and historiography of design have been fully realised. Informationen zum Autor Dr John Potvin is Professor of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal, where he teaches on the intersections of art, design and fashion. The author of over 40 essays, his work has been published in such leading journals as The Journal of Design History , Journal of Interior Design , Senses and Society , Genders , Home Cultures , Visual Culture in Britain and Fashion Theory . He is the author of Material and Visual Cultures Beyond Male Bonding (2008), Giorgio Armani: Empire of the Senses (2013) and, more recently, Bachelors of a Different Sort: Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain (2014), winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize. In addition, he is also editor of The Places and Spaces of Fashion (2009) and Oriental Interiors: Design, Identity , Space (2015) . His most recent book, Deco Dandy: Designing Masculinity in 1920s Paris (2020) explores the fashion, painting, performance and design cultures of the much-neglected interwar dandy. He also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Design History . Marie-Ève Marchand is Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art History at Concordia University, Canada. Klappentext Design and Agency brings together leading international design scholars and practitioners to address the concept of agency in relation to objects, organisations and people. The authors set out to expand the scope of design history and practice, avoiding the heroic narratives of a typical modernist approach. They consider both how the agents of design construct and express their identities and subjectivities through practice, while also investigating the distinctive contribution of design in the construction of individual identity and subjectivity. Individual chapters explore notions of agency in a range of design disciplines and historical periods, including the agency of women in effecting changes to the design of offices and working practices; the role of Jeffrey Lindsay and Buckminster Fuller in developing the design of a geodesic dome; Le Corbusier's 'Casa Curutchet'; a re-consideration of the gendered historiography of the 'Jugendstil' movement, and Bruce Mau's design exhibitions. Taken together, the essays in Design and Agency provide a much-needed response to the traditional texts which dominate design history. With a broad chronological span from 1900 to the present, and an equally broad understanding of the term 'design', it expands how we view the discipline, and shows how design itself can be an agent for social, cultural and economic change.The first book to focus on agency's role in the design process, an area of fast-growing interest in design academia. Zusammenfassung Design and Agency brings together leading international design scholars and practitioners to address the concept of agency in relation to objects, organisations and people. The authors set out to expand the scope of design history and practice, avoiding the heroic narratives of a typical modernist approach. They consider both how the agents of design construct and express their identities and subjectivities through practice, while also investigating the distinctive contribution of design in the construction of individual identity and subjectivity. Individual chapters explore notions of agency in a range of design disciplines and historical periods, including the agency of women in effecting changes to the design of offices and working practices; the role of Je...