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Covering the 1960s and 1970s, this volume explores new ways of investigating, comparing and interpreting the different domains of design culture across the Nordic countries.
List of contents
Introduction: Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960-1980
Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund and Anders V. Munch
PART I: Transforming Discourse
1. The Way North: Merging Ideology and Methodology on the Road to Ecological Design
Kjetil Fallan
2. The Total, Global, Living 'Environment': A Key Concept in the Danish Design Debate around 1970
Anders V. Munch and Hans-Christian Jensen
3. Students of Architecture as Environmental Activists:
Two Sister Exhibitions about the Environmental Crisis in Sweden and Norway, 1968-1969Beata Labuhn
4. Exhibition as a Critical Tool: A Conversation with Gunilla Lundahl on Exhibitions, Making Change and Participation
Christina Zetterlund
5. Nordic Revival: Crafting Rural Development in Finnish and Norwegian Design Discourse
Malin Graesse and Kaisu Savola
6. Sami Mobilisation: Institutions and Exhibitions in the 1970s
Anna Westman Kuhmunen
Part II: Transforming Institutions
7. Exhibiting New Cultures of Design: Representing the Cultural and Social Meanings of Design in Three Nordic Exhibitions
Peder Valle, Sabina Maria Rossau and Leena Svinhufvud
8. On a Stormy Sea: Design Education and Politics in Finland
Pekka Korvenmaa
9. Voices of Rebellion: Interviews with Former Students at the Copenhagen School of Arts and Crafts 1969
Vibeke Riisberg, Anders V. Munch and Patricia Fie Nielsen
10. Harmful or Useless? Victor Papanek and the Danish Design Students' Protests
Anders V. Munch, Alison J. Clarke, Vibeke Riisberg and Lene Kiærbye Pedersen
PART III: Transforming Practices
11. Designing Together: On Histories of Scandinavian User-Centered Design
Maria Göransdotter
12. Between Craft and Commerce: Norwegian and Danish Textile Design in a Time of Change
Tone Rasch and Trine Brun Petersen
13. Sewing and Sisterhood: Elverhøj, the First Collective Craft Store in Copenhagen
Tau Lenskjold
14. Knowledge to the People: The Professionalisation of Graphic Design in the Norwegian Book Publishing Industry
Thomas T. Nordby
About the author
Kjetil Fallan is Professor of Design History at the University of Oslo.
Christina Zetterlund is Associate Professor of Design at Linneaus University, Växjö and curator for the project (Re-)learning the Archive at The Design Archive in Pukeberg.
Anders V. Munch is Professor of Design Culture at the University of Southern Denmark.
Summary
Covering the 1960s and 1970s, this volume explores new ways of investigating, comparing and interpreting the different domains of design culture across the Nordic countries.
