Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging (Key Issues in Cultural Heritage)

Design and Heritage provides the first extended study of heritage from the point of view of design history. Exploring the material objects and spaces that contribute to our experience of heritage, the volume also examines the processes and practices that shape them. Bringing together 18 case studies, written by authors from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Norway, India, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, the book questions how design functions to produce heritage. Including provocative case studies of objects that reinterpret visual symbols of cultural identity and buildings and monuments that evoke feelings of national pride and historical memory, as well as landscapes embedded with trauma, contributors consider how we can work to develop adequate shared conceptual models of heritage and apply them to design and its histories. Exploring the distinction between tangible and intangible heritages, the chapters consider what these categories mean for design history and heritage. Finally, the book questions whether it might be possible to promote a truly equitable understanding of heritage that illuminates the social, cultural and economic roles of design. Design and Heritage demonstrates that design historical methods of inquiry contribute significantly to critical heritage studies. Academics, researchers and students engaged in the study of heritage, design history, material culture, folklore, art history, architectural history and social and cultural history will find much to interest them within the pages of the book. Cover Page Half Title Page Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Page List of figures Page List of contributors Page Acknowledgements Page Series co-editors’ general foreword Page Design (history) and heritage (studies): an introduction Part I Monuments and memorials 1 Wellington Monument and the uses of heritage: changing purpose, new meanings, multiple identities 2 Marginalised heritage and invisible history: the Silvertown War Memorial 3 The India-Pakistan border as site for the production of national identity: heritage by design Part II Landscape, place and visitor experience design 4 Indigenous living [‘heritage’] designing tenets: Kulin ways of singing, designing, nurturing and nourishing terrains of identity 5 Hopi House and the design of heritage at Grand Canyon National Park 6 The design heritage of the Wintergardens at the Auckland Domain: spectacular enchantment 7 Toward a typology of designed heritage in Southeast Ohio: mound, marker, mine Part III Craft and industrial design 8 Dürer, Goethe, and the poetics of Richard Riemerschmid’s modern wooden furniture 9 Royal Copenhagen vs. Porsgrund: negotiating ceramic design heritage in the age of copyright 10 Lifestyle branding, nostalgia and Hong Kong’s contested heritage Part IV Textiles and dress 11 Reclaiming heritage narratives: reweaving the story of a royal wedding dress 12 A Canadian maple leaf quilt: design history and natural heritage 13 Design, politics, and Croatian folk heritage: gingerbread and lace Part V Graphic design, information design and typography 14 South African heritage postcards: the same old story? 15 Modernist graphics, new typography, and the design of identity in the first Czechoslovak Republic 16 Typography and lettering as design heritage in Brazil Part VI Digitisation and online user experience design 17 Recontextualizing Burmese colonial photographs as contemporary fashion accessories at Yangoods: ‘to revitalize Myanmar’s heritage’ 18 Designing absence at the Anne Frank House museum, Amsterdam, and the Secret Annex online: exhibition design, virtual reality, and historic preservation Index Design and Heritage provides the first extended study of heritage from the point of view of design history. Exploring the material objects and spaces that contribute to our experience of heritage, the volume also examines the processesnd practices that shape them. Bringing together eighteen case studies, written by authors from the US, the UK, Canada, Brazil, Norway, India, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, the book questions how design functions to produce heritage. Including provocative case studies of objects that reinterpret visual symbols of cultural identity; buildings and monuments that evoke feelings of national pride and historical memory; as well as landscapes embedded with trauma, contributors consider how we can work to develop adequate shared conceptual models of heritage and apply them to design and its histories. Exploring the distinction between tangible and intangible heritages, the chapters consider what these categories mean for design history and heritage. Finally, the book questions whether it might be possible to promote a truly equitable understanding of heritage that illuminates the social, cultural and economic roles of design. Design and Heritage demonstrates that design historical methods of inquiry contribute significantly to critical heritage studies. Academics, researchers and students engaged in the study of heritage, design history, material culture, folklore, art history, architectural history, and social and cultural history will find much to interest them within the pages of the book