Design as Craft. Performativity and Interpellation in Design History
Författare
Redaktör
- Ulla Johansson
Summary, in English
This paper presents part of a research project dealing with the performative aspects of craft practice. In the project, gender and genre in craft-, art- and design magazine are being examined from a critical perspective, focusing on the discursive limits at play. The project explores the performative aspects of practical skills by studying how notions of gender are used to communicate craft - or hand made aspects of the design process. In this paper I will discuss how the discursive limits of design have been conceptualized in Swedish design history and how representations of art-, craft - and design-making in magazines relate to the historical narrative. The Do-It-Yourself and the “critical making” aspects of contemporary design have opened my eyes to these questions. I believe that a design history with a critical approach to norms and habits in desig n practice answers to crucial questions such as: What works as incentive to do design? What makes a person think that she or he can be a designer? Or make a difference? In the long run perhaps the practitioners in their making the objects of their trade can also challenge the limitations of both genre and genre.
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
10th European Academy of Design Conference
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Förlag
Gothenburg University
Ämne
- Art History
Nyckelord
- handicraft
- historiography
- gender
- critical making
Conference name
10th European Academy of Design Conference: Crafting the Future, 2013
Conference date
2013-04-16 - 2013-04-19
Conference place
Göteborgs universitet, Göteborg, Sweden
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-91-979541-5-0