Design Roots: Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 262014
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781474241830
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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C - Design
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Design Roots provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products and practices, which are rooted to particular communities through making tradition and a sense of place. Many rich traditional practices associated with these communities, their tacit knowledge and culture, are being rapidly lost due to globalisation and urbanisation. Yet they have much to offer for the future in terms of sustainability, identity, wellbeing and new opportunities in design. The book resulted from a significant 3 ½ year AHRC funded project, which the author led as Principal Investigator (AH/K008021/1; £607,878). His specific contribution was to conceive, co-commission, co-edit and author a number of editorial introductions as well as leading the final capstone chapter, which presented the research findings from the Design Routes project. Specifically, this chapter explored how design provides strategies for the revitalisation of culturally significant designs, products, and practices. More broadly the book interrogates the creative roots, the place-based ecologies, and deep understandings of cultural significance, not only in terms of history and tradition but also in terms of locale, social interactions, innovation, and change for the sustainment of culturally significant material productions. Importantly, it identified that these are not locked in time by sentimentality and nostalgia but are evolving, innovative, and adaptive to new technologies and changing circumstances. Across 25 chapters, contributing authors explore the historical roots of culturally significant designs, products and practices, emerging directions, amateur endeavours, enterprise models, business opportunities and the changing role and contribution of design in the creation of material cultures of significance, meaning and value. An international perspective is provided through case studies and research from North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australasia, with examples including Aran jumper production in Northern Ireland, weaving in Thailand, Iranian housing design, Brazilian street design and digital crafting in the United Kingdom.
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- Non-English
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