Design Roots : culturally significant designs, products and practices
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 231717335
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781474241809
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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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
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Design Roots, for which Walker was instigator, proposal writer, lead editor, and author/co-author of six chapters and editorial introductions, resulted from a collaboration between five academics in three universities and involved a total of 33 contributors to its 25 chapters. This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of how culturally significant artefacts are created and their role and place in a world of mass production, disposability and environmental and community breakdown. It includes traditional and leading-edge digital practices and provides a truly international perspective, with contributions from six continents. The Director of the Crafts Council wrote that is a ‘crucial’ addition to the literature. In The Design Journal, Swan noted: ‘I would recommend this edited volume to thinking practitioners and researchers looking for inspiration – it is full of ideas worth pursuing. … It tackles both nature and nurture. It develops the ideas of ‘local’ but pragmatically accepts that globalization and urbanization challenges relevancy. It warns against the ‘trinketization’ of crafts that ‘can lead to a loss of meaning and diversity, and a consequent decline in the social, historical, and/or aesthetic values associated with designs, products, and practices’ (34), but does not set up adversarial relationships. Design Roots suggests that those within the community are the arbiters of authenticity; they are the ones that decide whether it carries social, historical, and/or aesthetic values – often seeing evolution and change as an integral element of tradition.’
The publication of this edited volume led to participation in a summer school in Madeira, a conference keynote presentation in Puebla Mexico, successful, funded research partnerships with Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (BIFT) and Ningxia University; a keynote talk at BIFT; contribution to the International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions, and a keynote talk at its accompanying conference in Waterford, Ireland.
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- Non-English
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