Design Roots: Culturally Significant Designs, Products, and Practices
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- UOA32-1417
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- ISBN
- 9781350103412
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- 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 is a book which was edited by the research team consisting of group of design research colleagues from the Universities of Lancaster, Leeds and Manchester Metropolitan University. The project was funded over three years plus a six month extension by AHRC. The team members at Leeds were Cassidy and Twigger-Holroyd and the major part of their research was the planning and compilation of the taxonomy of strategies described in the final chapter of the book. Cassidy also contributed two other chapters and an editorial. Bloomsbury are recognised as excellent publishers of academic and research texts and the manuscript was peer reviewed at a number of stages. The title of the project funded by AHRC was entitled “Developing effective design strategies to support designs, products and practices that have a strong origin in local or national cultures” but was later given the title “Design Routes”. Thus Design Roots is mainly focused on where designs, products and processes have come from and Design Routes is about the journey(s) they have made and where they are going. The originality aspect of the work at Leeds was the idea of producing the taxonomy of revitalising strategies and, with a valuable contribution from the PI at MMU, the grouping of these strategies into clusters which were then produced in the format of a set of cards which were tested on design groups locally and internationally. They are also available to future designers through a website link. The Executive Director of the Crafts Council, UK has observed “Critical writing on craft, such as Design Roots, is crucial to ensure it continues to evolve and thrive”.
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- Non-English
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