Design and revolution conference CFP

[Tony Anemone]

CFP: Design/History/Revolution

Deadline: December 7, 2011

Conference: April 27 & 28, 2012, The New School, NYC

 

Keynote speaker: Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture & Design, The Museum of Modern Art

Whether by providing agitprop for revolutionary movements, an aesthetics of empire, or a language for numerous avant-gardes, design has changed the world. But how? Why? And under what conditions?  We propose a consideration of design as an historical agent, a contested category, and a mode of historical analysis.

 

This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore these questions and to open up new possibilities for understanding the relationships among design, history and revolution.

 

Casting a wide net, we define our terms broadly. We seek 20-minute papers that examine the roles of design in generating, shaping, remembering or challenging moments of social, political, economic, aesthetic, intellectual, technological, religious, and other upheaval. We consider a range of historical periods (ancient, pre-modern, early modern, modern, post- and post-post-modern) and geographical locations (“West,” “East,” “North,” South,” and contact zones between these constructed categories).  We examine not only designed objects (e.g., industrial design, decorative arts, graphic design, fashion) but also spaces (e.g., architecture, interiors, landscapes, urban settings) and systems (e.g., communications, services, governments).  And we welcome a diversity of disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approaches.

 

This conference brings together scholars from the humanities, sciences, and social sciences with designers, artists, and other creators. We hope not only to present multiple methodological approaches but also to foster conversations across traditional spatial, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries.


We list some possible subject areas below, and encourage you to propose others:
Design and political / cultural / economic revolution                        Design and the everyday

Design and technological revolution                                                Design and government

Design and social movements                                                            Design and surveillance

Design and historicity                                                                        Designed landscapes

Design and empire                                                                        Design and the sacred

Design and the avant-garde                                                             Design and memory

Design and the print revolution                                                Design and philosophy/philosophies

Design and literature                                                                                    of design

Design and consumerism                                                            Design and the city

Design and science                                                                        Design and the environment
Design and cybernetics                                                            Design and the domestic sphere
Design and education
 
Please submit a 250-word abstract (maximum) and 1-page CV to: designhistoryrevolution at gmail.com



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Anthony Anemone
Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literary Studies
The New School for Public Engagement
Eugene Lang College

anemonea at newschool.edu








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