Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow : : Design Histories between Africa and Europe /

Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow : : Design Histories between Africa and Europe / / ed. by Alexandra Weigand, Kerstin Pinther.

As a teenager, I spent my time wondering why in sci-fi movies, every landscape, every object I could see was Western or Asian based. I've finally understood that somewhere our legacy had been locked in the past, that we couldn't be "futuristic" in the eyes of our fellow Europeans...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Bonsiepe, Gui,
Clarke, Alison J.,
Greef, Erica de,
Hanussek, Christian,
Magaziner, Daniel,
Pinther, Kerstin,
Vogel, Susan Mullin,
Weigand, Alexandra,
HerausgeberIn:
Pinther, Kerstin,
Weigand, Alexandra,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Design ; 37
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow. Design Histories between Africa and Europe
  • Forms of Modernity
  • Transform(n)ation
  • Forms of Cooperation / Participation
  • Material Morphosis
  • Speculative Forms
  • Ladi Kwali, Michael Cardew and a Tangled Story of African Studio Pottery
  • Design, Development and its Legacies: A Perspective on 1970s Design Culture and its Anthropological Intents
  • Between Favela Chic and Autonomy. Design in Latin America
  • The Politics of Design in Postcolonial Kenya
  • On the Flows of Architectural Design: The Context and Making of an Exhibition
  • Jules Wokam's Aesthetics of Permeability
  • Tracing the Quiet Cultural Activism: Laduma Ngxokolo and Black Coffee
  • Cheick Diallo: Design between Politics and Poetics
  • Designers' and Artists' Biographies
  • Authors' Biographies

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