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

Published by transcript Verlag 2018

Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow

Design Histories between Africa and Europe

Edited by: Kerstin Pinther and Alexandra Weigand

Volume 37 in the series Design

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839442012

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About this book

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. We have to look behind our shoulders, get back to our traditions, seize the best of them and shape a future with it. This without forgetting we are part of the world, totally, unquestionably. The future is for me not only a matter of dialogue with the past, but and beyond everything a dialogue with the rest of the planet.

Kossi Aguessy

How is it possible to adequately capture histories of design in Africa, a continent with fifty-four countries? How can one avoid producing just another essentialising master narrative of "African Design"? How can one make sense of the many entangled yet often asymmetric and sometimes ambivalent histories of form-finding processes between Africa and Europe? In keeping with the premises of a global art and design history approach, the book offers a change of perspective: focusing on the mobility of people, objects and ideas - on flows between Africa and Europe as well as on a South-South axis - allows for multiple yet necessarily fragmented design histories to be identified and recognised. The contributors trace multi-faceted design case studies from a historical perspective, with attention to the present as well as towards possible futures.

Author / Editor information

Kerstin Pinther is professor for African Art History at the art history department of Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany. Her research focuses on contemporary art, architecture, urbanism and design in Africa and its diaspora. Her most recent publication looked at "New Spaces for Negotiating Art (and) Histories in Africa". As a curator, she organized the exhibition "Afropolis. City, Media, Art" (2010-2012).
Alexandra Weigand is a designer and art historian, who works interdisciplinarily as a curator, lecturer and researcher. Her exhibition projects include "Hit the Future_Design beyond the Borders" and "Hit the Future_Metropolitan Design" for Munich's design weeks in 2014 und 2015. She is currently a senior researcher at the art history department of Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany, with a focus on design and urbanism in Africa.

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Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow. Design Histories between Africa and Europe Kerstin Pinther and Alexandra Weigand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	4
Forms of Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Transform(n)ation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Forms of Cooperation / Participation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Material Morphosis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Speculative Forms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Ladi Kwali, Michael Cardew and a Tangled Story of African Studio Pottery Susan Mullin Vogel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Design, Development and its Legacies: A Perspective on 1970s Design Culture and its Anthropological Intents Alison J. Clarke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Between Favela Chic and Autonomy. Design in Latin America Gui Bonsiepe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
The Politics of Design in Postcolonial Kenya Daniel Magaziner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
On the Flows of Architectural Design: The Context and Making of an Exhibition Kerstin Pinther and Alexandra Weigand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Jules Wokam’s Aesthetics of Permeability Christian Hanussek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Tracing the Quiet Cultural Activism: Laduma Ngxokolo and Black Coffee Erica de Greef Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Cheick Diallo: Design between Politics and Poetics Kerstin Pinther and Alexandra Weigand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Designers’ and Artists’ Biographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 208
Keywords: Design History; Art History; African Studies; Architecture; Exhibition; Europe; European Art; African Art; Art History of the 20th Century

eBook

Published: May 27, 2018
ISBN: 9783839442012