Design, Displacement, Migration

Spatial and Material Histories

Sarah A. Lichtman, Jilly Traganou, Sarah A. Lichtman, Jilly Traganou

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032046945
• eBook ISBN: 9781000962840
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Design General

Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices—spanning design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation; poetry; activism; and social sciences––to interrogate the intersections of design and displacement.

The contributors foreground objects, spaces, visual, and material practices and consider design's role in the empire, the state, and various colonizing regimes in controlling the mass movement of people, things, and ideas across borders, as well as in social acts that resist forced mobility and immobility, or enact new possibilities. By consciously surfacing echoes, rhymes, and dissonances among varied histories, this volume highlights local specificity while also accounting for the vectors of displacement and design across borders and histories. Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories shows displacement to be a lens for understanding space and materiality and vice versa, particularly within the context of modernity and colonialism.

This book will be of interest to scholars working in design history, design studies, architectural history, art history, urban studies, and migration studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Authors’ Biographies
• 1 An Introduction to Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories
• 2 Provisional Demos: The Spatial Agency of Tent Cities
• 3 Being-in-the-World Displaced
• 4 Without Us There Is No You: Displaced Material Culture of Americans at The National Museum of the American Indian
• 5 Picturing Displacement: Moving Panoramas, Print Culture, and the Pictorial Slave Narrative of Pedro Tovookan Parris
• 6 Countering Displacement through Collective Memory: Recovering African American Landscapes Using The Texas Freedom Colonies Project Atlas
• 7 Nothing Ever Goes Away
• 8 Reframing Modern Design as Displacement: A Discussion through Decolonial Thinking on the Brazilian Experience
• 9 Place and Displacement in the Production of Swedish Modernity: A Suggestion for a Multi-sited Design History
• 10 Reconsidering Gender at RISD: Interior Architecture Education and Austrian Emigre Architect Ernst Lichtblau
• 11 “It was Jamaican Style, and They Didn’t Have Anything Like That in England”: An Oral History of Self-fashioning
• 12 Design by Disaster: ICSID and the League of Red Cross Societies (1971–1979)
• 13 Your Eyes Bother Us
• 14 Dispatch from the Aegean, 2021–2022
• 15 The Architecture of Emergency Shelters in the 2015 European Refugee Accommodation Crisis
• 16 The Spatial Simulation of Displacement: Notes on the Representation of the “Refugee Crisis”
• 17 Amending Wall
• 18 Pluralizing the Code: Designed National Symbols Beyond Reverence
• 19 Displaced Energy Practices: Autonomous Design in the Context of Humanitarian Intervention in Goudoubo Camp, Burkina Faso
• 20 Displacement as Protest Strategy: Political Resistance and Design Activism in the 2019–2020 Anti-ELAB Hong Kong Protests
• 21 Emplacing Displacement: A Conversation