Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference
By Oxford University
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Description
2014 was a year of commemoration for the wars and unrest of the twentieth century: the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War; the anniversaries of 1944, final year of the Second World War and the opening battles of the Vietnam War in 1954; the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994. Claire O’Mahony, Course Director of the MSt in the History of Design, convened the 2014 annual Design History Society conference at Oxford's Department for Continuing Education reflecting upon the relationship of design and craft both to conflict and to hopes for peace and justice in our collective memory and our future. Between Thursday 4 and Saturday 6 September 2014, 120 scholars travelled from 19 countries around the globe to meet at Rewley House to share and to discuss their new research about Design for War and Peace. Professors and doctoral candidates; practitioners, museum and heritage professionals and independent scholars presented 65 academic papers, framed by 3 invited keynote lectures generously funded by the Design History Society and the University of Oxford’s John Fell Fund. The keynote lectures were filmed and most of the speakers generously gave permission to podcast their 20-minute papers. These recordings form this digital conference proceeding which was made possible through the generosity of the University of Oxford’s John Fell Fund supporting the administrative work of a 2013-5 MSt in the History of Design student, Vega Bantock, and the technical support the Department for Continuing Education IT team.
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Decorated Handkerchiefs: cotton, colours and conflict ‘in and about’ Northern Ireland | This paper examines a cotton handkerchief decorated by women republican prisoners Armagh Jail in 1976. It considers the power of cloth, its appropriation and circulation through in prisons of the conflict ‘in and about’ Northern Ireland. | 5 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Jewish Teenager in Hiding: Representations of Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank | Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl (1952) chronicles the two years that Anne, her family, and four other Jews spent in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. This paper focuses on the postwar adaptations of Fran | 21 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Design for the Reconstruction: housing Exhibitions and the QT8 Model District at the ninth Triennale in Milan (1947) | The reconstruction in Italy is perceived as a call by architects who, after the fall of Fascism and the Civil War. The first postwar Triennale in 1947 is the test for the new design, architecture and urban planning in Italy. | 21 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clothing Soldiers: Development of an organised system of production and supply of military clothing in England between 1645 and 1708 | This paper will set up and identify certain needs that a soldier's clothing of this period had to satisfy and will provide an analysis of the processes and systems of supply in place between 1645 and 1708 in order to identify changes and developments in | 21 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Arthur Wragg: Pacifist Polemics in Black and White | Arthur Wragg | 9 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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“Not for Glory, not for Gain!” The Czech Glass Spartakiad Figurine, 1955 | This paper looks at the glass figurines of Czech artist Miloslav Klinger, made to commemorate the 1955 Prague Spartakiad, as complex sites of memory, craft and political propaganda. | 7 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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“Design, Domesticity and Revolution: Transitioning the Cuban Ideal Home” | Through an examination of domestic advice and advertisements found in Cuban popular magazines, this paper explores the relationship between politics and popular media during the period 1950 to 1970. Over the past fifty-four years, the Cuban Revolution h | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Politics of Memory: Designing the Ganatantra Smarak (Republic Memorial), Kathmandu, Nepal | Examination of the design competition of Nepal's republic memorial. | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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War on Wheels | First World War vehicles as instruments of order and chaos. | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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‘Help to win the war’: an analysis of the typographic posters produced by the New Zealand Government 1914-1918 | This paper analyses typographic posters produced by the New Zealand Government in WWI to recruit men and money to the war effort. They chart the progress of recruitment strategies from voluntarism through to the contested years leading to conscription. | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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‘Public memory and everyday memorials: work of the Imperial War Graves Commission’ | The paper highlights tensions that appeared in the near routine collection of trophies for memorials and the design of war cemeteries between British imperial offices and those of former colonies, particularly Australia’s War Records Section. | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Images of Women in a Changing Colonial Taiwanese Society during the Period of World War I | Propaganda: graphic design and print culture This research analyses image and visual graphic design to obtain a deeper understanding of the changes which occurred in women’s positions and images as a result of transformations in societal structure bef | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Funky Bunkers: The Post-Military Landscape as a Readymade Space and a Cultural Playgound | On adapted reuse of military establishments. As an analogy to the theory of readymades, the author argues that ‘readymade space’ is a utile metaphor to describe the cultural alchemy of appropriation in which vacant buildings such as military establi | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cultural Trauma: Kós, Kozma, and Hungarian Design in the First World War | By comparing the work and career trajectories of these two architect-designers, this paper explored the changes in taste, style and cultural meaning of the dominant trends in Hungarian interior design before and after World War 1. | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Furniture in Portugal, 1940-1974: between tradition, authoritarianism and modernity | Portuguese design furniture (1940-1974) and the industrial policies of the New State's dictatorship. Through furnishing is revealed a discourse between a nationalistic intent and a gradual adoption of the modern movement, reflecting the dynamics that f | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Authenticity and commemoration: an analysis of Otto Weidt Worshop for the Blind and the Jewish Museum in Berlin | This paper will analyse both spaces according to their scale, location in the city, authenticity, phenomenology and prosthetic memory, in order to determine whether design can enhance and protect our collective memory. Berlin has become one of the most | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Collective Memory and Conflict Representation: War and Peace in Colombian Museums | This paper studies some Colombian museums that are reflecting upon war. Colombia’s internal armed conflict has lasted for more than fifty years, and its causes and effects are still difficult to understand. Recent political and social events are d | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Ambassador of Good Will': Three Centuries of American Art in 1930s Europe | The 1938 exhibition, Three Centuries of American Art, on display in Europe and the United States. | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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South African poster propaganda during the Second World War | The paper examines poster propaganda produced in South Africa during the Second World War. The production and use of propaganda posters is described and particular attention is paid to the manner in which the posters structure their visual arguments to | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt: Mourning an Ongoing War | Contemporary Design History; History of the AIDS Crisis As Susan Sontag pointed out, the American AIDs epidemic is characterised by powerful, apocalyptic metaphors. And, whether one is talking in terms of the syndrome itself; in relation to government i | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Syonan Shimbun: Singapore's Wartime Newspaper | The presentation looks at the design and production of this propaganda paper as part of the wider history of the Singaporean Straits Times, the newspaper it briefly replaced. The Syonan Shimbun was a Japanese newspaper published during the Occupation of | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Designed to Kill : The Difficult Study of Military Design | Design is perceived by most as a positive concept meant to improve people lives. But it is first a means to answer efficiently a specific purpose. How can we morally accept that the act of killing led to the development of an important design industry? | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Camouflage for peace: disruptive pattern material and dazzle painting in contemporary design and art | The aim of this paper is to analyse the consequences of this change, in other words, the examination of the ways, the strategies, the semiotics and the social uses of the objects which conform the so-called camouflage for peace. Both World Wars in the 2 | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Draw me an AK-47: Transnational imaginaries in the trenches of the cold war | This paper examines the image of the Kalashnikov in the cold war period through two intersecting lenses that cut across disciplines of design –– the object in its public mediation and the image in its transnational circulation through print culture. | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Good Housing depends on You”: Wartime Housing, 1942 | MoMA’s 1942 Wartime Housing exhibition demonstrated that housing contributed to the war effort. Through innovative display, the museum proposed that new materials, modern techniques, and community planning would create lively permanent communities. | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Quiet, Humane and ‘Anonymous’: Pevsner’s art-historical response to wartime | This paper focuses on Pevsner’s wartime writings. This paper focuses on Pevsner’s wartime writings and intends to examine his architectural/art historical emphasis upon quiet, humane and ‘anonymous’ buildings and living communities, as his activ | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Furniture Behind the Wire | An examination of the material culture and social history of the German internees held on the Isle of Man, who made furniture designed by CR Mackintosh for the Northampton home of the Bassett-Lowke family between 1916 and 1919. | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The secret dollhouse: craft and resistance in Stalinist Estonia | My presentation will focus on the subject of nonprofessional craft as a tool of resistance against the official power. I will be concentrating on one particular case study from Soviet Estonia, dating from the 1940s. | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Material objects and visual web presentation: the Virtual Peace Palace Museum | Material objects and visual web presentation: the Virtual Peace Palace Museum. This paper aims to compare the ‘affect-effect’ of material culture and design on war and peace as may be experienced by direct contact with a real environment to a web-co | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conflicting Views: Print Propaganda Depicting Tourism in a Landscape of War | An analysis of Ruth Taylor White’s “cartograph” for the 1945 guidebook A G.I. View of American Red Cross China, India and Burma, published by the American Red Cross. | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Prints of Peace: Elihu Burritt and the graphics of reform | This talk examines the propaganda campaign conducted by mid-nineteenth century American reformer Elihu Burritt and a group of engravers and artists who used the graphic potential of postal items, such as envelopes, to pressure politicians for peace. | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book and musket | graphic design of Italian school reports and diplomas during the Fascism | In the interwar period, the Italian school reports and diplomas turned into a direct expression of the most advanced artistic research. Fascism revolutionized institutional graphic design to achieve a modern effective communication. | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Modernising the V&A: From War to Reconstruction 1918-51 | In the aftermath of two world wars, the V&A struggled to reconstruct a national view of contemporary art and design in which Britain’s industrial past and contemporary developments could be reconciled. Contemporary design was the main catalyst agains | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dressed to Dissent: 'Catch-22' Clothing | This paper examines dress as a form of anti-war Vietnam protest using the cross dressing character of Corporal Maxwell Klinger on the long-running American sitcom MASH as its focus. | 30 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Design during the War: the seventh Triennale in Milan and the Mostra della produzione in serie (Serial production exhibition, 1940) | The Serial production exhibition, by Giuseppe Pagano, opens a new attitude in Italian design. The most advanced industrial products are shown to the public: typewriters, calculators, metal furnitures, microscopes, optical instruments, raincoats and so o | 28 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ENIAC versus Colossus and the early presentation of electronic computers | A description of the concurrent yet different development of electronic computers during WWII in the UK and US– most notably the secrecy of the UK development compared to the widely known work in the US and the consequent effects on the computing indu | 28 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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‘Propaganda in Three Dimensions’: British Ministry of Information Exhibitions During World War Two | Exhibitions designed by the British Ministry of Information exhibitions branch during World War Two as official propaganda: their methods and impact. | 28 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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