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Design Dispersed pursues the complex and heterogeneous connections between migration and design in the 20th and 21st centuries. The edited volume gathers contributions by international researchers and curators on the question of how design practices and (historical) objects articulate, respond to and critically reflect on migration, flight and displacement: Besides a collage which highlights the aesthetic effects resulting from the networking, overlapping and mixing of forms, another strand of the book looks at the political and social dimensions of design. How are design objects material modes of a critical inquiry on movements of people and things? What role do object trajectories play in the émigré movements of the 1930s and 1940s? Other texts follow the question of how migrants and refugees form their experience and political fight for acceptance into design and architectural productions. A final essay contributes to wordings and projections - what vocabulary do we need in order to adequately think and write about a design dispersed?

Migration, Internal. --- Design and history. --- History and design --- History --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Population geography --- Internal migrants --- E-books --- Architecture. --- Art History. --- Design History. --- Exile Studies. --- Fashion. --- Fleeing. --- Material Culture. --- Migration Studies. --- Migration. --- Political Art. --- Refugee Studies. --- Design --- Design. --- Emigration and immigration --- Emigration and immigration. --- 1900-2099. --- Design; Design History; Art History; Architecture; Migration Studies; Exile Studies; Material Culture; Fashion; Migration; Fleeing; Refugee Studies; Political Art --- 1900-2099

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Examines urban structures and development patterns of Cairo, Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa, and Johannesburg through the eyes of European and African artists. Includes texts on the subject "City and Film;" the colonial planning practice of Ernst May in East Africa; an interview with the London architect David Adjaye and a picture essay on the informal architectures of the five cities.

Art, African --- Art, European --- Art, Modern --- Arts --- Cities and towns --- Themes, motives --- Africa --- Civilization --- In art

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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.

Design --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- History --- Influence --- Design; Design History; Art History; African Studies; Architecture; Exhibition; Europe; European Art; African Art; Art History of the 20th Century --- African Art. --- African Studies. --- Architecture. --- Art History of the 20th Century. --- Art History. --- Design History. --- Europe. --- European Art. --- Exhibition.

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