It's a nice idea, but it's not actually real: Assessing the objects and activities of design

International Journal of Art and Design Education

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 86-95

  Oak, Arlene ^a  

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EID: 33644986220     PISSN: 14768062     EISSN: 14768070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5949.00205     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. On the history of design and design education see Christopher Frayling, The Royal College of Art - 150 years of art and design, especially on design application, manufacturing needs and artistic aspiration.
2. On the contribution of the Bauhaus see, The New Architecture and the Bauhaus, where Walter Gropius echoed similar sentiments.
3. For more recent commentary, see David Thistlewood, Histories of Art and Design Education - Cole to Coldstream, where Thistlewood remarks that the point of view represented by design for industry, whose goals are the economic and material well-being of a nation, differs fundamentally from the notion of design for personal and cultural expression, whose goals are comparable to those of other arts and humanities subjects, i.e.. for its own sake.
4. For further detailed study see, exhibition catalogue, Bauhaus: 50 years, [1968] Royal Academy of Arts, London;
5. Adrian Rifkin's article in the Journal of Design History [1988] Vol 1.2: 'Success Disavowed: the Schools of Design in mid-19th century Britain';
6. the special issue of the journal Design Issues [1990] Vol 7.1, which featured design education;
7. and Jim Lesko's article in the Journal of Design History [1997] Vol 10.3
8. Bourdieu, P., Passeron, J., DeSaint Martin, M. Academic Discourse. Polity, 1994, p. 13
9. Pye, D. The Nature and Aesthetics of Design. Herbert, 1978, p. 27
10. The crit is often seen as mimicking a consultation between a designer and their client, with the instructor posing as the client
11. Schon, D. The Design Studio. RIBA, 1985, p. 55
12. For in-depth information on Conversation Analysis see, for example: Atkinson, J. & Heritage, J. Structures of Social Action [1984];
13. Boden, D. & Zimmerman, D. [1991] Talk and Social Structure;
14. Hutchby, I. & Wooffitt, R. [1998] Conversation Analysis. It should be noted that, while I adopt the techniques of CA for data analysis, I do not subscribe to the approach of some CA, whereby the order and structure of talk are considered rather than, say, topic choice or participant relationship.
15. Quotation from Assignment Brief for Project 2, second year, College A. Details on this project cannot be supplied due to a guarantee of confidentiality to research participants
16. Bourdieu, P., et al. Conversation Analysis. op. cit;
17. and Bourdieu, P., Idem. Language and Symbolic Power. Polity, 1994
18. Language and Symbolic Power. Ibid. 1994 p. 5
19. That design should be an agent of social change and conscience is advocated by, among others: Nigel Whiteley [1993] Design for Society,
20. Victor Papanek [1972 and 1995] Design for the Real World and The Green Imperative,
21. and Carl Mitcham, Tony Fry and Ezio Manzini in the articles in the section Values and Responsibilities in Buchanan & Margolin [Eds.] [1995] Discovering Design