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 resisting forced mobility and immobility, or enacting 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.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in design history, design studies, architectural history, art history, urban studies, and migration studies.
About the Author: Jilly Traganou is professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Parsons School of Design, and directs the PhD in Public and Urban Policy, The New School.
Sarah A. Lichtman is an associate professor of design history at Parsons School of Design (The New School), and Dean of the School of Art and Design History and Theory.
