Design History Society Annual
Conference 2017, Making and Unmaking the Environment
University of Oslo, 7-9 September 2017
University of Oslo, 7-9 September 2017
Design is
both making and unmaking the environment. Conversely, it might be argued that
the environment is both making and unmaking design. This conference seeks to
explore how these processes unfold, across timescapes and landscapes, thus
opening a new agenda for the field of design history.
In the
anthropocene, we can no longer talk about design (and) culture without also
talking about design (and) nature. The conference theme is intended to
stimulate new directions in
design historical discourses that take seriously
design’s complex interrelations with nature and the environment. Not only does
design feature prominently in the making and unmaking of the environment;
studying the history of these processes will also help reveal how the idea of
the environment itself has been articulated over time. Engaging with issues of
environmental controversies and sustainable development can move design history
beyond its conventional societal significance, and may thus enable more
resilient futures.
Relevant
topics include, but are not limited to:
- Design and
consumption
- Repairing, fixing, mending
- Design in nature
- Design of nature
- Histories of sustainable design
- Histories of unsustainable design
- Environmentalist movements and design
- Design movements and the environment
- Durability and ephemerality
- Impacts of materials and manufacturing
- Imaging nature(s)
- Greenwashing & greenwishing
- Designs on the Anthropocene
- Politics and policies of sustainable design
- Design and alternative energy
- Designing doom and gloom
- Designing technofixes
- Appropriate technology
- Eco-modernism vs. green conservatism
- Eco-fiction/Eco-topias
- Deep ecology as design philosophy
- Traditional design for resilient futures
- Visual culture of the environmental crisis
- Waste and afterlives
- Silent springs and atomic winters
- Social sustainability
- Ecology and systems design
- Navigating spaceship earth
- Earthships and biodomes
- Biomimicry and generative design
- Repairing, fixing, mending
- Design in nature
- Design of nature
- Histories of sustainable design
- Histories of unsustainable design
- Environmentalist movements and design
- Design movements and the environment
- Durability and ephemerality
- Impacts of materials and manufacturing
- Imaging nature(s)
- Greenwashing & greenwishing
- Designs on the Anthropocene
- Politics and policies of sustainable design
- Design and alternative energy
- Designing doom and gloom
- Designing technofixes
- Appropriate technology
- Eco-modernism vs. green conservatism
- Eco-fiction/Eco-topias
- Deep ecology as design philosophy
- Traditional design for resilient futures
- Visual culture of the environmental crisis
- Waste and afterlives
- Silent springs and atomic winters
- Social sustainability
- Ecology and systems design
- Navigating spaceship earth
- Earthships and biodomes
- Biomimicry and generative design
Deadline for
submission of abstracts: 20 January 2017
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