Design and Heritage The Construction of Identity and Belonging Key Issues in Cultural Heritage Series

Design and Heritage provides the first extended study of heritage from the point of view of design history. Exploring the material objects and spaces that contribute to our experience of heritage, the volume also examines the processes and practices that shape them.

Bringing together 18 case studies, written by authors from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Norway, India, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, the book questions how design functions to produce heritage. Including provocative case studies of objects that reinterpret visual symbols of cultural identity and buildings and monuments that evoke feelings of national pride and historical memory, as well as landscapes embedded with trauma, contributors consider how we can work to develop adequate shared conceptual models of heritage and apply them to design and its histories. Exploring the distinction between tangible and intangible heritages, the chapters consider what these categories mean for design history and heritage. Finally, the book questions whether it might be possible to promote a truly equitable understanding of heritage that illuminates the social, cultural and economic roles of design.

Design and Heritage demonstrates that design historical methods of inquiry contribute significantly to critical heritage studies. Academics, researchers and students engaged in the study of heritage, design history, material culture, folklore, art history, architectural history and social and cultural history will find much to interest them within the pages of the book.

Introduction: Design (History) and Heritage (Studies): An Introduction

Grace Lees-Maffei

Part I. Monuments and Memorials

1. Wellington Monument and the Uses of Heritage: Changing Purpose, New Meanings, Multiple Identities

Barbara Wood

2. Marginalised Heritage and Invisible History: The Silvertown War Memorial

Louise Purbrick

3. The India-Pakistan Border as Site for the Production of National Identity: Heritage by Design

Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan

Part II. Landscape, Place and Visitor Experience Design

4. Indigenous Living [‘Heritage’] Designing Tenets: Kulin ways of Singing, Designing, Nurturing and Nourishing Terrains of Identity

Mandy Nicholson and David S. Jones

5. Hopi House and the Design of Heritage at Grand Canyon National Park

Rebecca Houze

6. The Design Heritage of the Wintergardens at the Auckland Domain: Spectacular Enchantment

Jacqueline Naismith

7. Toward a Typology of Designed Heritage in Southeast Ohio: Mound, Marker, Mine

Samuel Dodd

Part III. Craft and Industrial Design

8. Dürer, Goethe, and the Poetics of Richard Riemerschmid's Modern Wooden Furniture

Freyja Hartzell

9. Royal Copenhagen vs. Porsgrund: Negotiating Ceramic Design Heritage in the Age of Copyright

Peder Valle

10. Lifestyle Branding, Nostalgia, and Hong Kong’s Contested Heritage

Daniel J. Huppatz

Part IV. Textiles and Dress

11. Reclaiming Heritage Narratives: Reweaving the Story of a Royal Wedding Dress

Zoë Hendon

12. A Canadian Maple Leaf Quilt: Design History and Natural Heritage

Vanessa Nicholas

13. Design, Politics, and Croatian Folk Heritage: Gingerbread and Lace

Heidi Cook

Part V. Graphic Design, Information Design and Typography

14. South African Heritage Postcards: The Same Old Story?

Jeanne van Eeden

15. Modernist Graphics, New Typography, and the Design of Identity in the First Czechoslovak Republic

Benjamin Benus

16. Typography and Lettering as Design Heritage in Brazil

Priscila Farias

Part VI. Digitisation and Online User Experience Design

17. Recontextualizing Burmese Colonial Photographs as Contemporary Fashion Accessories at Yangoods: ‘To Revitalize Myanmar’s Heritage’

Carmín Berchiolly

18. Designing Absence at the Anne Frank House Museum, Amsterdam, and the Secret Annex Online: Exhibition Design, Virtual Reality and Historic Preservation

Sarah Lichtman

Grace Lees-Maffei is Professor of Design History and Programme Director for DHeritage, the Professional Doctorate in Heritage, at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History. She researches the mediation of design, design discourse, domesticity, national identity and globalization in design and the interplay of design and heritage.

Rebecca Houze is Professor of Art and Design History at Northern Illinois University, USA and General Editor of the Bloomsbury Design Library. Her research examines cultures of collection and display in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She writes about the built environment in Europe and North America with a focus on women designers, international exhibitions, and national parks.