Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse, 1st Edition eBook

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Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation state. Rather than a conventional national design history survey that focuses on designers and objects, this is an in-depth study of the ideologies, organizations, strategies and politics that combined might be said to have “designed” the modern nation’s material and visual culture. The book analyses main tropes and threads in the design discourse generated around key institutions such as museums, organisations and magazines. Beginning with how British and continental design reform ideas were mediated in Norway and merged with a nationalist sentiment in the late nineteenth century, Designing Modern Norway traces the tireless and wide-ranging work undertaken by enthusiastic and highly committed design professionals throughout the twentieth century to simultaneously modernise the nation by design and to nationalise modern design. Bringing the discussion up towards the present, the book concludes with an examination of how Norway’s new-found wealth has profoundly changed the production, mediation and consumption of design.

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Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse 1st Edition is written by Kjetil Fallan and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Designing Modern Norway are 9781315528632, 1315528630 and the print ISBNs are 9781138316126, 1138316121. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781315528656, 9781315528649, 9781315528625, 9781472456625.