List of Illustrations viiiAbout the Editor xiiNotes on Contributors xiiiAcknowledgments xviiiSeries Editor's Preface xixIntroduction 1Anne MasseyPart I Time 71 Contemporary Design History 9Sarah Teasley2 Nostalgia 32Elizabeth Guffey3 Design Futures 51Damon TaylorPart II Place 734 Transnationalism for Design History: Knowledge Production and Decolonization Through East Asian Design History 75Yuko Kikuchi5 African Fashion Design and the Mobilization of Tradition 91Victoria L. Rovine6 Urban Sights: From Outdoor Streets to Interior Urbanism 111Gregory MarinicPart III Space 1377 Virtual Space 139Rina Arya8 Interior Atmosphere 157Lois Weinthal9 Home Truths: Identity and Materiality in the Postwar Interior 173Ben Highmore10 Design of Contemporary Mega-Events 189Graeme EvansPart IV Object 21511 The Vibrant Object 217Alexa Griffith Winton12 The Consumed Object 240Jonathan Bean13 The Object of Design History: Lessons for the Environment 260Kjetil Fallan14 The Fashionable Object 284Christopher Breward15 The Written Object: Design Journalism, Consumption, and Literature Since 1945 299Grace Lees-Maffei16 Destabilizing the Scenario of Design: Queer/Trans/ Gender-Neutral 326John PotvinPart V Audiences 35117 Luxury and Design: Another Time, Another Place 353Jonathan Faiers18 Amateur Design 373Paul Atkinson19 The Professionalization of Interior Design 393Mark Taylor and Natalie Haskell20 Design Education in Higher Education 412Vicky Gunn21 Design Against Consumerism 436Paul Micklethwaite22 Guilty Pleasures: Taste, Design, and Democracy 457Malcolm QuinnIndex 479
Anne Massey is a freelance design writer and researcher as well as Visiting Professor at Richmond, The American International University in London. She was Professor of Design and Culture at University of the Arts London until 2017. She has written eight books and has a particular interest in the ways in which histories and theories of design and culture are presented and represented over time.