Here’s the schedule for our ongoing conversation about design, design thinking and the antiquarian paradigm – history through things, collection, documentation, ethnography. [Link] – to more information I. Orientation Week 1, 23 September – What is antiquarianism? What is design? The importance of history in design. Antiquarianism as the model for the pre-disciplinary world. The…
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Binchester – plaster
David Petts has just released a picture of one of the pieces of plaster found this season in the excavations of Binchester Roman town. [Link] [Link] – Lapidarium Septentrionale (in edit)
Elevate Ensemble – presence and absence
Wonderful performance from Elevate Ensemble last night at San Francisco Conservatory. Superbly introduced and conducted by Chad Goodman. Highlight for me – a joint work “Bethlehem” by composer Danny Clay and photographer/urban archaeologist Jeremy Blakeslee Ambience and presence – in the old Bethlehem shipyards in San Francisco. Or rather absence – got me thinking again…
design and antiquarians – 3
This is a comment on the seminar series currently running between Stanford and Bard Graduate Center. [Link] This week – just what was antiquarianism – and why should we be interested? Piranesi’s imagination
Cultural heritage and violence in the Middle East
From Fiona Rose-Greenland on openDemocracy war encompasses the old things and places that make us who we are Cultural heritage and violence in the Middle East. Theatres of erasure: Syria and Iraq The violence in Iraq has killed nearly 6,000 civilians since the start of 2014, according to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq. In…
design and antiquarians – 2
This is a comment on the seminar series currently running between Stanford and Bard Graduate Center. [Link] This week – the origins of the design museum in the nineteenth century. The history of design history. The Victoria and Albert, South Kensington, London – original facade – established to improve British manufacturing
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