Design, Displacement, Migration by Sarah A. Lichtman, Jilly T... - 9781032046945

Design, Displacement, MigrationSpatial and Material Histories\nAuthor(s): Sarah A. Lichtman, Jilly Traganou\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032046945, 978-1032046945\nSynopsis\nDesign, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voicesspanning design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation; poetry; activism; and social sciencesto interrogate the intersections of design and displacement.\n\nThe contributors foreground objects, spaces, visual, and material practices and consider designs role in the empire, the state, and various colonizing regimes in controlling the mass movement of people, things, and ideas across borders, as well as in social acts that resist forced mobility and immobility, or enact new possibilities. By consciously surfacing echoes, rhymes, and dissonances among varied histories, this volume highlights local specificit.