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Capitalist Design

Design in which the priority is producing profit and gaining capital, before creating a well-function or beautiful object

Example: Lecture 23, Ford Model T

Keyword: Industrial Design

Design for products that is intended to be mass produced

Example: Lecture 21, Wedgwood “Creamware” dinner plate

Keyword: Craft

The practice and labor of making something by hand which requires a high level of skill, often seen as secondary to intellectual creation.

Example: Lecture 21, Morris and Co. Pine cabinet

Keyword: Preservation

The effort to maintain a site or object in its original or existing state.

Example: Lecture 20, Nightingale-Brown House

Keyword: Archive

The materials/permanent records created or collected because of the enduring value of the information they contain, especially if those materials were kept according to provenance, original order, collective control.

Example: Lecture 19, General Archive of the Indies

Keyword: UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; establishes World Heritage Sites

Example: Lecture 20, Monticello

Keyword: Art

Everything and nothing; the manifestation of creative power and imagination to create something new

Example: bruh literally anything what the

Keyword: Colonialism

A practice of the extraction; seizing control and holding power over another country to extract its resources or occupy it with settlers.

Example: Lecture 19, General Archive of the Indies

Anni Albers and Aleex Reed

Hardware jewelry

c. 1940-46

Josef Albers

Interaction of Color

1963

Bauhaus Building, Dessau

1925-1932

Walter Gropius

Director’s Office

1923-25

Bauhaus

1919-1933

Bretton Woods Monetary Conference

1944

Margaret Bourke-White

Partition of India and Pakistan

1947

Le Corbusier

The High Court

Le Corbusier

Assembly Building, Chandigarh, India

1955

Chandigarh, capital complex construction photograph

METI “Hand-made” school, Rudrapur, Bangladesh

Anna Heringer, architect

2011

Rem Koolhaas

“Lagos in Mutations”

2000

LifeStraw

Gravity Light

General Archive of the Indies

Seville, Spain

1784-1785

Shae McCoy

West Baltimore Ruins “Dilapidated Row House Window in Overgrowth”

2018-2020

Paul Soulelis

Queer Archive Work

Mark Loughney

Pyrrhic Defeat: A Visual Study of Mass Incarceration

2014-present

Nightingale-Brown House

1792

Penn Station Protest

1963

Snowtown

Reggie Black

No Records

2020

Yinka Shonibare

Colonial Arrangements

2015

“Creamware” dinner plate

Wedgwood, England

1770s

Chintz Bed Hanging, made in India for British export

ca. 1725

Philip Webb and William Morris

Pine cabinet with leather, paint, and copper

1861

Nandala Bose

Poster for the Haripura Conference

1937

Margaret Bourke-White

Gandhi and the Spinning Wheel

1946

Keyword: Universal Design

Design intended to make things accessible to a wide variety of people regardless of factors like age, body size, or disability.

Example: Lecture 24, Marc Harrison, ILZRO House Kitchen

Keyword: Green Book Travel Guide

Guide created for Black drivers that catalogued hotels, restaurants, and other venues across the U.S. where they could travel and not be subject to racist violence.

Example: Lecture 23, Victor H. Green, The Green Book

Keyword: World’s Fair

Large exhibition to showcase the achievements of nations across the world, often centered the Western nations.

Example: Lecture 22, Ray and Charles Eames, “Think” film, 1964

Keyword: Radical Visibility

Dress reform movement which encourages queer and disabled folks to dress in order to not be ignored, to reject “passing” and assimilation.

Example: Lecture 24, Sky Cubacub, Rebirth Garments and Radical Visibility Zine

Keyword: Disability Agency

Keyword: Displacement

The coerced removal of people from their home/land by an oppressive power

Example: Lecture 17, Partition of India and Pakistan, Margaret Bourke-White

Keyword: Sensuality

The opposition to rationality; the expression physical or emotional sensation.

Example: Lecture 15, Adolf Loos, Bedroom for Lina Loos