Year: 2004
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The paper sets out to: • describe globalization in the context of product design, visual communication and multimedia; • describe the elements of design that matter in a moral sense and those that do not; • assess the vulnerability of design to pressure to become a promotional organ of global vanity; • explain the reluctance of authors to adopt a critical stance with regard to the vanity of many products; • identify the problems besetting design discourse, which cause it to be largely mute in the evaluation of design in the context of cultural life; and, • investigate the methodological challenges and embarrassments of a future critical discourse in design which is better able to address the current issues and problems damaging the moral and intellectual credibility of the field
Source: Proceedings of DRS
DOI: 10.21606/drs.2004.60
Author: Robert Nelson
Institution: Monash University
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2893853515