Histories of Design Pedagogy Virtual Special Issue for the Journal of Design History 2016

The concept of “city design” is revealed as a special type of design and art synthesis of architecture, monumental and decorative art, urban planning and landscape design at the level of individual forms, urban spaces and ensembles, as well as the city as a whole. Using a multilinear approach to presenting the history of design, the authors of this article pay special attention to factors affecting the form-finding in design that actively influence it both at the designing stage and also allow us to consider the evolution of design objects in interrelation with political, economic and cultural events in the world. The main stages of the historical development of the design of the city of the industrial and post-industrial periods are considered on the basis of a multilinear approach in the presentation of the historical process, which meets the new concepts and ideals of the post-industrial society with a holistic picture of the worldview. They show the complexity and multidimensionality of the task of representing the history of city design and the need for special studies of this relatively new phenomenon in the general design and art culture of the XX-XXI centuries.

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Multilinear Approach Approach in Modern Mental Representation of Design History

Mihaylova

2020

Technical Aesthetics and Design Research

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The rapid development over the past decades is the main difference between the history of design and the history of art and architecture. Due to the sensitive reaction to social changes, the history of design shows us evolutionary processes through the subject forms surrounding a person. The assumption that objects are a kind of cultural quintessence, demonstrating to us the level of technology development, consumer preferences, and methods of designing and shaping, reinforces the need for a comprehensive and multi-aspect consideration of evolutionary processes in the history of design. In this regard, the author refers to modern methods of considering historical and cultural processes and applies them to the history of design, taking into account the specifics of the object under consideration. As a result, the article discusses the transition from a monolinear approach to the consideration of historical processes to a multilinear one using the history of design as an example. It is proposed to study the history of design as a single multilinear process, consisting of relatively independent movements (lines) of design, linked into a single design and art system with common features (art-style, formal-compositional, etc.) and development trends. The conceptual historical and theoretical model of multilinear historical development of design reflects the specifics of design as a complex type of design and artistic activity and the features of its development at the modern post-industrial stage of society development. The article also formulates the basic principles of a multilinear representation of the history of design, such as "phenomenological principle", "historical-geographic principle", "phenomenal-geographic principle", "principle of interrelated design profiles", "principle of multilevel matrix", i.e. the principles forming the basis of the historical-theoretical model of design history.

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Histories of Design Pedagogy Virtual Special Issue for the Journal of Design History 2016

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Multilinear Approach Approach in Modern Mental Representation of Design History

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