Between Chairs Design Pedagogies in Transcultural Dialogue |
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| Editor:
| Bittner, Regina |
| Text by:
| Bittner, Regina
Grasse, Marleen
Kulick, Gwendolyn
Kwong, Oscar
Martinez, Claudia I.
Oeken, Marlene
Rutschmann, Kathrin
Silva, Pedro |
| ISBN: | 978-3-95905-196-5 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2018 |
| Publisher: | Dreen, Markus, Anne König u. Jan Wenzel. Spectormag GbR
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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In 1965, Hans Gugelot (1920-65), professor of design at the Ulm School of Design, and the students at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad collaboratively designed a group of chairs and a table--the India Lounge.
The postgraduate research program the Bauhaus Lab has taken up the India Lounge (also known as the 24/42 Chairs) as the starting point for a study of transcultural design in the 1960s. As the researchers discovered, the original chair itself (now lost) was...
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In 1965, Hans Gugelot (1920-65), professor of design at the Ulm School of Design, and the students at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad collaboratively designed a group of chairs and a table--the India Lounge.
The postgraduate research program the Bauhaus Lab has taken up the India Lounge (also known as the 24/42 Chairs) as the starting point for a study of transcultural design in the 1960s. As the researchers discovered, the original chair itself (now lost) was the product of several complex design issues. As they worked on their designs, the students and faculty negotiated questions of the relationship between craft and design, local and universal, traditional methods and modern needs, and international debates about what constitutes a socially responsible designer.