Covering the 1960s and 1970s, this volume explores new ways of investigating, comparing and interpreting the different domains of design culture across the Nordic countries.
Introduction: Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 19601980
Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund and Anders V. Munch
PART I: Transforming Discourse
1. The Way North: Merging Ideology and Methodology on the Road to Ecological Design
Kjetil Fallan
2. The Total, Global, Living Environment: A Key Concept in the Danish Design Debate around 1970
Anders V. Munch and Hans-Christian Jensen
3. Students of Architecture as Environmental Activists: Two Sister Exhibitions about the Environmental Crisis in Sweden and Norway, 19681969
Beata Labuhn
4. Exhibition as a Critical Tool: A Conversation with Gunilla Lundahl on Exhibitions, Making Change and Participation
Christina Zetterlund
5. Nordic Revival: Crafting Rural Development in Finnish and Norwegian Design Discourse
Malin Graesse and Kaisu Savola
6. Sami Mobilisation: Institutions and Exhibitions in the 1970s
Anna Westman Kuhmunen
Part II: Transforming Institutions
7. Exhibiting New Cultures of Design: Representing the Cultural and Social Meanings of Design in Three Nordic Exhibitions
Peder Valle, Sabina Maria Rossau and Leena Svinhufvud
8. On a Stormy Sea: Design Education and Politics in Finland
Pekka Korvenmaa
9. Voices of Rebellionlƒh