2014 was a year of commemoration for the wars and unrest of the twentieth century: the centenary of the outbreak of First World War; final year of Second World War, opening battles of Vietnam War in 1954; the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994. Course Director of MSt in the History of Design convened 2014 annual Design History Society conference at Oxford’s Department.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Credit: University of Oxford
Course Curriculum
| Module: 01 | |||
| ‘Propaganda in Three Dimensions’: British Ministry of Information Exhibitions During World War Two | 00:19:00 | ||
| ENIAC versus Colossus and the early presentation of electronic computers | 00:22:00 | ||
| Design during the War: the seventh Triennale in Milan and the Mostra della produzione in serie (Serial production exhibition, 1940) | 00:17:00 | ||
| Dressed to Dissent: ‘Catch-22’ Clothing | 00:25:00 | ||
| Modernising the V&A: From War to Reconstruction 1918-51 | 00:22:00 | ||
| Module: 02 | |||
| Book and musket | graphic design of Italian school reports and diplomas during the Fascism | 00:20:00 | ||
| Prints of Peace: Elihu Burritt and the graphics of reform | 00:19:00 | ||
| Conflicting Views: Print Propaganda Depicting Tourism in a Landscape of War | 00:21:00 | ||
| Material objects and visual web presentation: the Virtual Peace Palace Museum | 00:30:00 | ||
| The secret dollhouse: craft and resistance in Stalinist Estonia | 00:18:00 | ||
| Module: 03 | |||
| Furniture Behind the Wire | 00:25:00 | ||
| Quiet, Humane and ‘Anonymous’: Pevsner’s art-historical response to wartime | 00:18:00 | ||
| “Good Housing depends on You”: Wartime Housing, 1942 | 00:23:00 | ||
| Draw me an AK-47: Transnational imaginaries in the trenches of the cold war | 00:25:00 | ||
| Camouflage for peace: disruptive pattern material and dazzle painting in contemporary design and art | 00:19:00 | ||
| Module: 04 | |||
| Designed to Kill : The Difficult Study of Military Design | 00:22:00 | ||
| Syonan Shimbun: Singapore’s Wartime Newspaper | 00:19:00 | ||
| The AIDS Memorial Quilt: Mourning an Ongoing War | 00:20:00 | ||
| South African poster propaganda during the Second World War | 00:22:00 | ||
| Collective Memory and Conflict Representation: War and Peace in Colombian Museums | 00:21:00 | ||
| Module: 05 | |||
| Authenticity and commemoration: an analysis of Otto Weidt Worshop for the Blind and the Jewish Museum in Berlin | 00:23:00 | ||
| Furniture in Portugal, 1940-1974: between tradition, authoritarianism and modernity | 00:21:00 | ||
| Cultural Trauma: Kós, Kozma, and Hungarian Design in the First World War | 00:25:00 | ||
| Funky Bunkers: The Post-Military Landscape as a Readymade Space and a Cultural Playgound | 00:19:00 | ||
| Images of Women in a Changing Colonial Taiwanese Society during the Period of World War I | 00:19:00 | ||
| Module: 06 | |||
| Public memory and everyday memorials: work of the Imperial War Graves Commission’ | 00:24:00 | ||
| Help to win the war’: an analysis of the typographic posters produced by the New Zealand Government 1914-1918 | 00:27:00 | ||
| War on Wheels | 00:28:00 | ||
| The Politics of Memory: Designing the Ganatantra Smarak (Republic Memorial), Kathmandu, Nepal | 00:20:00 | ||
| “Design, Domesticity and Revolution: Transitioning the Cuban Ideal Home” | 00:20:00 | ||
| Module: 07 | |||
| “Not for Glory, not for Gain!” The Czech Glass Spartakiad Figurine, 1955 | 00:24:00 | ||
| Arthur Wragg: Pacifist Polemics in Black and White | 00:23:00 | ||
| Designed to Kill: The Social Life of Weapons in Twentieth Century Britain | 00:25:00 | ||
| Trapped in Shells: Mindset and Materiality in First World War Trench Art and Beyond | 02:10:00 | ||
| How Disabled Design Changed the History of Modernism. | 00:00:00 | ||
| Module: 08 | |||
| Clothing Soldiers: Development of an organised system of production and supply of military clothing in England between 1645 and 1708 | 00:23:00 | ||
| Design for the Reconstruction: housing Exhibitions and the QT8 Model District at the ninth Triennale in Milan (1947) | 00:16:00 | ||
| A Jewish Teenager in Hiding: Representations of Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank | 00:25:00 | ||
| Decorated Handkerchiefs: cotton, colours and conflict ‘in and about’ Northern Ireland | 00:23:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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