Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging

Grace Lees-Maffei is Professor of Design History and Programme Director for DHeritage, the Professional Doctorate in Heritage, at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History. She researches the mediation of design, design discourse, domesticity, national identity and globalization in design and the interplay of design and heritage. Rebecca Houze is Professor of Art and Design History at Northern Illinois University, USA and General Editor of the Bloomsbury Design Library. Her research examines cultures of collection and display in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She writes about the built environment in Europe and North America with a focus on women designers, international exhibitions, and national parks.

Introduction: Design (History) and Heritage (Studies): An Introduction Grace Lees-Maffei Part I. Monuments and Memorials Wellington Monument and the Uses of Heritage: Changing Purpose, New Meanings, Multiple Identities Barbara Wood Marginalised Heritage and Invisible History: The Silvertown War Memorial Louise Purbrick The India-Pakistan Border as Site for the Production of National Identity: Heritage by Design Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan Part II. Landscape, Place and Visitor Experience Design Indigenous Living ['Heritage'] Designing Tenets: Kulin ways of Singing, Designing, Nurturing and Nourishing Terrains of Identity Mandy Nicholson and David S. Jones Hopi House and the Design of Heritage at Grand Canyon National Park Rebecca Houze The Design Heritage of the Wintergardens at the Auckland Domain: Spectacular Enchantment Jacqueline Naismith Toward a Typology of Designed Heritage in Southeast Ohio: Mound, Marker, Mine Samuel Dodd Part III. Craft and Industrial Design Durer, Goethe, and the Poetics of Richard Riemerschmid's Modern Wooden Furniture Freyja Hartzell Royal Copenhagen vs. Porsgrund: Negotiating Ceramic Design Heritage in the Age of Copyright Peder Valle Lifestyle Branding, Nostalgia, and Hong Kong's Contested Heritage Daniel J. Huppatz Part IV. Textiles and Dress Reclaiming Heritage Narratives: Reweaving the Story of a Royal Wedding Dress Zoe Hendon A Canadian Maple Leaf Quilt: Design History and Natural Heritage Vanessa Nicholas Design, Politics, and Croatian Folk Heritage: Gingerbread and Lace Heidi Cook Part V. Graphic Design, Information Design and Typography South African Heritage Postcards: The Same Old Story? Jeanne van Eeden Modernist Graphics, New Typography, and the Design of Identity in the First Czechoslovak Republic Benjamin Benus Typography and Lettering as Design Heritage in Brazil Priscila Farias Part VI. Digitisation and Online User Experience Design Recontextualizing Burmese Colonial Photographs as Contemporary Fashion Accessories at Yangoods: 'To Revitalize Myanmar's Heritage' Carmin Berchiolly Designing Absence at the Anne Frank House Museum, Amsterdam, and the Secret Annex Online: Exhibition Design, Virtual Reality and Historic Preservation Sarah Lichtman