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Session 20 Arts & Crafts Movement - Coggle Diagram
Session 20
Arts & Crafts Movement
Ethic dilemmas: Morris proposed a return to the past in which the figure of the craftsman embodied all the necessary values for building a better world
Against people acting like machines
Handcrafted production of objects is opposed to mechanization & automation of human labor
Going back meant going to Medieval Times (romanticism)
Movement connected notions of good design with those of good society
‘Create a design for the people and by the people’
Acquiring product from the maker to the user (taking pride in the work)
Against materialism
Movement consisted of a design philosophy than characteristics (process to change society)
William Morris: a socialist
Called for an end to air and water pollution to protect the environment
Prevention of urban sprawl and restoring historic buildings while respecting original structure
Denounced labor exploitation and perverse effects of industrialization
Was against misuse or abuse (of machines)
New ethos to reinvent craftsman shop (1975-1940)
Recovery of semi-craft/artisanal processes
Artisanal process helped by machines
Factory system breaks the link between the maker and the user
Revoring virtues of artisanal labor
Elaboration of high quality products
Environmental inspiration and references to exotic and non-British cultures
Japanese prints (shapes, colors)
1890: News from Nowhere by William Morris (to return to agrarian society)
Arts & Crafts Movement summary: characterized by the unity of form, function and ornamentation, a balance that industrial production…
Urban Transformations
Haussmann Plan in Paris: commissioned by Napoleon III to bring air and light to the center of the city, to unify the different neighborhoods with boulevards, and to make the city more beautiful
Grandeur
Grand Axis
Symbolism
Monumentalism
Demolitions to create a new Paris
Combining Working Class and Bourgeoisie in the same buildings
Going to need designers (interior, graphic, product, fashion)
Capitalism generates this need of having different professional designers: using design to sell products and today we have this necessity to consume, to buy.