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16
2000
| Editorial
The number in the
reader's hands is a miscellany, which means, of course, that it contains
articles on several themes. However, these articles can be grouped together in
three different areas: the first deals with television as a communications
medium, as well as the visual codes it uses; the second is made up of works
which reflect on design from different viewpoints; and, finally, there are two
articles on space, both from the general point of view which we can doubtless
call anthropological and from another more applied one.
Thus, this is a
group of articles on design or on cultural aspects surrounding this discipline —which allows us to
place it in social and cultural context. It seems obvious that those who wish
to understand design and the complexity it implies cannot limit their point of
view exclusively to the circumstance of this discipline, but must rather widen
their interest to the different ambits of social life related to design which,
in fact, condition it.
The reader should
rake into account that Temes de Disseny's editorial policy has always led in the same direction, which is none
other than the offer of a wide range of specific themes, along with others of
more general contents. This is where our title's sub-heading Design, Culture,
Technology, Communication comes from.
The first part, «Television, its
Language and Culture» is about some aspects of this medium
which we consider as making up the central core of the communications system
today. There is no need to underline the importance that media communications
currently enjoy in complex societies; this justifies Temes
de Disseny's interest in television, due to the
contents it carries, as well as some of the social and ethical problems the
medium raises.
This publication
had not dealt specifically with communications media, and especially
television, before, but we can be quite sure that in the near future current
events will oblige us to look at this theme more often.
The «Critique on Design» section always
comes up in our publication, for obvious reasons. In this present number, we
deal with themes which are yesterday's but also today's and, probably,
tomorrow's. What is, and what is not, design? What relation is there between
function and form, form and use? How have design projects and their industrial
production connected over time?
These are
questions asked over and over again that have received different answers
according to the times; we must now find the answers which correspond to our
own time. In this number we can also find a lucid reflection, from the
architectural point of view, on relations between natural and designed space.
In the last part, «Anthropology of
Space», we deal with two themes which refer, of course, to the idea of space.
On the one hand, basic living space, which is therefore anthropological and, on
the other, specific architectural space: that of museums and their insertion in
the city.
Temes de Disseny 16 contains a variety of themes, dealt with by contemporary specialists
from very different theoretic points of view.
Accordingly, we
offer a partial panorama which is, however, representative of some interests
focusing the attention of those who (in the world of design and its cultural
environment) still think over, quite beyond the banalities broadcasted due to
the discipline's growing popularity.
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Contents
16
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DANIEL CID MORAGAS The Museum and the city 16 2000 JAUME BARRERA ‘Gaps’: communication strategy in images 16 2000 ANNA CALVERA 'A Hot Cup of Consomee' Something between an essay and a dissertation on a possible aesthetic acception of the notion of utility proposed by Richard Redgrave about 1850 16 2000 JOSEP M. FORT MIR Nature and artifice: a search for a new balance 16 2000 JORDI BERRIO Design after the disappearance of the great metanarratives 16 2000 EVA PUJADAS CAPDEVILA Renovating the ethical view to take in the television image 16 2000 JORDI FARRÉ, ENRIC SAPERAS Television: a window open on the world? 16 2000 BLANCA SALA LLOPART Anthropology and Architecture. Appropriation of living space |