Harmful or Useless? Victor Papanek and the Danish Design Students’ Protests.

Anders V. Munch, Alison Clarke, Vibeke Riisberg, Lene Kjærbye Pedersen

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Abstract

Victor Papanek dedicated his book, Design for the Real World, ‘to all his students thanking them for what they had taught him’. He might have been thinking of both his American students and the Scandinavian students he met at summer schools and lectures at Nordic architectural and design schools in the late 1960s. The latter taught him lessons in design activism, user involvement and collaboration that showed new methods for industrial design, in order to prevent it from being the most ’harmful profession’ – together with advertising – in the ways it helped accelerate global consumption and waste, social inequality and pollution (Papanek 1971a; Clarke 2013). He lectured in Denmark several times from 1969 on, and moved to Copenhagen as a guest professor for one year in 1972/73. So he both inspired and experienced the student protests and reform processes at the Danish schools of architecture and design during the most turbulent years. Some of his ideas on design education were published in Danish as well, and this makes it interesting to compare these ideas with the events, debates and reforms at the Danish schools.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelNordic Design Cultures in Transformation 1960-1980: Revolt and Resilience
RedaktørerAnders V. Munch, Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund
ForlagRoutledge Taylor & Francis group
StatusAccepteret/In press - 2022

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