La Barcelona del diseño
2008
La Barcelona del diseño
Biographies
Narotzky, Viviana
Viviana Narotzky is an industrial designer. In London, she worked at the Jasper Morrison studio and received her doctorate in the History of Design at the Royal College of Art, where she is Senior Research Fellow and teaches on the History of Design master’s programme, jointly run by the Royal College of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. A member of the board of trustees of the History of Design Foundation of Barcelona and the editorial committee of the Journal of Design History. She is the author of numerous publications on contemporary design and material culture.
In an historical context marked by major upheavals following the Spanish political transition and the rise of the nationalist discourse in Catalonia, design and architecture provided Barcelona with the foundations of its new urban narrative: that of a post-industrial provincial capital in decline miraculously transformed into a sophisticated European metropolis, as the city of design. The concepts of local identity and modernity were brought to life in urban settings and daily objects within everyone’s reach.
Taking readers on both an entertaining and historically rigorous journey, this book focuses on the milestones in the recent history of design in Barcelona, since its emergence in the sixties, through the euphoria of the 1992 Olympic Games, up until the more recent work of today’s designers. La Barcelona del diseño looks at both professional practice and production, retail, institutional mediation, the process of urban regeneration, popular consumption and use itself, offering a detailed analysis of the evolution, meaning and value of design in Barcelona.
ISBN: 978-84-934626-4-2
viviana-narotzky – 2008
Spanish
Paperback, 23.5 x 16 cm / 9.165″ x 6.24″
329 pp