Designing Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Designing Utopia write by Cathy Ross. This book was released on 2015-11-30. Designing Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first detailed account of the remarkable British writer and artist John Hargrave (1894-1982) and his three creations: The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, The Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit and The Social Credit Party of Great Britain. Combining art, politics and design to visually stunning effect, Hargrave and his followers created a maverick but uniquely English form of modernism, one which harked back to a mythical past but also looked forward to a futuristic Utopia when mankind would be freed from the tyranny of work and war. A product of his turbulent times, Hargrave believed in ritual, ceremony, symbology and the 'resolute imagination' of the creative individual as the keys to a better world.The book draws on the extensive visual archive of the Kibbo Kift, held at the Museum of London, comprising graphic designs, photographs, ceremonial objects, banners, costume, regalia, log books and archive material, much of which has not been seen in public since the 1920s and 1930s. The collection includes many striking photographs by Angus McBean, official 'Kin Photographer' in the late 1920s. Designing Utopia also touches on Hargrave's career as a writer. In his novels, as with his graphics, Hargrave's imagination drew from the fragmented modern world of mass culture, advertising and film he saw around him and re-cast its elements in ways that suited his convictions about social order.Hargrave and the Kibbo Kift have been under-explored by cultural historians. But their time has come. The story of the Kibbo Kift has strong resonances with twenty-first century debates about art, politics, individualism, anti-capitalism, nature and the environment. It is also a story about English youth adapting to a new century, new ideologies and a new sense of possibilities in a global world.
Designing Utopia
Designing Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Designing Utopia write by Michael H. Lang. This book was released on 1999. Designing Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The influence of John Ruskin's vision of the "Garden City"--small, beautiful communities set in green open spaces.
Design for Utopia
Design for Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Design for Utopia write by Charles Fourier. This book was released on 1971. Design for Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Design for Micro-Utopias
Design for Micro-Utopias - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Design for Micro-Utopias write by John Wood. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Design for Micro-Utopias available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everyone is already painfully aware of our predicament - ecological extinctions, dwindling fossil fuel reserves and economic chaos. The solutions are less obvious, despite the many opportunities that surround us. We have never had more access to resources, knowledge and technology but this is not the problem. What we lack most is creative thinking, fuelled by collective optimism. In a pragmatic world run by careerist experts this is hardly surprising. As voters and consumers we are trained to choose and complain, but not how to envisage what we really, really want. How can we design a better world unless we revive the art of dreaming? For without dreams we are lost. Perhaps it should be the duty of all citizens to imagine alternative futures; in effect, to think more like designers. After all, designers have always been dreamers, and have often found ways to realize their dreams. Design for Micro-Utopias does not advocate a single, monolithic Utopia. Rather, it invites readers to embrace a more pluralized and mercurial version of Thomas More's famous 1516 novel of the same name. It therefore encourages the proliferation of many 'micro-utopias' rather than one 'Utopia'. This requires a less negative, critical and rational approach. Referencing a wide range of philosophical thinking from Aristotle to the present day, western and eastern spiritual ideals, and scientific, biological and systems theory, John Wood offers remedies for our excessively individualistic, mechanistic and disconnected thinking, and asks whether a metadesign approach might bring about a new mode of governance. This is a daring idea. Ultimately, he reminds us that if we believe that we will never be able to design miracles we make it more likely that this is so. The first step is to turn the 'impossible' into the 'thinkable'.
Soviet Textiles
Soviet Textiles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Soviet Textiles write by Pamela Jill Kachurin. This book was released on 2006. Soviet Textiles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Soviet Textiles ISBN 0-87846-703-3 / 978-0-87846-703-7 Paperback, 8 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 52 color. / U.S. $24.95 CDN $30.00 August / Design
