Preface: Jonathan Woodham, University of Brighton, UK
Introduction: Liz Farrelly, University of Brighton and Design Museum, UK and Joanna Weddell, University of Brighton and Research Department, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
Section 1: The Canon and Design in the Museum1. Exhibiting 'the taste of everyday things': Kenneth Clark and CEMA's wartime exhibitions of design,
Sue Breakell, University of Brighton, UK
2. The ethos of the V&A Circulation Department 1947-1960, Joanna Weddell, University of Brighton and the Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
3. 'I would suggest that you should not think of the Design Centre as a museum; it is a live, active, moving thing': Designs of the Year 1957, Ness Wood, University of Brighton, UK
4. Designing for a New Nigeria: Hayes Textiles Ltd and the British manufacture of gele in the post-colonial period, Nicola Stylianou, independent scholar, UK
5. Towards an Uncensored History of Design: Ideal Homes and Constance Spry at London's Design Museum, Deborah Sugg Ryan, University College Falmouth, UK
Section 2: Positioning Design Within and Beyond the Museum6. Contemporary Designers, Cultural Diplomacy and the Museum Without Walls, Gareth Williams, Royal College of Art, UK
7. Gallery Envy and Contingent Autonomy: Exhibiting Design Art, Damon Taylor, University of Brighton, UK
8. Indian Living Cultures: Collected, Exhibited, Performed, Megha Rajguru and Nicola Ashmore, University of Brighton, UK
9. The Triennale Design Museum, Milan: An Evolving Curatorial Project, Virginia Lucarelli, INDACO Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
10. Integrated yet discrete: Design in Norway's new National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Denise Hagströmer, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway
11. Curating Critical Design: An Embodied Criticality, Gillian Russell, Royal College of Art, UK
Section 3: Interpretation and the Challenge of Design12. Just what is it that makes curating design so different, so appealing? Helen Charman, Design Museum, UK
13. Intangibles: When Objects Become Interface, Jana Scholze, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
14. Design, Politics and Museum Presentation, Marianne Lamonaca, Bard Graduate Center, USA
15. Design and Museum Interpretation: A Comparative Evaluation of Contemporary Tropes, Jason Cleverly, University College Falmouth, UK
16. You Are Here, We Are There: Tracing NID's Design Histories, Tom Wilson, University of Brighton, the Design Museum, London and the British Council, UK
17. Interactions in the Museum: Design Culture Salons at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Guy Julier and Leah Armstrong, University of Brighton and Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
18. Museums Online: Institutional Transparency and the Digital Presence, Liz Farrelly, University of Brighton and Design Museum, UK
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Acknowledgements
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Index