Kjetil Fallan
Biographic Data
| ID | 478226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kjetil Fallan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kjetil |
| FAMILY NAME | Fallan |
| SIGNATURE | FALLAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Designing is Mining
The modern design profession is often considered a product of the Industrial Revolution's division of labor, which separated the ideation of artifacts from their execution. As part of the same legacy, where industrial manufacturing—as a system—was premised on the exploitation of extractive materials and fossil fuels, designers are natural-born miners. Designing entails crucial decisions on which and how much materials to mine, blast, drill, excav…
Eloge
Dyp design i Ville vesten
Fjellklatring og filosofi er noe uventede, men betydningsfulle forbundsfeller i historien om økologisk design. Mot slutten av 1960-tallet utviklet en gruppe norske filosofer, som også var ivrige klatrere, en særegen måte å forstå relasjonene mellom mennesker og naturen for øvrig, samt mellom natur og kultur. Mest kjent av disse er Arne Næss, som lanserte begrepet dypøkologi. Dette begrepet har siden fått stor utbredelse, både politisk og akademis…
The Culture of Nature in the History of Design
This chapter examines hydro-electric power schemes in the Scottish Highlands after World War Two. While this initiative was seen by modernising central planners as an urgent corrective to the long-standing decline of this ‘semi-derelict region’ there was equal pressure to maintain the artificial wilderness of the Highlands as a ‘cultural museum’, as a potent focus for various local and national communities of interest. \n \nThe design elements, s…
Culture of Nature in the History of Design
Designing Worlds
Nordic Noir
The countries of Scandinavia are routinely touted as peaceful, harmonious societies. Correspondingly, Scandinavian design is promoted as democratic, humane, and friendly. However, the reality is that Scandinavian history is fraught with military conflict, and that not all Scandinavian design is benign. These two less advertised trajectories in Scandinavian culture converge on the region’s military arms industry, which for more than a century duti…
Eseh Notepad
The Enthusiast's Eye
If design history research relies solely on institutionalized documentation and academic scholarship – that is, sanctioned knowledge – not only will its purview be limited to a very narrow segment of design culture, it will also lose out on a vast array of sources to valuable knowledge about our material environment produced by amateurs, collectors, and enthusiasts – what we in this article define as “unsanctioned knowledge.” Because of its disso…
It's Personal
The practices of design, our experiences of their outcomes, as well as the narratives we create about them, are all deeply personal—and therefore subjective. Postmodern theory might have finally killed off the utopian ideal of history as an objective science, but it has arguably left a vacuum, with no comprehensive debate on the role of subjectivity in history writing and its potential challenges and benefits. As scholars we are trained to put as…
De-tooling Design History
(2013). De-tooling Design History: To What Purpose and for Whom Do We Write? Design and Culture: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 13-19
Designing Things
The Realpolitik of the Artificial
The 1960 establishment of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) represented a watershed to Norwegian consumer goods industry. Since the end of World War II domestic manufacturers had been thriving on a small but lucrative home market characterized by an unparalleled demand, effectively protected from foreign competition by strict import regulations and tariffs barriers. The onset of international free trade would dramatically change this mar…
Heresy and heroics
In the course of the 1950s, Italian industrial design underwent a period of professionalisation and rose to international fame under the banners of ‘Made in Italy’ and ‘ la linea italiana ’. Seen in retrospect, Italian design retained this position during the 1960s, with the onset of avant-garde ‘pop-design’ and ‘anti-design’. Yet this future development was by no means a given in the Italian design community at the turn of the decade. At this cr…
Form, function, fiction – translations of technology and design in product development
This article is a case study of the design and development of a Norwegian crockery series for institutional households – the 1962 Figgjo 3500 Hotel China. It investigates how this product represented a decisive break with the conventions of postwar Norwegian design and manufacture. The onset of international free trade meant export or die for the manufacturing industry. The elitist aestheticism so prevalent in the so‐called Scandinavian Design mo…
It's Personal
The practices of design, our experiences of their outcomes, as well as the narratives we create about them, are all deeply personal—and therefore subjective. Postmodern theory might have finally killed off the utopian ideal of history as an objective science, but it has arguably left a vacuum, with no comprehensive debate on the role of subjectivity in history writing and its potential challenges and benefits. As scholars we are trained to put as…
Form, function, fiction – translations of technology and design in product development
This article is a case study of the design and development of a Norwegian crockery series for institutional households – the 1962 Figgjo 3500 Hotel China. It investigates how this product represented a decisive break with the conventions of postwar Norwegian design and manufacture. The onset of international free trade meant export or die for the manufacturing industry. The elitist aestheticism so prevalent in the so‐called Scandinavian Design mo…
The Realpolitik of the Artificial
The 1960 establishment of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) represented a watershed to Norwegian consumer goods industry. Since the end of World War II domestic manufacturers had been thriving on a small but lucrative home market characterized by an unparalleled demand, effectively protected from foreign competition by strict import regulations and tariffs barriers. The onset of international free trade would dramatically change this mar…
Heresy and heroics
In the course of the 1950s, Italian industrial design underwent a period of professionalisation and rose to international fame under the banners of ‘Made in Italy’ and ‘ la linea italiana ’. Seen in retrospect, Italian design retained this position during the 1960s, with the onset of avant-garde ‘pop-design’ and ‘anti-design’. Yet this future development was by no means a given in the Italian design community at the turn of the decade. At this cr…
Designing Things
De-tooling Design History
(2013). De-tooling Design History: To What Purpose and for Whom Do We Write? Design and Culture: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 13-19
The Enthusiast's Eye
If design history research relies solely on institutionalized documentation and academic scholarship – that is, sanctioned knowledge – not only will its purview be limited to a very narrow segment of design culture, it will also lose out on a vast array of sources to valuable knowledge about our material environment produced by amateurs, collectors, and enthusiasts – what we in this article define as “unsanctioned knowledge.” Because of its disso…
It's Personal
The practices of design, our experiences of their outcomes, as well as the narratives we create about them, are all deeply personal—and therefore subjective. Postmodern theory might have finally killed off the utopian ideal of history as an objective science, but it has arguably left a vacuum, with no comprehensive debate on the role of subjectivity in history writing and its potential challenges and benefits. As scholars we are trained to put as…
Nordic Noir
The countries of Scandinavia are routinely touted as peaceful, harmonious societies. Correspondingly, Scandinavian design is promoted as democratic, humane, and friendly. However, the reality is that Scandinavian history is fraught with military conflict, and that not all Scandinavian design is benign. These two less advertised trajectories in Scandinavian culture converge on the region’s military arms industry, which for more than a century duti…
Eseh Notepad
Designing Worlds
The Culture of Nature in the History of Design
This chapter examines hydro-electric power schemes in the Scottish Highlands after World War Two. While this initiative was seen by modernising central planners as an urgent corrective to the long-standing decline of this ‘semi-derelict region’ there was equal pressure to maintain the artificial wilderness of the Highlands as a ‘cultural museum’, as a potent focus for various local and national communities of interest. \n \nThe design elements, s…
Culture of Nature in the History of Design
Dyp design i Ville vesten
Fjellklatring og filosofi er noe uventede, men betydningsfulle forbundsfeller i historien om økologisk design. Mot slutten av 1960-tallet utviklet en gruppe norske filosofer, som også var ivrige klatrere, en særegen måte å forstå relasjonene mellom mennesker og naturen for øvrig, samt mellom natur og kultur. Mest kjent av disse er Arne Næss, som lanserte begrepet dypøkologi. Dette begrepet har siden fått stor utbredelse, både politisk og akademis…
Eloge
Designing is Mining
The modern design profession is often considered a product of the Industrial Revolution's division of labor, which separated the ideation of artifacts from their execution. As part of the same legacy, where industrial manufacturing—as a system—was premised on the exploitation of extractive materials and fossil fuels, designers are natural-born miners. Designing entails crucial decisions on which and how much materials to mine, blast, drill, excav…
Computer Science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Architecture, Design, and Social History (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)