Penny Sparke
Biographic Data
| ID | 641814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Penny Sparke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Penny |
| FAMILY NAME | Sparke |
| SIGNATURE | SPARKE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal College of Art |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9723-2876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An Introduction to Design and Culture
Redefining identities
At home
Domestic interiors are invested with a multitude of meanings; political, economic, social, cultural, psycho- logical, and ecological among them. Between 2020 and 2022, the height of the Covid pandemic in Europe, the authors co-curated an exhibition—At Home: Panoramas de nos Vies Domestiques—for the 2022 St Etienne Design Biennale. The design exhibition explored those meanings, past, present, and future, and addressed the key themes challenging ou…
Complex Interior Spaces in London, 1850–1930
This introductory essay highlights the key themes that appear in the four essays that make up the special issue: ‘Complex Interior Spaces in London, 1850–1930’, which focuses on street markets, railway stations, winter gardens and people's palaces, and a hospital. Those themes include complexity and multifunctionality; nodes and networks; modernity; materiality and spatiality; the public/private spheres; and user experience. The fact that the ess…
An Introduction to Design and Culture
An Introduction to Design and Culture provides a comprehensive guide to the changing relationships between design and culture from 1900 to the present day with an emphasis on five main themes: Design and consumption Design and technology The design profession Design theory Design and identities. This fourth edition extends the traditional definition of design as covering product design, furniture design, interior design, fashion design and graphi…
Introduction to Design and Culture
Redefining identities
A reinforcement of national identity for Britain’s population was achieved through the creation of a sense of cohesion and optimism that was displayed at Britain’s 1951 Festival of Britain. The very concept of Scandinavian design, an amalgamation of the modern design traditions of Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland, was a strategic alliance formed for the purposes of trade and public relations outside the countries concerned. The emerge…
An Introduction to Design and Culture
"This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design.New for this edition is a chapter which covers key changes in design culture. Design culture has changed dramatically in the 21st century, the designer-hero is now much less in evidence and design has become much more interdisciplinary. Drawing on a wealth of mass-pr…
Postmodernism
(2013). Postmodernism: The Substance of Style, 1970–1990. Design and Culture: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 123-125
The Truman Show , Peter Weir (1998)
Mobility History from a Design Historian's Perspective
Design
Candace Wheeler
To date, Candace Wheeler has been a somewhat insubstantial presence hovering over the changes in American design thinking during the last three decades of the nineteenth century, influencing much that went on but failing to emerge as flesh and blood. While we know she designed textiles, worked with Louis Comfort Tiffany, encouraged women to establish professional careers as homeworkers in the artistic industries, and created the interior of the W…
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture
This collection of essays provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Contributions focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, the growth of a national language, social and political cultures, the role of intellectuals, the Church, the left, feminism, the separatist movements, organised crime, literature, art, design, fashi…
Imagining Consumers
In an attempt to complete the picture of the circular process of production/consumption/production in the life of manufactured goods, Regina Lee Blaszczyk's Imagining Consumers focuses on what the author considers to be a missing element in this process: "the strategic intersection of design practice, consumer taste and changing demand" (p. ix). This ambition has stimulated a fascinating account of the sales strategies of a group of American manu…
Nature, Craft, Domesticity, and the Culture of Consumption
This article sets out to outline the way in which existing narratives dealing with the development of modern design in post-1945 Italy have ignored those aspects of the story which do not concur with a characterization of that phenomenon that relies on the concepts of rationality, mass production and the impact of new materials. By focusing on and elaborating a number of ‘other’ themes—namely those of nature, craft, domesticity and the culture of…
The Design Encyclopedia
An Introduction to Design and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Nature, Craft, Domesticity, and the Culture of Consumption
This article sets out to outline the way in which existing narratives dealing with the development of modern design in post-1945 Italy have ignored those aspects of the story which do not concur with a characterization of that phenomenon that relies on the concepts of rationality, mass production and the impact of new materials. By focusing on and elaborating a number of ‘other’ themes—namely those of nature, craft, domesticity and the culture of…
An Introduction to Design and Culture in the Twentieth Century
The Design Encyclopedia
Nature, Craft, Domesticity, and the Culture of Consumption
This article sets out to outline the way in which existing narratives dealing with the development of modern design in post-1945 Italy have ignored those aspects of the story which do not concur with a characterization of that phenomenon that relies on the concepts of rationality, mass production and the impact of new materials. By focusing on and elaborating a number of ‘other’ themes—namely those of nature, craft, domesticity and the culture of…
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture
This collection of essays provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Contributions focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, the growth of a national language, social and political cultures, the role of intellectuals, the Church, the left, feminism, the separatist movements, organised crime, literature, art, design, fashi…
Imagining Consumers
In an attempt to complete the picture of the circular process of production/consumption/production in the life of manufactured goods, Regina Lee Blaszczyk's Imagining Consumers focuses on what the author considers to be a missing element in this process: "the strategic intersection of design practice, consumer taste and changing demand" (p. ix). This ambition has stimulated a fascinating account of the sales strategies of a group of American manu…
Candace Wheeler
To date, Candace Wheeler has been a somewhat insubstantial presence hovering over the changes in American design thinking during the last three decades of the nineteenth century, influencing much that went on but failing to emerge as flesh and blood. While we know she designed textiles, worked with Louis Comfort Tiffany, encouraged women to establish professional careers as homeworkers in the artistic industries, and created the interior of the W…
Design
Mobility History from a Design Historian's Perspective
The Truman Show , Peter Weir (1998)
An Introduction to Design and Culture
"This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design.New for this edition is a chapter which covers key changes in design culture. Design culture has changed dramatically in the 21st century, the designer-hero is now much less in evidence and design has become much more interdisciplinary. Drawing on a wealth of mass-pr…
Postmodernism
(2013). Postmodernism: The Substance of Style, 1970–1990. Design and Culture: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 123-125
An Introduction to Design and Culture
An Introduction to Design and Culture provides a comprehensive guide to the changing relationships between design and culture from 1900 to the present day with an emphasis on five main themes: Design and consumption Design and technology The design profession Design theory Design and identities. This fourth edition extends the traditional definition of design as covering product design, furniture design, interior design, fashion design and graphi…
Introduction to Design and Culture
Redefining identities
A reinforcement of national identity for Britain’s population was achieved through the creation of a sense of cohesion and optimism that was displayed at Britain’s 1951 Festival of Britain. The very concept of Scandinavian design, an amalgamation of the modern design traditions of Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland, was a strategic alliance formed for the purposes of trade and public relations outside the countries concerned. The emerge…
Complex Interior Spaces in London, 1850–1930
This introductory essay highlights the key themes that appear in the four essays that make up the special issue: ‘Complex Interior Spaces in London, 1850–1930’, which focuses on street markets, railway stations, winter gardens and people's palaces, and a hospital. Those themes include complexity and multifunctionality; nodes and networks; modernity; materiality and spatiality; the public/private spheres; and user experience. The fact that the ess…
At home
Domestic interiors are invested with a multitude of meanings; political, economic, social, cultural, psycho- logical, and ecological among them. Between 2020 and 2022, the height of the Covid pandemic in Europe, the authors co-curated an exhibition—At Home: Panoramas de nos Vies Domestiques—for the 2022 St Etienne Design Biennale. The design exhibition explored those meanings, past, present, and future, and addressed the key themes challenging ou…
An Introduction to Design and Culture
Redefining identities
Art (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (4 works)