Reading list

Scandinavian Design

Skandinavisk design

Course
KVL192
First cycle
7.5 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Spring semester 2025 (2025-01-20)
Decision date
2024-11-23

Ashby, Charlotte (2017) Modernism in Scandinavia, Art, Architecture and Design, Bloomsbury Visual Arts: https://www-bloomsburycollections-com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/monograph?docid=b-9781474224345

Björk, Christian (2022) The Myth of “Democratic Design” and Why the Concept Never Should Be Used Again. Parole Compendiums https://www.parole.cc/compendiums/design-dna/the-myth-of-democratic-design-and-why-the-concept-never-should-be-used-again/

von Bonsdorff, Anna-Maria (2024) "Total Work of Art. A Nordic Aesthetic and Way of Life", In Nordic art & way of life: art world, artists, themes, eds. Pettersson, Susanna & von Bonsdorff, Anna-Maria, Mercatorfonds, Brussels, p. 137-153.

Brunnström, Lasse (2018) Swedish design: a history. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts. 250 p.

Duncan, Carol (1995) ‘The Art Museum as Ritual’. In Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums. Routledge, London. p. 7-20.

Fallan, Kjetil (2023)w “The way north” in Fallan, Kjetil, et al. Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960-1980. 1st ed., New York: Routledge.

Göransdotter, M. and Redström, J. (2018) ‘Design Methods and Critical Historiography: An Example from Swedish User-Centered Design’, Design issues, 34(2), pp. 20–30.

Halén, Widar & Wickman, Kerstin (eds.) (2006) Scandinavian design beyond the myth: fifty years of design from the Nordic countries, Stockholm: Arvinius/Form.

Hansen, P., (2006) Networks, Narratives, and New Markets: The Rise and Decline of Danish Modern Furniture Design, 1930-1970. Business History Review, 80(3): 449-483. 35 p.

Kristoffersson, Sara (2014) Design by IKEA: a cultural history. London: Bloomsbury. E-book. 150 p.

Pallasmaa, Juhani (2014) ‘Museum as an Embodied Experience’. In The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space. ed. Levent, Nina and Pascual-Leone, Alvaro, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham. p. 205-212

Reference literature

Ashby, Charlotte (2017) Modernism in Scandinavia. Art, Architecture and Design, Bloomsbury. (Available as e-book via the University Library).

Fiell, Charlotte & Fiell, Peter (2013). Scandinavian design. [New ed.] Köln: Taschen. 700 p.