Beyond Nostalgia: Designing for Change

Update: 2018-10-18

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The Featherston Contour chair is an icon of mid-century modernist nostalgia as copies flood the market and the original chairs fetch exorbitant prices at auction. Yet its designer, Grant Featherston, had little time for nostalgia. As he saw it, the important question facing architects and designers was how to live in a post industrialised, technological and urbanised world. He fought tirelessly to make design for social need as important as design for financial profit. Hosted by the Heide Museum of Modern Art a panel of design experts will explore key social issues in contemporary design practice before taking questions from the audience. Presented on Saturday 8 September 2018.

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Beyond Nostalgia: Designing for Change

Nanette Carter, Denise Whitehouse, Jeremy McLeod, Mary Featherston, Ewan McEoin

Beyond Nostalgia: Designing for Change