Design and Heritage

Grace Lees-Maffei is Professor of Design History and Programme Director for DHeritage, the Professional Doctorate in Heritage, at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History. She researches the mediation of design, design discourse, domesticity, national identity and globalization in design and the interplay of design and heritage. Rebecca Houze is Professor of Art and Design History at Northern Illinois University, USA and General Editor of the Bloomsbury Design Library. Her research examines cultures of collection and display in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She writes about the built environment in Europe and North America with a focus on women designers, international exhibitions, and national parks.

Introduction: Design (History) and Heritage (Studies): An Introduction

Grace Lees-Maffei

Part I. Monuments and Memorials






Wellington Monument and the Uses of Heritage: Changing Purpose, New Meanings, Multiple Identities
Barbara Wood




Marginalised Heritage and Invisible History: The Silvertown War Memorial
Louise Purbrick




The India-Pakistan Border as Site for the Production of National Identity: Heritage by Design
Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan

Part II. Landscape, Place and Visitor Experience Design




Indigenous Living [‘Heritage’] Designing Tenets: Kulin ways of Singing, Designing, Nurturing and Nourishing Terrains of Identity
Mandy Nicholson and David S. Jones




Hopi House and the Design of Heritage at Grand Canyon National Park
Rebecca Houze




The Design Heritage of the Wintergardens at the Auckland Domain: Spectacular Enchantment
Jacqueline Naismith




Toward a Typology of Designed Heritage in Southeast Ohio: Mound, Marker, Mine
Samuel Dodd



Part III. Craft and Industrial Design




Dürer, Goethe, and the Poetics of Richard Riemerschmid's Modern Wooden Furniture
Freyja Hartzell




Royal Copenhagen vs. Porsgrund: Negotiating Ceramic Design Heritage in the Age of Copyright
Peder Valle




Lifestyle Branding, Nostalgia, and Hong Kong’s Contested Heritage
Daniel J. Huppatz



Part IV. Textiles and Dress




Reclaiming Heritage Narratives: Reweaving the Story of a Royal Wedding Dress
Zoë Hendon




A Canadian Maple Leaf Quilt: Design History and Natural Heritage
Vanessa Nicholas




Design, Politics, and Croatian Folk Heritage: Gingerbread and Lace
Heidi Cook

Part V. Graphic Design, Information Design and Typography




South African Heritage Postcards: The Same Old Story?
Jeanne van Eeden




Modernist Graphics, New Typography, and the Design of Identity in the First Czechoslovak Republic
Benjamin Benus




Typography and Lettering as Design Heritage in Brazil
Priscila Farias

Part VI. Digitisation and Online User Experience Design




Recontextualizing Burmese Colonial Photographs as Contemporary Fashion Accessories at Yangoods: ‘To Revitalize Myanmar’s Heritage’
Carmín Berchiolly




Designing Absence at the Anne Frank House Museum, Amsterdam, and the Secret Annex Online: Exhibition Design, Virtual Reality and Historic Preservation

Sarah Lichtman