Design, ca. 1965–2025: From “Cal ifornia Dreamin’” to “Designed in California”

Please considering submitting an abstract for a paper you would present during the College Art Association annual conference

(Los Angeles, Feb. 22-25, 2012). Details about the submission process follow this brief description of the panel.

Design, ca. 1965–2025: From “California Dreamin’” to “Designed in California” This panel begins where the Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition California Design, 1930–1965: Living in a Modern Way concludes, to reassess contemporary design. Did dreams of the 1960s give way to consumerism, redefined by images, experiences, and objects “designed in California”? What has happened in the years since the counterculture went mainstream? How has California fostered contemporary design? This session welcomes papers from all design fields as well as papers that challenge the nature of design beyond traditionally recognized borders. We encourage submissions that examine points of intersection where design, art, and experience meet, especially where social concerns emerge. Papers are especially welcome that unravel the complex design legacies of the counterculture, as are those that examine the ways that alternative cultures (from Finish Fetish to Light and Space) infused the relationship between design and culture. What can the Pacific Coast—epicenter of the Summer of Love and home to the expansive development of Apple Computers, Adobe Systems software, and Google informatics—contribute to a historically based conversation about the relationship between design, art, and contemporary culture?

Please submit abstracts to both James Housefield and Stuart Kendall: jeh@ucdavis.edu

All participants must be members in good standing of the College Art Association and follow the guidelines on the cover page of the Cal lfor Participation.

Contact:
stuartkendall@kanandesign.com