The impacts of non-aligned design

Predan, Barbara (author)

The central topic of this paper are the different postures adopted by Slovenian designers when interacting with the Global North and the Global South. In the first case, a desire for recognition and active involvement on the part of the so-called advanced Other was evident, while in the latter, as one who possesses and selflessly shares knowledge, the approval was clearly inherent to the role itself. Using the historical method, the text illuminates two examples that illustrate how, on the basis of the Yugoslav Non-Aligned Movement and workers’ self-management in the 1970s and 1980s, Yugoslav designers introduced to both the Global South and the Global North the idea of decentralisation and questioning the epistemic colonialism, as well as highlighting the role of participation and the importance of listening to voices from the so-called periphery of design. The selected examples further show that Slovenian (and Yugoslav) designers, following the orientations of the Yugoslav social order of the time, focused their international outlook on understanding and designing an integrated approach in a broader cultural, social and geographical space.

• Language: English
• Keywords: non-aligned, industrial design, Janja Lap, Saša J. Mächtig, ICSID
• Work type: Other
• Typology: 1.16 - Independent Scientific Component Part or a Chapter in a Monograph
• Organization: ALUO - Academy of Fine Arts and Design
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. [81]-109, 253-254, 262-263
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-149985
• UDC: 7.05
• DOI: 10.51938/9789612971427
• COBISS.SI-ID: 163483395
• Publication date in RUL: 12.09.2023

Record is a part of a monograph

• Title: The culture of the non-aligned : the clash of cultural and political narratives
• Editors: Barbara Predan, Daša Tepina
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: University of Ljubljana Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN: 978-961-297-143-4
• COBISS.SI-ID: 160144899

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Učinki neuvrščenega oblikovanja

Abstract

Prispevek se osredotoča na različni poziciji delovanja slovenskih oblikovalcev na globalnem severu in globalnem jugu. Pri prvem vidiku se je odražala želja po priznanju in aktivni vključitvi s strani tako imenovanega naprednega Drugega, pri drugem pa je bilo odobravanje več kot očitno položeno že v zibko z vnaprej priznano pozicijo tistega, ki znanje ima in ga nesebično deli. Besedilo s pomočjo historične metode osvetli izbrana primera, ki pojasnita, kako so jugoslovanski oblikovalci na temelju jugoslovanskega gibanja neuvrščenih in delavskega samoupravljanja v sedemdesetih in osemdesetih letih 20. stoletja tako na globalni jug kot na globalni sever pripeljali idejo decentralizacije in preizpraševanje epistemičnega kolonializma ter izpostavili vlogo participacije in pomen upoštevanja glasov s tako imenovane periferije oblikovanja. Izbrana primera še pokažeta, da so slovenski (in jugoslovanski) oblikovalci, sledeč usmeritvam takratne jugoslovanske družbene ureditve, svoj pogled v mednarodnem prostoru usmerjali v razumevanje in oblikovanje celostnega pristopa v širšem kulturnem, družbenem in geografskem prostoru.

• Keywords: industrijsko oblikovanje, neuvrščeni, umetnost, zgodovina oblikovanja, Slovenija, ICSID, povezovanje, Janja Lap, Saša J. Mächtig

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: J7-2606
• Name: Modeli in prakse mednarodne kulturne izmenjave Gibanja neuvrščenih: raziskovanje prostorsko-časovnih kulturnih dinamik