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Exhibitions by Susan Yelavich

Deep Surface: Contemporary Ornament and Pattern celebrates the renaissance of complexity and narr... more Deep Surface: Contemporary Ornament and Pattern celebrates the renaissance of complexity and narrative form in contemporary design that has occurred over the last 15 years. The breadth of the work—drawn from
the fields of graphic design, industrial design, fashion, furnishings, architecture, and digital media—speaks to the
pervasiveness and relevance of pattern and ornament today. Its hybrid languages are the aesthetic equivalent of the fastpaced and complex exchanges of our
contemporary world. Each of the designers in Deep Surface approaches ornament and pattern with a deep sense of purpose and through a particular point of view. Their perspectives and approaches are revealed in the exhibition’s six themes: Amplification, The Everyday, Kit-of-Parts, Inheritances, Elaboration, and Fantasy.

Papers by Susan Yelavich

Journal of Design History, 2021

This paper argues that literature is a fertile source of insight for design research and scholars... more This paper argues that literature is a fertile source of insight for design research and scholarship—in particular, those stories that explore the mutuality of the sentient and insentient, a mutuality pointing to a new kind of politics that respects the reciprocity of relations between humans and their environment. Authors such as Charles D'Ambrosio, Orhan Pamuk, Darryl Pinckney, and W.G. Sebald are discussed for the ways in which they reposition objects of design (informal and formal) as characters. Chairs, carpets, buildings, manuscripts, and sundry other objects act as protagonists and antagonists that exceed their intimate relations to individuals and become actors in the larger theater of human affairs. By situating things in the webs of human actions and beliefs, these works of literature have the capacity provoke the re-cognition of the activity and outcomes of designing in shaping the social and political.

Board of International Research in Design

Introduction * Houses * Apartments * Lofts * Offices * Civic Spaces * Religious Spaces * Cultural... more Introduction * Houses * Apartments * Lofts * Offices * Civic Spaces * Religious Spaces * Cultural Spaces * Retail * Restaurants * Hotels * Therapeutic Spaces * Notes * Selected Bibliography * Index

Thinking Design Through Literature, 2019

Design as Future-Making, 2014

Acknowledgements Foreword, Arjun Appadurai, New York University, USA Introduction: Design as Futu... more Acknowledgements Foreword, Arjun Appadurai, New York University, USA Introduction: Design as Future-Making, Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design, USA Section I. Crafting Capacities Introduction, Barbara Adams, The New School for Social Research, USA Thinking Differently about Life: Design, Biomedicine and "Negative Capability", Elio Caccavale, Glasgow School of Art, UK and Tom Shakespeare, University of East Anglia Medical School, UK Unmapping, Sean Donahue, Research-Centered Design, USA Fashion Hacking, Otto von Busch, Parsons The New School for Design, USA Digital Crafting and the Challenge to Material Practices, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Denmark Petrified Curtains, Animate Architextiles, Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design, USA Section II. Shifting Geographies Introduction, Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design, USA Urban Ecologies: Quatre systemes de conception pour la fabrication de "la Cite", William Morrish, Parsons The New School of Design, USA Architecture of Informality, Ivan Kucina, University of Belgrade, Serbia The Trans/Local Geography of Olympic Dissent: Activism, Design, Affect, Jilly Traganou, Parsons The New School for Design, USA and Grace Vetrocq Tuttle, communication design specialist, USA Garments as Agents of Change: Lucia Cuba, Hazel Clark, Parsons The New School for Design, USA Returning Duchamp's Urinal to the Bathroom? On the Reconnection of Artistic Experimentation, Social Responsibility and Institutional Transformation, Teddy Cruz, University of California, San Diego, USA Sze Tsung Leong and Susan Yelavich Interview, Sze Tsung Leong, artist, USA Section III. Up-ending Systems Introduction, Barbara Adams, The New School for Social Research, USA Designing Time, Anna Barbara, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy Reasons to Be Cheerful, 1, 2, 3 ... (Or Why the Artificial May Yet Save Us), Clive Dilnot, Parsons The New School for Design, USA Design Away, Cameron Tonkinwise, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Pace Layers, Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor and critic, USA Forms of Space and Time, Anna Barbara, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy "When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war": Systemic Complexity and the Irregularities of Scale, Jamer Hunt, Parsons The New School, USA Afterword: Tim Marshall, The New School, USA Endnotes Bibliography Contributor Biographies

The National Design Museum in New York is one of the largest repositories of design in the world,... more The National Design Museum in New York is one of the largest repositories of design in the world, with a collection of nearly a quarter of a million objects such as typewriters, tea pots, architectural renderings, lace, wallpaper sample books and posters. This celebration of the Museum's 100th anniversary, draws on its experience of a century of collecting, documenting and studying design. It also displays thousands of the Museum's most prized exhibits. The collection is divided into four curatorial areas: applied arts and industrial design, textiles, wall coverings and drawings and prints, each overseen by a curatorial team responsible for its care, documentation and interpretation. Each section is accompanied by explanatory notes from the Museum's curatorial team.