Arts and Crafts Movement
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Art Nouveau
An archive entry documenting Art Nouveau and its relationship to innovation practice.
Open record →Vienna Secession
An archive entry documenting Vienna Secession and its relationship to innovation practice.
Open record →Die Brücke
Die Brücke, (German: “The Bridge”) organization of German painters and printmakers that from 1905 to 1913 played a pivotal role in the development of Expressionism. The group was founded in 1905 in Germany by four architectural students in Dresden—Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, who gave the group its name, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
Open record →Deutscher Werkbund
Deutscher Werkbund, English German Association of Craftsmen, important organization of artists influential in its attempts to inspire good design and craftsmanship for mass-produced goods and architecture. The Werkbund, which was founded in Munich in 1907, was composed of artists, artisans, and architects who designed industrial, commercial, and household…
Open record →Cubism
Cubism, highly influential visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by the artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and…
Open record →The Eight
The Eight, group of American painters who exhibited together only once, in New York City in 1908, but who established one of the main currents in 20th-century American painting.
Open record →Futurism Movement Emerges
The Futurists emphasised experimentation, technology, speed and social transformation, helping shape later thinking about innovation and societal change.
Open record →Der Blaue Reiter
Der Blaue Reiter, (German: “The Blue Rider”) organization of artists based in Germany that contributed greatly to the development of abstract art. Neither a movement nor a school with a definite program, Der Blaue Reiter was a loosely knit organization of artists that organized group shows between 1911 and 1914.
Open record →Constructivism
Constructivism, Russian Konstruktivizm, Russian artistic and architectural movement that was first influenced by Cubism and Futurism and is generally considered to have been initiated in 1913 with the “painting reliefs”—abstract geometric constructions—of Vladimir Tatlin.
Open record →Dada
Dada, nihilistic and antiaesthetic movement in the arts that flourished primarily in Zürich, Switzerland; New York City; Berlin, Cologne, and Hannover, Germany; and Paris in the early 20th century.
Open record →De Stijl
De Stijl, (Dutch: “The Style”) group of Dutch artists in Amsterdam in 1917, including the painters Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, and Vilmos Huszár, the architect Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, and the poet A. Kok; other early associates of De Stijl were Bart van der Leck, Georges Vantongerloo, Jan Wils, and Robert van’t Hoff. Its members, working in an…
Open record →Bauhaus Founded
Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. The school’s integration of art, craft and technology profoundly influenced modern design education and later human-centred approaches to design practice.
Open record →Art Deco
Art Deco, also called style moderne, movement in the decorative arts and architecture that originated in the 1920s and developed into a major style in western Europe and the United States during the 1930s.
Open record →Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism, broad movement in American painting that began in the late 1940s and became a dominant trend in Western painting during the 1950s. The most prominent American Abstract Expressionist painters were Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Mark Rothko.
Open record →Eames Office Founded
Charles and Ray Eames established a practice blending design, experimentation, communication and learning that would influence generations of designers.
Open record →Pop Art
Pop art, art in which commonplace objects (such as comic strips, soup cans, road signs, and hamburgers) were used as subject matter and were often physically incorporated into the work. The Pop art movement was largely a British and American cultural phenomenon of the late 1950s and the ’60s and was named by the art critic Lawrence Alloway in reference to…
Open record →The Fluxus Reader by Ken Friedman
Fluxus began in the 1950s as a loose, international community of artists, architects, composers and designers. By the 1960s, Fluxus had become a laboratory of ideas and an arena for artistic experimentation in Europe, Asia and the United States. Described as ‘the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s’, Fluxus has challenged conventional…
Open record →Bruce Archer offers humanities, science and design as being equal points of a triad of disciplines
Bruce Archer published a series of Articles in Design magazine in the 1960s, reflecting his thinking on the multiple factors in design and the need to approach them in a methodical way. This was under the third editorship of Design, that of John E Blake. Archer and his contemporaries were heavily influenced by the scientific practices embedded in Operatio…
Open record →Ken Friedman holds a research appointment at The Danish Design School
Ken Friedman is also a practicing artist and designer active in the international laboratory known as Fluxus. He had his first solo exhibition in New York in 1966. His work is represented in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Hood Museum of…
Open record →Stanford d.school Established
The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, known as the d.school, was founded at Stanford University. It helped popularise human-centred design thinking among students, entrepreneurs and organisations worldwide.
Open record →Bernard Roth - d.school design thinking model
Considered an expert and interviewed by Dr Maria Camacho in completion of her PhD thesis titled: An Integrative Model of Design Thinking
Open record →Norbert Wiener Publishes Cybernetics
Cybernetics introduced influential ideas about feedback, learning, communication and self-regulating systems that closely relate to iterative design and systems practice.
Open record →Cybernetics — Norbert Wiener
Introduced feedback loops and self-regulating systems.
Open record →Stafford Beer Develops Management Cybernetics
Beer applies systems and cybernetic thinking to organisational management and decision making.
Open record →Peter Senge Publishes The Fifth Discipline
Senge presented systems thinking as a core discipline of learning organisations, influencing business, education and approaches to organisational change.
Open record →The Fifth Discipline — Peter Senge
Popularised organisational learning and systems thinking.
Open record →The Human Relations Movement Expands
Management research increasingly recognised human behaviour, motivation, relationships and group dynamics as central to organisational performance.
Open record →Jeanne Liedtka joins Darden School of Business
A strategist and professor of business particularly known for her work on strategic thinking, design thinking and organic growth.
Open record →Ken Friedman creates strategic design course at Oslo Business School
Ken Friedman is Research Professor and until recently the Dean of the Faculty of Design at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He works at the intersection of three fields: design, management, and art. Friedman works with theory construction and research methodology for design. He also works with design process and design thinking…
Open record →Ken Friedman - Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design at the Norwegian School of Management
Ken Friedman has done research in philosophy of design, doctoral education in design, knowledge management, and philosophy of science. He worked with national design policy in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Wales, and state design policy in Victoria, Australia. He is active in developing international research networks and conferences for the design rese…
Open record →Service Design Begins Emerging as a Discipline
Design practice increasingly expanded beyond physical products to consider services, customer journeys, interactions and the systems that support experiences.
Open record →The Civil Rights Movement Inspires Participatory Approaches
Growing attention to inclusion and representation later influences participatory design and co-creation methods.
Open record →Participatory Design Emerges in Scandinavia
Participatory design grew from early Scandinavian projects that involved workers directly in the design of workplace technologies and systems. These collaborations helped establish foundations for co-design and stakeholder engagement.
Open record →Social Innovation Design Gains Momentum
Design methods begin addressing complex societal challenges.
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