Disquieting Histories

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With reference to Saidiya Hartman’s notion of critical fabulation and Rolando Vázquez’s advocacy for practices of listening and relationality, the project wants to posit a range of ways in which the design historian, as the intended consumer of an archive, might critically intervene in its mechanisms of collection and description, and thereby participate in the collective effort to unsettle some of the normative assumptions that have accreted around the archive.
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Part One: Putting the History, Theory and Sociology of Visual Culture and Graphic Design in the University
Part Two: Disquieting Histories of the Graphic Design Archive
Part Three: Tools and Tactics