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DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, design historian Eric Anderson presents new r
 esearch based on unpublished archival documents from the Hochschule für Ge
 staltung Ulm\, dating to the 1960s and concerned with design for developme
 nt in the Third World. The materials include diploma projects on developme
 nt themes by Ulm students from India\, Chile\, Egypt\, and Liberia\, as we
 ll as reports of faculty consulting projects for the government of post-in
 dependence India. This little-studied body of work illustrates an approach
  to design for development that the West German school taught to its inter
 national student body. Ulm’s development pedagogy emphasized systems-based
  design methods applied to economic and social programs for poverty allevi
 ation and nation-building. Existing scholarship on the short-lived but end
 uringly influential school has focused on Ulm’s role in remaking postwar G
 erman culture in the political context of Western alliances\, but Anderson
  will draw attention to Ulm’s status as a global center for development ed
 ucation attuned to the politics of the Third World.A Modern Design History
  Lecture.Eric Anderson is professor and chair of the theory and history of
  art and design department at Rhode Island School of Design. As a historia
 n of modern design his research interests include interiors and domesticit
 y\, exhibitions and media\, the cultural history of Vienna and psychoanaly
 sis\, and the global history of modernism. He recently completed a manuscr
 ipt titled The Chromatic Unconscious\, on Sigmund Freud and Viennese desig
 n before 1900\, and is currently beginning a new project\, Ulm in the Worl
 d\, on the West German school’s transnational networks\, development pedag
 ogy\, and geopolitical engagements in the 1960s.Object LabsAt BGC\, we use
  an object-centered approach to advance the study of the decorative arts\,
  design history\, and material culture. Join our student educators before 
 select public events to learn about some of the objects in BGC’s Study Col
 lection. Each week we will showcase three objects carefully selected from 
 the collection\, which includes over 4\,000 objects in a variety of media.
 October 22 and 29\; November 5\, 12\, and 19\; December 338 West 86th Stre
 et\, 5–6 pmFounded in 2011\, the BGC Study Collection supports student res
 earch by providing opportunities for hands-on close examination of objects
 . Learn more about the BGC Study Collection here.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Ulm’s Development Pedagogy
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