Available now is the Journal of Design History’s special issue, entitled Do
It Yourself: Democracy and Design.
DIY has acted as a leveler of class – overcoming the social stigma of manual
labor, and permitting the working classes to engage in leisure activities
from which they were previously excluded.
This issue attempts to broaden existing work in the area by taking this
aspect of design democracy as its unifying theme, and expanding the notion
of DIY from the narrow perspective in which it is often held.
Do It Yourself: Democracy and Design is edited by Paul Atkinson, a designer
and design historian in the School of Art & Design at the University of
Huddersfield. He has published widely on design education and design
history, and is the curator at an exhibition also titled ‘Do It Yourself:
Democracy and Design.’
For more information on the exhibition and the special issue, please visit
http://jdh.oxfordjournals.org/.
An order form for Do It Yourself: Democracy and Design is also available on
the Web site.
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