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Sorry folks, I too have fallen foul of the list setting that replies to the list rather than the individual. And I got the wrong person too. Oops. kind regards David ____________________________________ David Durling HonFDRS PhD http://durling.tel > On 16 Dec 2019, at 18:12, DAVID DURLING <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > I read your tribute to Victor on the phd-design list, and thought it a splendid personal view of the man. I would like to use your text as an obituary in Design Research News which will go out to over 9000 folks this week. > > Do I have your permission to re-use your text? I will of course credit you as the author. > > kind regards > David > > ____________________________________ > > David Durling HonFDRS PhD http://durling.tel > > > > > > > > > >> On 1 Dec 2019, at 17:24, João DeSouzaLeite <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> *Victor Margolin, a tribute* >> >> >> >> Yesterday, I heard from third parties about the passing of Victor. I think >> I can say we became friends to him a long time ago—Evelyn Grumach, my wife, >> and I. >> >> >> >> I met him a few decades ago at PUC-Rio, a Catholic University in Rio de >> Janeiro, in one of the first design conferences in Brazil. I invited him to >> have lunch with us at home, and then we went to visit a wonderful Brazilian >> folk art museum, Museu do Pontal, in Recreio dos Bandeirantes, after Barra >> da Tijuca, a far neighborhood in Rio. >> >> On the way, something happened that I’m never tired to retell. >> >> We left our house in Leblon by car towards the first tunnel, Dois Irmãos >> tunnel. The entrance to this first neighborhood, São Conrado, was a >> glorious one, the blue sky with flying humans on its colorful wings. >> >> >> >> How beautiful! Wonderful! he said. >> >> >> >> Towards Barra da Tijuca, where one can find a very strange and not so good, >> even awful architecture, we passed through another tunnel, and a strange >> silence settled in the car. And we kept passing by those buildings, always >> in silence. >> >> >> >> Some minutes have passed, and interjections began to be heard: >> >> Jesus! Oh god! Jesus Christ! >> >> And his question finally came: >> >> Don't you guys have a school of architecture here? >> >> >> >> * * * >> >> >> >> This was Victor Margolin, mindful of everything around him. From the >> activity of afro-descendants designers in Chicago about which he made a >> fine small-print record to urban art demonstrations in the Mexican >> community of Chicago, where he led us excited and delighted to provide us >> with such a stroll, eating in a sensational very small place, just a >> counter. Yet, he could turn his attention to kitsch demonstrations gathered >> at the University of Illinois Museum of Corn-temporary Art, recorded >> in *Culture >> is Everywhere*. Or even from the contemporary production of posters in the >> most hidden corners of the planet to political issues of design. >> >> A sensitive look, diverse in the objects of his admiration, Victor was a >> lover of jazz and blues. To him, I owe the discovery of great musicians. >> >> >> >> A few years ago, he suffered a fall in Seoul after receiving a lifetime >> achievement award, which caused him serious motor problems. Which made him >> very dismayed to move from his beautiful Chicago apartment, a large loft in >> an old building, a disused film industry warehouse, to Washington DC to >> make life easier. Still, the last time we spoke, he said he had found >> someone to help him finish the third volume of his quite impressive *World >> History of Design*. >> >> >> >> Blunt when necessary, his kindness always made conversation possible, an >> article so scarce today, that could cover from the delight of the movies he >> loved to technical questions of historiography. I remember, smiling to >> myself, hearing from him at a table in Carla Pernambuco's little bistro in >> Sao Paulo: >> >> how nice we can sit like this and talk about so many other subjects than >> design! >> >> >> >> Undoubtedly, all of us will lack his humor, his ability to instigate, and >> his almost ubiquitous presence in debates about design history. We will >> still miss our friend. >> >> >> >> >> >> João de Souza Leite | PhD, Professor Associado / Associate Professor | >> Coordenador/Head >> *Programa Pós-Graduação em Design / Design Graduate Program | PPDEsdi / >> Uerj* >> Coordenador TCC 2017 / Coordinator BFA 2017 >> Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial / Universidade do Estado do Rio de >> Janeiro >> >> School of Design / State University of Rio de Janeiro/ Brazil >> >> DRS Design Research Society, member >> >> http://uerj.academia.edu/JoãodeSouzaLeite >> >> Curriculum Lattes >> http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4781268E4 >> <http://uerj.academia.edu/Jo%C3%A3odeSouzaLeite> >> Rua do Passeio 80, Centro, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, 20021-290 >> >> Endereço/Home address >> Rua General Artigas 361 #903 Leblon 22441-140 Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brasil >> Telefone (55+21) 9.9768.8608 >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> >> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design >> Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> > Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design > Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------