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    The intellectual transformation of modern design discourses in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR)

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    Authors
    Saad, Qassim
    Date
    2020
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Saad, Q. 2020. The intellectual transformation of modern design discourses in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). In: Pivot 2020; Pluriversal Design SIG, 4th Jun 2020, Tulane University-USA.
    Source Title
    PIVOT 2020 DESIGNING A WORLD OF MANY CENTERS
    Source Conference
    Pivot 2020; Pluriversal Design SIG
    DOI
    10.21606/pluriversal.2020.014
    Additional URLs
    https://taylor.tulane.edu/pivot/
    ISBN
    978-1-912294-42-8
    Faculty
    Faculty of Humanities
    School
    School of Design and the Built Environment
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81745
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This study will offer an overview of applied discourses of design in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), including Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. Since the 1940s, these countries have been known for their pioneering statues, creative engagements, and influence on shaping, resourcing, and sustaining the emergent project of modernity in the EMR. Studies of these countries’ contemporary design discourses are underdeveloped, with extremely limited studies addressing their context and practices. This study will survey identical phases throughout the contemporary history of these countries, exploring and critically reviewing key themes in their regional sociopolitical rhetoric since the 1950s. The study demonstrates the need to utilise design discourses to empower regional societies currently facing unrest. The study identified four thematic periods reflecting the influence of regional sociopolitical rhetoric: (1) the colonisation era, articulating a sociocultural perspective concerning craftmaking and craftsmanship; (2) postcolonisation and the emergence of modernity, with design emerging as a cultural manifestation that enhances regional socioeconomic development; (3) the rise of the national state, with design as a sociopolitical manifestation utilised to reinforcing identity and local traditions; (4) expansion of autocracy and current discord, with the emergence of social design. These thematic periods are explored through selected examples from across the EMR.

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