Design Stories: New Perspectives on a Collection
About this book
Design Stories: New Perspectives on a Collection, edited by Johanna Agerman Ross and published by Arvinius + Orfeus in 2024, accompanies a new permanent exhibition at Gothenburg's Röhsska Museum. The 376-page English paperback gathers essays, conversations, and images that treat design not only as styling for the market but as a social practice that can protest, comment, and challenge power. It asks how museums collect and narrate designed objects, and whose stories those collections tell.
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For students, the book is a critical companion to design history rather than a style survey. It is useful for discussing collecting, curating, and the politics of the museum, and for testing how objects in a collection can be reread. On a university reading list it supports design theory, museum studies, and seminars on design's role in society.
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