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	Victor Papanek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Papanek was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1927.
		Victor Papanek taught at the University of Toronto, the Rhode Island School of Design, Purdue University, the California Institute of the Arts (where he was dean), and other places in North America.
		Papanek received numerous awards, including a Distinguished Designer fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_Papanek (417 words)

	Victor Papanek,
		Papanek investigates the notion of dwelling from several angles: the sensory body and its relationship to space, the dehumanising effects of modern urban practice, and the sensual, social and ecological importance of vernacular architecture.
		Papanek over-estimates the power of design in shaping the social relations of a society and provides little detail of how political power must be sought and incorporated into the societal changes he wishes to see.
		Papanek speaks of the need to establish a link between design and social justice but, he provides little detail of how this may be realistically developed in a global economy with an ever-increasing geographical division of labour.
	www.co-design.co.uk /victor.htm (3161 words)

	Victor Papanek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Papanek was born in Vienna, Austria, and went to public school in England.
		Papanek was dean of the school of design at the California Institute of Arts and headed the design departments at several schools, including the Kansas City Art Institute, where he was chairman from 1976 to 1981.
		Papanek traveled around the world giving lecture about his ideas for ecologically sound design and designs to serve the poor, the disabled and the elderly.
	www.solutioneers.net /solutioneering/papanek.html (473 words)

	Victor Papanek
		R.J.S. A capacity audience last year for Victor Papanek's free public lecture at the Auckland City Art Gallery (Papanek passed through Auckland last August) demonstrated not only an interest in Papanek's philosophy of art for and by the people, but also that New Zealanders are concerned about their local environment.
		Papanek's twin-screen slide presentation and too-brief question and answer session afterwards served rather to raise some large queries and doubts than to offer any indications of direction.
		Implicit in Papanek's ideology is a whole set of value judgements: that public art is more desirable than private art; that group art is more relevant than individual art; that the product of art is more important than the activity; that consensus evaluation is more appropriate than objective standards, and so on.
	www.art-newzealand.com /Issues1to40/papanek.htm (1101 words)

	Review Papanek 1984 by Tanaka
		Papanek also says designers should remember where to start: "The Industrial Designer began by eliminating excess decoration, but his real job began when he insisted on dissecting the product, seeing what made it tick, and devising means of making it tick better - then making it look better.
		However, Papanek's ideas are unique; all the things around us have been created by designers; designers' responsibility would go far deeper than just "beauty" at the market level and "consumer satisfaction"; there should be always the social and moral responsibilities of the designer.
		Papanek however admitted that the skills they teach are too often related to processes and working methods of an age just coming to a close, and that the philosophy offered at school was an equal mixture of the kind of self-expressive bohemian individualism in a profit-oriented, brutal commercialism.
	www.ilt.columbia.edu /academic/classes/TU4000/Reviews/Papan84_Tan.html (1046 words)

	ICIS Resources: Inspirations: Victor Papanek
		Victor Papanek was an internationally renown designer, professor and mentor; a pioneering advocate of a more human, ecologically, and ethically centred design.
		Born in Vienna, Austria, Papanek studied design and architecture at the Cooper Union in New York, and undertook post-graduate studies in design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		Most of Papanek's work was in product design, but he also taught or chaired at universities in Canada, the US, Denmark, Sweden and the UK.
	www.iciscenter.org /html/4_resources/inspiration01.htm (323 words)

	Treehugger: Victor Papanek - a rebel with a cause
		Treehugger: Victor Papanek - a rebel with a cause
		Victor Papanek - a rebel with a cause
		And no, not the thoughts of current ecodesign hero, William McDonough, but those of Victor Papanek, who wrote the book and those words, a worrying 34 years ago.
	www.treehugger.com /files/2005/01/victor_papanek.php (481 words)

	Metropolis Perspective: Papanek's Ghost
		Victor Papanek led the Design for Need movement of the 1970s, arguing that designers should focus on creating products that meet the basic needs of all people rather than the desires of the affluent minority.
		I n 1972 designer and educator Victor Papanek published Design for the Real World, in which he advocated that all design be anchored by ecology and ethics.
		Papanek's passing should serve as a reminder to industrial designers--and designers of all stripes--that we are still doing too little.
	www.metropolismag.com /html/content_0798/jl98per.htm (912 words)

	Design for the Real World : Human Ecology and Social Change
		Papanek was widely admired for his advocacy of socially responsible design.
		Papanek is survived by his former wife, Harlanne Herdman, and two daughters, Nicolette Papanek and Jennifer Satu Papanek.
		Papanek's predictions or ideals are happening: In ecology, social work, and ethics.
	www.uni-protokolle.de /buecher/isbn/0897331532 (788 words)

	IDSA Design History Section - Victor Papanek
		Papanek for his 35 years of contributions to the design profession.
		Designer, anthropologist, writer, and teacher Papanek was born in Vienna, Austria and arrived in the US in 1932.
		From 1981, Professor Papanek taught architecture and design at the University of Kansas.
	www.idsa.org /whatsnew/sections/dh/personal_rec_awards/1999_Papanek.html (183 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Victor Papanek was one of those people who did.
		But Papanek and his team of students went to classes, left their preconceived notions at the door and watched young children in school.
		But perhaps that is the fate of people like Victor Papanek, who thought that life and society should be fit to human scale.
	www.dailynews.net /ottawa/herald_opinion/papanek.html (736 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Green Imperative: Natural Design for the Real World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When designer Papanek lays down precepts for design in the 21st century or questions a professional code of ethics, he is clearly addressing other designers and architects.
		While Papanek is all for fun in design, he dismisses such senseless elements as add-ons that don't really improve performance (the annoying car voice intoning "your door is ajar") or miniaturization that ignores the limits of the human body.
		Still, Papanek is committed to his subject and becomes almost poetic when discussing Inuit and Balinese design or the necessity of integrating the ephemeral and the permanent.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0500278466?v=glance (1174 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Papanek notes the many cultural and psychological blocks we have created for ourselves when it comes to ecological design, but also illustrates how we can overcome these blocks with methods such as bisociation, first proposed by Arthur Koestler.
		Papanek challenges the reader to explore new avenues, not continue to follow the status quo, which only results in creative dead-ends.
		Papanek encourages radical thinking in design, and most of the topics in the book are easily translated to architecture.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0897331532?v=glance (1592 words)

	First Aid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The late Victor Papanek was a pioneer of social responsibility in design, and he continues to be incredibly influential.
		He was a vocal promoter of a multi-disciplinary approach to design, and felt that design disciplines and universities had become too compartmentalized and were restricting the potential for more effective and creative design interventions.
		One of his most remarkable projects is a transistor radio made from tin cans that was designed to be produced cheaply in developing countries.
	www.firstaid-design.org /1_cs003.html (262 words)

	Victor Papanek Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography @ Local Color Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Information about Victor Papanek - Designer and educator Victor Papanek was a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products and tools.
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	www.somethingpersonal.com /encyclopedia/Victor_Papanek (613 words)

	Design that Matters: Notes, Feb 16
		Papanek feels that industrial designers are working on trivial issues and themes that are typically geared to lifestyles of developed world and not the hard problems in the developing world or even poor/rural communities here.
		Papanek has basic problems with the concept of patents and copyrights.
		Papanek suggest that one needs to question the entire process of “mail delivery” not just the box to come up with broader design improvements.
	web.media.mit.edu /~nitin/thinkcycle/notes/dtm_feb16.html (1331 words)

	Cubitt Artists
		The works will be housed within an exhibition structure designed by Stephan Rabeck (O) and Florian Pumhösl (O), which is based on original functionalist furniture designs from Victor Papanek and James Hennessey's 1973 publication Nomadic Furniture.
		Victor Papanek, a pioneer in ecological, environmental and ethical design, published Nomadic Furniture as a design manual that aspired to bring his ideas into everyday use by introducing an ethos of recycling, flexibility and DIY.
		The designs that Rabeck and Pumhösl have adapted for this exhibition are based on Papanek and Hennessey's 'Living Cubes' - simple wooden frameworks for nomadic rooms, customisable for multiple functions, and easily collapsed and reassembled when on the move.
	www.cubittartists.org.uk /heypr.html (356 words)

	synusia.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He goes on to cite examples of the areas in which this should be enacted; design for the extremely poor, medical devices, affordable shelter, and the disabled.
		These categories of people according to Papanek are the forgotten majority in design.
		Synusia, the word itself comes from a biological term that means: a subdivision of plant community consisting of all plants of the same life form.
	www.synusia.com (703 words)

	papanek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This article, http://www.co-design.co.uk/victor.htm, written by Neil Maycroft, is a fairly balanced critique of the Green Imerative, a continuance of Papanek's 1969 publication, Design for the Real World.
		Victor Papyek died in 1999, but his criticisms of the design field, particularly that Academy's of design should be forming an ethical code similar to the medical profession--one that includes design as a...
		Designers and Design educators are engaged in withdrawing this ability from all but a carefully selected group of people, through mythologizing who we are and what we do.
	mailer.fsu.edu /~gcanning/gd1/resources/hist_phil/people/papanek.html (464 words)

	MyBookPlace: Nigel's book case
		Papanek offers many instructive ways of assessing the environmental impact of various materials and manufacturing processes.
		He also, in perhaps the book's most intriguing section, discusses how one "senses" a building and how vernacular architecture maintains its close connection to the land it occupies.
		Much as Papanek expresses concern over environmental problems, he does have hope.
	www.mybookplace.com /go/page/10016/BS_969594773 (248 words)

	Design Issues - Rethinking Design Policy in the Third World - The MIT Press
		Victor Papanek, in his classic Design for the Real World, called for designers’ attention to the predicament of these societies.
		Held at the Royal College of Art, the conference represented the international design community’s general awareness of design’s responsibility in contemporary society, examining the social contribution of design at both the philosophical and practical levels.
		While Papanek proposed the idea of design for the Third World from the materiality of design, Bonsiepe construed the issue of Third World design from the political and economic relations between the First and the Third World, or in Bonsiepe’s terms using a Marxist-oriented dependency framework, central and peripheral countries.
	mitpress.mit.edu /catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=6&tid=17209 (311 words)

	Design for the Real World - book review
		This book is often tipped in design circles as one of the best overall guides to theory and practice, along with Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday Things.
		Victor Papanek takes a radically user-centred approach to design, with a very strong emphasis on social and ecological consciousness.
		Victor Papanek, Design for the Real World, London: Thames and Hudson, 1985, pp.394, ISBN 0500273588
	www.mantex.co.uk /reviews/papanek.htm (705 words)

	InfoDesign: Understanding by Design \| Profile of Victor Lombardi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Regularly, InfoDesign profiles a thought leader in the design industry, focusing on people who are identified with or show strong sensibilities to the design of information and experiences.
		Victor Lombardi is actively participating in the fields of information architecture and interaction design.
		The Green Imperative: Natural Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek.
	www.informationdesign.org /special/lombardi_profile.php (388 words)

	Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Twenty-five years after the publication of his influential book "Design For The Real World," Victor Papanek tackles environmental issues related to design, from the perspective of the designer.
		Here, environmentally responsible design is not approached via reductionist analytical methodologies; instead, the intent of the designer is examined and discussed under various topics such as the spiritual in design, vernacular design, fashion, convenience, and shared products.
		Even so, it is a useful new addition for both students of design and professional practitioners.
	www.ucalgary.ca /EVDS/designresearch/publications/intervention/1996ss/book.html (234 words)

	BookkooB: Design for the Real World - Victor Papanek
		Above you will see a list of UK book stores, along with their stock and price details for Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek.
		The honest use of materials and having an honest approach are at the heart of Papanek's fundamental laws on how anything should be designed.
		His views on ecology, recycling and the social affects of design were truely ahead of his time.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0500273588.htm (407 words)

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