Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contemporary design history / Sarah Teasley -- Nostalgia / Elizabeth Guffey -- Design futures / Damon Taylor -- Transnationalism for design history : knowledge production and decolonization through East Asian design history / Yuko Kikuchi -- African fashion design and the mobilization of tradition / Victoria L. Rovine -- Urban sights : from outdoor spaces to interior streets / Gregory Marinic -- Virtual space / Rina Arya -- Interior atmosphere / Lois Weinthal -- Home truths : identity and materiality in the postwar interior / Ben Highmore -- Design of contemporary mega events / Graeme Evans -- The vibrant object / Alexa Griffith Winton -- The consumed object / Jonathan Bean -- The object of design history : lessons for the environment / Kjetil Fallan -- The fashionable object / Christopher Breward -- The written object : design journalism, consumption and literature since 1945 / Grace Lees-Maffei -- De-stablizing the scenario of design : queer/trans/gender-neutral / John Potvin -- Luxury and design : another time, another place / Jonathan Faiers -- Amateur design / Paul Atkinson -- The professionalization of interior design / Mark Taylor and Natalie Haskell -- Design education in higher education / Vicky Gunn -- Design against consumerism / Paul Micklethwaite -- Guilty pleasures : taste, design and democracy / Malcolm Quinn.