SWEDISH DESIGN: AN ETHNOGRAPHY

Book ID/图书代码： 03360014B74393

English Summary/英文概要： Swedish designers are noted for producing distinctive and elegant forms; their furniture and household goods have an especially loyal following around the world. Design in Sweden has more than just an aesthetic component, however. Since at least the late nineteenth century, Swedish politicians and social planners have viewed design as a means for advocating and enacting social change and pushing for a more egalitarian social organization. In this book, Keith M. Murphy examines the special relationship between politics and design in Sweden, revealing in particular the cultural meanings this relationship holds for Swedish society.

Over the course of fourteen months of research in Stockholm and at other sites, Murphy conducted in-depth interviews with various players involved in the Swedish design industry—designers, design instructors, government officials, artists, and curators—and observed several different design collectives in action. He found that, for Swedes, design is never socially or politically neutral. Even for common objects like furniture and other household goods, design can be labeled “responsible,” “democratic,” or “ethical”— descriptors that all neatly resonate with the traditional moral tones of Swedish social democracy. Murphy also considers the example of Ikea and its power to politicize perceptions of the everyday world.

More broadly, Swedish Design serves as a model for an anthropological approach to the study of design practice, one that accounts for the various ways in which order is purposefully and meaningfully imposed by designers on the domains of human life, and the consequences those impositions have on the social worlds in which they are embedded.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一直以来，瑞典的设计师们都因创造出独一无二的优雅物品而名闻于世：他们的家居用品在全世界都有着忠实的粉丝群体。然而“瑞典制造”并不仅仅是美学的代名词。因为至少在19世纪末，瑞典的政客们和社会规划者们就已经预见，设计将成为一种能够有助于倡导和执行社会变革并推动社会组织更加趋于平等的途径。在本书中，吉斯•M•墨菲探究了瑞典的政治与设计之间的特殊关系，尤其揭示了这种关系对于瑞典社会的文化含义。经过在斯德哥尔摩及其他地区的长达14个月的调查研究，墨菲对瑞典设计师行业中的多名相关人员进行了深入的采访---设计师、设计指导、政府官员、艺术家以及管理者等，并对几个不同的设计团队进行了观察研究。他发现对于瑞典人而言，不论是从社会角度还是政治角度而言，设计从来都不是中立的。即便是像家具这样的寻常家居用品，设计背后都可能被贴上诸如“责任”“民主”或是“道德”的标签----所有的叙词都会与瑞典社会民主的传统道德说辞完美的产生共鸣。墨菲同样认为宜家就是一个完美的典范，从其对于日常生活世界中政治观念的巨大影响力就可知一二。

从更为宽泛的角度来看的话，《瑞典设计》还是研究设计的一种人类学途径和方法，它代表了各种各样的方式，在这些方式中，设计师们有目的地将有意义的目的加诸于人类生活的主要领域之中，而这样的一种赋予意义的方式所产生的结果便是他们也同样对其所在的社会世界产生影响。（DC）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 吉斯•M•墨菲是加利福尼亚大学尔湾分校的一名人类学副教授。他著有并参与编写了许多出版在《人类学理论》上的文章作品，并参与编写了《走近意志的人类学》（斯坦福）。他与哥德堡大学的研究者们一同参与了一个有关于建筑评论中的社会动力的项目研究。此外，作者还参与了雪城大学的一个跨学科设计团队，进行联合研究。

Keith M. Murphy is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author or co-author of articles published in Anthropological Theory and Semiotica, and the co-editor of Toward an Anthropology of the Will (Standford).

He is involved in a collaborative project with researchers from the University of Gothenburg on the social dynamics involved in architecturalcritiques. He has worked as Research Collaborator with COLAB, an interdisciplinary design collective based at Syracuse University.

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