Name: Design's Dilemma between Art and Problem-Solving
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ISBN: 9783035627251

Das Design-Dilemma gründet auf der Trennungsgeschichte von Design und Kunst seit dem Spätmittelalter. Es beschreibt den Wandel des Designs von einer Kunst- zur Problemlösungsdisziplin. Diese große Divergenz wird einerseits begleitet von Mythen, die Gegensätze von freier Kunst und unfreiem Design, von Aura und Auraverlust oder von Distanz und Berührung konstruieren. Andererseits haben die Avantgarden die Einheit von Kunst und Design vielfach beschworen, die auch Museen oder Marketing heute wieder aufgreifen. Um das Irrlichtern des Designs zwischen Kunst und Nicht-Kunst besser zu verstehen, wird nun erstmals seine 600-jährige Ideengeschichte in den Bereichen der Kunst- und Industriegeschichte sowie der Philosophie des Pragmatismus seit etwa 1900 nachgezeichnet. Besondere Beachtung finden die Ursprungsideen und ihre Überformung durch Technizismus, Kapitalismus, Funktionalismus oder Darwinismus. Sie führen in das Design-Dilemma, das die „Haltung" seiner Akteure prägt.

The design dilemma is based on the historic separation of design and art since the late Middle Ages. It describes the transformation of design from an art discipline to a problem-solving discipline. On the one hand, this great divergence is accompanied by myths that construct opposites of free art and unfree design, of aura and loss of aura, or of distance and touch. On the other hand, the avant-gardes have often invoked the unity of art and design, which museums or marketing also take up again today. In order to better understand design's wandering between art and non-art, its 600-year history of ideas is now traced for the first time in the fields of art and industrial history as well as the philosophy of pragmatism since about 1900. Special attention is paid to the original ideas and their overformation by technicism, capitalism, functionalism or Darwinism. They create the design dilemma that shapes the "attitude" of its actors.

Design; Kunst; Geschichte; Industriedesign; Ästhetik; Designtheorie

Design; art; history; industrial design; aesthetics; design theory.

Design's Dilemma between Art and Problem-Solving

Philipp Zitzlsperger, Universität Innsbruck.

Philipp Zitzlsperger, University of Innsbruck.

The design dilemma is based on the historic separation of design and art since the late Middle Ages. It describes the transformation of design from an art discipline to a problem-solving discipline. On the one hand, this great divergence is accompanied by myths that construct opposites of free art and unfree design, of aura and loss of aura, or of distance and touch. On the other hand, the avant-gardes have often invoked the unity of art and design, which museums or marketing also take up again today. In order to better understand design's wandering between art and non-art, its 600-year history of ideas is now traced for the first time in the fields of art and industrial history as well as the philosophy of pragmatism since about 1900. Special attention is paid to the original ideas and their overformation by technicism, capitalism, functionalism or Darwinism. They create the design dilemma that shapes the "attitude" of its actors. 

The design dilemma is based on the historic separation of design and art since the late Middle Ages. It describes the transformation of desi