Forum Room, Marjorie I. Mitchell Multimedia Center, Northwestern University Library. Directions: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/directions/

From images on CNN to global architectural practices and the products of multinational corporations, design as a product, industry and profession is inextricably linked to ever-expanding global networks of production and consumption. "Toward a History of Design in the Global Economy" presents research by five design and architectural historians and theorists whose work foregrounds this relationship in areas ranging from design reform and foreign policy in early twentieth century Germany to high tech startups in Silicon Valley today. The goals of the symposium are to advance recognition and understanding of the global nature of design practice, style and consumption historically and today, and to generate new methodologies and questions for analyzing the role of design in the global economy, and the impact of the global economy on design.
http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/arthistory/news/index.htm.
 
The symposium is part of "The World and Design", a weekend of events dedicated to architecture, design and urbanism in the global context at Northwestern University. Related events include a roundtable and screening with French documentary filmmaker Yamina Benguigui, architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen, and Northwestern University faculty on immigration and urbanism in the Seine-St. Denis region outside Paris, Saturday afternoon,
 
December 6, 2-4 pm, also in the Forum Room of the Northwestern University Library
"Toward a History of Design in the Global Economy" is sponsored by the Department of Art History at Northwestern University with generous support from the Myers Foundation and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.
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Sarah Teasley
Assistant Professor of Art History
Northwestern University
s-teasley@northwestern.edu