Signs of Change

post/industrialisation

agricutural society

manufacturing

slow process

North & South

work mill - moved to India/China

changes

manufacture

technological

communication

information

post industrialisation

- nation passes/dodges a phase of society

information society - knowledge economy - digital citizens

Daniel Bell

The Great Exhibition of 1851

- crystal palace - hyde park

- trade show - 'The British Way' - what Britian made

- people come from all over the world

Paris' Great Exhibition 1990

- the Eiffel Tower

- influencial - development of society

 inc. Art & Design

- lead to V+A eventually

Fordism

Henry Ford

manufacturing system - low cost goods + paid the workers decent wages - so they could buy them

(DeGrazia 2005)

Standardization

Ford doubled wages - justify paying more for non skills

Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times

 Lewis Hine 1974 - 1940

Norma Ray - film

Turner - rain steamtrain

      - captures the intrusion of industrial in the countryside

Head, Hand, Heart - arts & craft movement motto

head - creativity

hand - skill

heart - honesty

Eli Whitney - made a machine to pick seeds from cotton

- unientended consequences 

 - meant more slaves to pick cotton

James Hargreaves - spinning jenny

1856 - first synthetic dye created - by accident

Ghandi Marie

Walter Benjamin essay

'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' 1936

discusses an 'aura' possessed by an original piece of art

- lots of people have reacted to it

Duchant - Urinal

"pure" art

original piece of art has links to here it was made and where viewed

mechanical reproduction

The Slow Movement Carl Honoré

return to traditional forms of production

about trying to do everything at the right speed

quality over quantity

Miguel Adrover 2009

started with recycled fashion then changed to eco fabrics

Kate Malone

Gareth Neal

- wood core material

ghost of furniture past 

- buying the idea of the artist

Daniel Bell

                                         then

economy produces goods ------> provides services

knowledge becomes valid form of capital producing ideas - main way to grow economy

DETROIT

more value given to working with head then hands

beautiful mind

Danny Boyle - nation of ideas

Paul Romer- 

      economic growth

      which education system is best

Kevin Spacey

art + culture are critical, not only for our well being, but for the economy

        

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