Ph.D.
Research Project
My PhD project "Easier Living? Streamline Design and the Aestheticization of Everyday Life" is an analysis of the 1930s' Streamline Movement, which belongs to the American modernism within industrial product design. The tremendous influence of the smooth, streamlined products, I argue, have become a historical point of departure for the profound aestheticization of the private sphere and styling of everyday life in post-industrial capitalism.
The intention of my project is to contribute to the development of theoretical and methodological grounds for design historiography with an approach that draws on elements from cultural theory, more specific Cultural Studies. Furthermore it is my intention to draw the attention to the definition of the design object as placed between symbolic value and the production and regulation everyday life practice. The dissertation is placed within Danmarks Designskole's research theme, Design Theory and Method.
Stine Høholt
