Victor Papanek

<b>The history and controversial roots of the social design movement explored through the life and work of its leading pioneer Victor Papanek.</b><br><br>In <i>Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World</i> Alison Clarke explores the social design movement through the life of its leading pioneer the Austrian American designer theorist and activist Victor Papanek. Papanek's 1971 best seller <i>Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change</i> has been translated into twenty-two languages and never fallen out of print. Its politics of social design anti-corporatism and environmental sustainability have found renewed pertinence in the twenty-first century and dominate the agendas of design schools today. Drawing extensively on previously unexplored archival sources Clarke uncovers and contextualizes the movement's controversial origins and contradictions.