Designing the Olympics : representation, participation, contestation
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Designing the Olympics : representation, participation, contestation
AUTHOR:
Traganou, Jilly, 1966-
ISBN:
9780415874908
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xvi, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
SERIES:
Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 61
Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 61.
SERIES_TITLE:
Routledge research in sport, culture and society ;
ABSTRACT:
Section 1. Representation. Through the lens of graphic design: Nationalism, internationalism, and universalism in the Tokyo 1964 design program -- The Athens Olympic sports complex and national narratives in twenty-first-century Greece: Representation and beyond -- Section 2. Participation. "Not for a nation, but for the people": London 2012 brand design as a new paradigm of Olympic design -- Opposing the Olympic City: Designerly ways of dissenting -- Section 3. Contestation. What if ...?: A speculative topography of potential Olympic futures.
SUBJECT:
| Olympics. |
| Olympics -- Social aspects. |
| Olympics -- Buildings -- Design and construction. |
| Design -- Social aspects. |
| Nationalism and sports. |
| Olympic Games (18th : 1964 : Tokyo, Japan) |
| Olympic Games (28th : 2004 : Athens, Greece) |
| Olympic Games (30th : 2012 : London, England) |
BIBSUMMARY:
Section 1. Representation. Through the lens of graphic design: Nationalism, internationalism, and universalism in the Tokyo 1964 design program -- The Athens Olympic sports complex and national narratives in twenty-first-century Greece: Representation and beyond -- Section 2. Participation. "Not for a nation, but for the people": London 2012 brand design as a new paradigm of Olympic design -- Opposing the Olympic City: Designerly ways of dissenting -- Section 3. Contestation. What if ...?: A speculative topography of potential Olympic futures.