Wednesday, January 11, 2006
JAN 11: DESIGN MATTERS (AND IS VERY INTERESTING) at PDC
"DESIGN MATTERS" Conversation Series continues Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 7 PM.
Location: Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA.
Admission: $12; students and seniors, $5 MOCAD members, free.
Title: "WHERE STUFF COMES FROM"
A toaster is not just a toaster, but a map to the world according to Harvey Molotch, author of the award-winning “Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and May Other Things Come to Be As They Are” (Routledge, 2003). In this conversation, the second of the Museum of California Design’s series DESIGN MATTERS, Molotch, a particularly perceptive observer, will explore the ways in which the look, the touch, and the mechanics of everyday products reflect our culture and our economy. He believes that if we want more socially and environmentally benign products, we need to understand our current product system in order for a new design politics to result in a better world. Bill Stern, director of the Museum of California Design, will moderate the discussion.
Harvey Molotch is Director of the Program in Metropolitan Studies and Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University and was Professor of Sociology and Chair of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has a BA in Philosophy from the University of Michigan and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago. Among Molotch’s numerous awards is the 2003 Lifetime Career Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association (Urban & Community Studies Section).
Location: Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA.
Admission: $12; students and seniors, $5 MOCAD members, free.
Title: "WHERE STUFF COMES FROM"
A toaster is not just a toaster, but a map to the world according to Harvey Molotch, author of the award-winning “Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and May Other Things Come to Be As They Are” (Routledge, 2003). In this conversation, the second of the Museum of California Design’s series DESIGN MATTERS, Molotch, a particularly perceptive observer, will explore the ways in which the look, the touch, and the mechanics of everyday products reflect our culture and our economy. He believes that if we want more socially and environmentally benign products, we need to understand our current product system in order for a new design politics to result in a better world. Bill Stern, director of the Museum of California Design, will moderate the discussion.
Harvey Molotch is Director of the Program in Metropolitan Studies and Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University and was Professor of Sociology and Chair of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has a BA in Philosophy from the University of Michigan and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago. Among Molotch’s numerous awards is the 2003 Lifetime Career Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association (Urban & Community Studies Section).
For more information about the DESIGN MATTERS conversation series log on to www.mocad.org or call 323.930.2700. This series is sponsored by Super-Max® Corporation.
