From Designed Object to Designed Context: Changes in Environmental Discourse in the First Twenty Years of the International Design Conference in Aspen

Journal of Art and Design | Vol 4, Issue 1

Table 1. airs, and corepresentation topics and speakers or contributors at the International DesignConference in Aspen, 1951-1970.

Year	Theme	Chairs	Core presentation topics	Speakers or contributors
1951	Design as a Function of Management I	Walter Paepcke	(to be found)	(to be found)
1952	Design as a Function of Management II	R.Buckminster Fuller	(to be found)	(to be found)
1953	Design as a Function of Management III	Leo Lionni	At Aspen in Colorado	Nikolaus Pevsner
1954	Planning: The Basis of Design	Will Burtin, Carl Maas, Gyorgy Kepes	(to be found)	(to be found)
1955	Crossroads: What Are the Directions of the Arts?	Will Burtin	Opening Remarks	Will Burtin
1956	Ideas on the Future of Man and Design	Will Burtin	Why Don't We Have the Cities We Need?	Max Frisch
1957	Design and Human Values	Saul Bass	Communication of Values Through Design	Richard Latham
1958	Design and Human Problems	Garrett Eckbo	How Do We See the World Today?	Hin Bredendieck
1959	Communications: The Image Speaks	Morton Goldsholl	From Primitive Disorder to Twentieth-Century	Lancelot Law Whyte
1960	The Corporation and the Designer	George D. Culler	(to be found)	(to be found)
1961	Man/Problem Solver	Herbert Pinzke	So Who Needs a Sarsen?	Richard T. Morris
1962	Environment	Ralph Eckerstrom	Perfecting the Earth	Arthur Drexler
1963	Design and the American Image Abroad	Peter Blake	Don't Just Stand There Trembling	Reyner Banham
1964	Directions and Dilemmas	Eliot Noyes	Quick and Cheesy, Cheap and Dirty	Dexter Masters
1965	The New World	George Nelson	(to be found)	(to be found)
1966	Sources and Resources of 20th Century Design	Allen Hurlburt, Mildred Constantine	All That Glitters Is Not Stainless	Reyner Banham
1967	Order and Disorder	Craig Ellwood,Jack Roberts	We Are Not Clockwork	Paul A.Weiss
1968	Dialogues: Europe/America	Reyner Banham	The Alienated Professional	Jivan Tabibian
1969	The Rest of Our Lives	Ivan Chermayeff，Henry Wolf	The Spirit of Design-Period	René Dubos
1970	Environment by Design	William Houseman	The Environmental Witch-Hunt	Jean Baudrillard