A tribute to Jane Addams, Cité du Design, Saint-Etienne

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A tribute to Jane Addams, Cité du Design, Saint-Etienne

2012

”Jane Addams suggests a less conventional and anecdotal reading of design according to Pevsner. Design serves another manner of thinking that coins drives their attention to the famous Hull-House of Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1931., the thirteen buildings in Chicago in 1889 to accomodate new arrivals and provide them with a social, cultural and political education. At the request of the neigbouring communities, Hull-House's residents helped immigrants to successfully integrate into American society. They supported  them in acquiring the knowledge required for a dayly life : the English language, American history and institutions not to mention cooking and sewing. matali crasset took a new look at Addam's plan that places accommodation for the worse-off alongside centres of typhoid infection, the effect of which was to raise politicians awarness concerning the unhealthy nature of urban areas reserved for deprived populations. In this way she encourages politicians to commit to modernization and to recognize the distribution of municipal housing. We can acknowledge taht is in this way, nothing wriiten about design can ignore the role of women, for a long time justified in their involuntary confinement to the private sphere, it is essential to remember that this account may be suspected of suffering from partiality, and that alongside Catharine Beecher, inventor of the “domestic economy”, exhubmed by Siegfried Giedion, matali crasset with her work designed for the show replaced Jane Addams” Alexandra Midal

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