Friday 9 January 2009

 

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Peter Hoskin

Pete suggests


Man as machine

Wednesday, 24th September 2008

Cold War Modern: Design 1945–1970
V&A, until 11 January 2009

What this depressing exhibition emphasises is how wildly divorced is the supposed cutting-edge of cultural innovation (and political manipulation) from the lives of ordinary people. We need to re-humanise society, which means taking responsibility for our acts, and making the administrators of our lives accountable to us. A house should not be a machine for living in but a home. Technological innovation must not be allowed to dominate otherwise empty lives. We must re-investigate meaning. Art can do this, but not design. Design is only the outward manifestation of cultural fashion. We need a bit more than that.

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