Design became the medium and subject of reflection, protest, and criticism. As a result, sociopolitical issues increasingly moved into the designer\u2019s focus. The dark side of capitalist production modes\u2014global social dislocations and environmental consequences, for example\u2014became increasingly visible.<\/p>\n
In 1971, Austrian-American designer Victor Papanek published the book Design for the Real World, in which he pleads for a design that feels beholden not only to economic interests and strategic market considerations, but is also conscious of its role as global actor. In Papanek\u2019s view, consumer society led to a neglect of design\u2019s ethical aspects. His provocative assertion was that only few \u201cprofessions are more harmful than industrial design,\u201d which is why design must \u201cbecome an innovative, creative, and interdisciplinary instrument true to the needs of the people.\u201d3<\/p>\n
In the 1970s, designers again became aware of their social and environmental responsibility. Today\u2019s eco-design, debates about sustainability, and attempts to recycle existing materials in the development of new products trace their origins to the protests of the 1960s.<\/p>\n
A new self-conception and self-awareness also emerged at this time for designers. They no longer wanted to be agents or optimizers, but to become reflexive, critical entities reflecting on the conditions of design\u2019s creation, questioning the economic and cultural framework in which they operated, and proposing alternatives. The tentative high point of this new self-conception is Critical Design, founded around 2000 by English designers Anthony Dunne (born in 1964) and Fiona Raby (born in 1963). It doesn\u2019t manufacture any practically useful objects, but rather seeks to show \u201cthat the everyday could also be different\u2014that things can change.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Italy, Radical Design offered another answer to the crisis of classical, industry-related product design. Starting in the late 1960s, it questioned modernism\u2019s strict prevailing functionalism. In the 1980s, this rejection culminated in the programmatic \u201canything goes\u201d approach of Italy\u2019s Memphis Group and the market noncompliance of \u201cNeues Deutsches Design,\u201d which was oriented to the artistic process. Indeed, much of the design of the 1980s that took a critical stance toward industry sought a proximity to art; it wanted to elevate the designer from industrial production\u2019s anonymity. So emerged the artist-like \u201cauteur designer\u201d who, similar to the designers of the early 20th-century reform movements, developed high-quality and usually expensive products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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