Sunday, April 25, 2010

Your turn #12

 New Acropolis Museum, by Bernard Tschumi (Athens, Greece).

As you've sen, design is an important medium of communication which expresses the values of the system within which it functions. Design inevitably perpetuates the ideology of the system it serves. In the 21st century the system is represented by the capitalist economic framework of mass production and mass consumption. This is less a result of design's intrinsic characteristics than of its necessary rapport with the cultural system that sustains it.

What's your thought? This is the last assignment for comments. Go ahead!