Posted on Friday 20 April 2012
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Design as a global effort to solve problems begins with agency—Design’s agency and the agency of design; advocacy by and for whom; the politics and power of design. Thinking across disciplines and neighborhoods suggests that affecting real-world change demands new models for (design) practice. To
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Mass-production advertising is establishing our whole pattern of life – principles, morals, aims, aspirations, and standard of living. We must somehow get the measure of this intervention if we are to match its powerful and exciting impulses with our own.
But Today We Collect Ads – Allison and Peter Smithson, 1956
he Smithsons and Richard Hamilton collected ads. They went to their magazine stands, took their scissors, and began to collage carefully produced images meant for mass consumption.
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