Design is no longer design in the commercial context: it is marketing and technological application, and generally in a competitive market it is part of the big problem.
Iphones would be exempt if they were not controlled by market forces, because they are generally useful.
We are in a period where profit is more important that people.
We have more of a right to consider ourselves designers than them.
Design is the mediation of an interaction between an object and person, or person and person.
We are not part of the commercial mechanism.
We are more in touch with the human thing.
That is why the bracket is a nice piece of design, so is the mask hat and the camera attachment (in fact all of our stuff).
Everything we do is linked purely to the mediation of an interaction of person and object or person and person.
That's why I think "(architecture) design and the living dead would" be a good book to write... because it could have been written by those people who presented the paper to RIBA in 2008.
In 2008 a group of architects declared: "We are no longer living, but dying in our buildings" and created a manifesto called Architecture and the warm facilitation of the end featuring a series of architectural proposals that were exhibited at RIBA later that year.
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