Friday Lecture at Konstfack, Stockholm, on 23 November 2018, Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley on “Are We Human? The Design of the Species”

M.W.: (…) In a moment in time where you can design your children and the weather, what does it mean to design a coffee pot? Not very much.

But if you would ask questions with your work, then you have something very, very amazing to offer.

Artists, who traditionally ask questions, it‘s not so clear that they’re asking questions anymore, because art is now very, very securely positioned within the contemporary kind of neo-liberal economy, we pretty much know what an artist is, what they look like, what their work operates like, what it should sell for.

We don’t know what design is right now. And so actually I think this means that the role of a designer is much more like the role of the artist in the past. Which is why if you go into a design school it feels a lot like an art school, and if you go into an art school it feels like an advertising company.

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* full presentation:  HERE