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Design Thread 1 – Tyranny of Taste
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A collaborative report unraveling the state of design today.
Design Thread 1 – Tyranny of Taste { Taste isn’t innocent . While taste may seem subjective and individual — one person’s trash is another’s treasure — it also reflects existing hierarchies of power. Operating within an increasingly global and connected world, designers are challenging long-established definitions of how design looks and behaves. How do we define “good” and “bad” design? How do we unlearn the Western tradition as the only way? How can we promote inclusion in a system that excludes so many? In a field that claims to be forward-thinking, designers are interrogating the rules of
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